The praise of musicke wherein besides the antiquitie, dignitie, delectation, & vse thereof in ciuill matters, is also declared the sober and lawfull vse of the same in the congregation and church of God.

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The praise of musicke wherein besides the antiquitie, dignitie, delectation, & vse thereof in ciuill matters, is also declared the sober and lawfull vse of the same in the congregation and church of God.

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Printed at Oxenford :: By Ioseph Barnes printer to the Vniuersitie,

anno 1586.

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Subject terms

Music -- Early works to 1800.

Music in churches -- Early works to 1800.

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"The praise of musicke wherein besides the antiquitie, dignitie, delectation, & vse thereof in ciuill matters, is also declared the sober and lawfull vse of the same in the congregation and church of God." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09922.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR WALTER RAWLEY KNIGHT.
• The preface to the Reader.
• THE ANTIQVI∣TIE AND ORIGINAL OF MVSICKE: FIRST GE∣nerally, then more particular∣lie set downe. CHAPTER I.
• THE DIGNITIE OF MVSICKE PROVED BOTH by the rewardes and practise of many and most excellent men. Chap. 2.
• THE SVAVITIE OF MVSICKE. CHAP. III.
• THE EFFECTS AND O∣PERATION OF MV∣SICKE. Chap. 4.
• THE NECESSITIE OF MVSICKE. CHAP. V.
• THE VSE OF MVSICK GENERALLIE IN THE course of our life. CHAP. VI.
• THE PARTICVLER VSE OF MVSICKE IN CI∣uill matters, especially in sacrifi∣ces, feasts, mariages and Burials. CHAP. VII.
• THE PARTICVLER VSE of musicke in warlike matters. CHAP. VIII.
• THE LAVVFVL VSE OF MVSICKE IN THE CHVRCH confirmed by the practise of the church. CHAP. IX.
• THE LAVVFVLL VSE OF CHVRCH MVSICKE proued by authorities out of the Doctours. CHAP. X.
• Sentences of the Scripture, for the vse of Church Musick. Chap. 11.
• A REFVTATION OF OBIECTIONS AGAINST the lawful vse of Musicke in the Church. CHAP. XII.