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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10857	The schoole of musicke wherein is taught, the perfect method, of true fingering of the lute, pandora, orpharion, and viol de gamba; with most infallible generall rules, both easie and delightfull. Also, a method, how you may be your owne instructer for prick-song, by the help of your lute, without any other teacher: with lessons of all sorts, for your further and better instruction. Newly composed by Thomas Robinson, lutenist.	Robinson, Thomas, fl. 1589-1609.	1603 (1603)	STC 21128; ESTC S101591	14,879	58

In God reioyce With Instrument and voyce THE SCHOOLE OF MVSICKE WHEREIN IS TAVGHT THE PERFECT METHOD OF TRVE FINGEring of the Lute Pandora Orpharion and Uiol de Gamba with most infallible generall rules both easie and delightfull Also a method how you may be your owne instructer for Prick-song by the help of your Lute without any other teacher with lessons of all sorts for your further and better instruction Newly composed by Thomas Robinson Lutenist LONDON Printed by Tho. Este for Simon Waterson dwelling at the signe of the Crowne in Paules Church-yard 1603. TO THE RIGHT VERTVOVS HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE KING IAMES OVR DRED SOVERAIGNE BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. long life happie daies and most prosperous raigne AS there is not any thing in this world more acceptable vnto God most gracious Soueraigne then a contrite heart so I presume that there is not any thing in this world next to the loue of God more acceptable vnto your Majestie then a true and loyall subject Thus vsing this perswasion for a sure argument of your Majesties gracious acceptance I presume to manifest my selfe a most true and loyall subject vnto your Majestie In token whereof I haue gathered the chiefe of my treasurie the which in most humble and obedient manner I present vnto your Highnesse beseeching your Highnesse not to mislike your subject for the subject sith it is for the good of all your Majesties louing subjects The Art is deuine the Jnstrument laudable my Meaning good my Skill drownde in the depth of Catoes wordes who saith Nec te collaudes nec te culpaueris ipse And yet I can say for my selfe that once I was thought in Denmarke at Elsanure the fittest to instruct your Majesties Queene our most gracious Ladie and Mistres Thus prostrating my selfe at your Majesties feet incessantlie crauing pardon for my bold attempt I rest Restles in praier for your Graces welfare both now and euer Your Majesties most loyall and obedient subject Thomas Robinson To the Reader RIght courteous Gentlemen and gentle Readers your fauourable acceptance of my first fruits from idlenesse hath eccited mee further to congratulate your Musicall endeauours And in my conceit I can no way better fit your good and willing mindes then in shewing you how you may very soone and very perfectly instruct your selues to play vpon your best beloued instrument the Lute also the Orpharion Pandora and Viol de Gamba any lesson if it bee not too too trickified at the first sight But bee it as it bee may you shall haue rules of reason to ouer-rule vnreasonable odd Cratchets giueing you to vnderstand that what is beyond the true course of Nature must needes bee without all compasse of Art and withall nothing out-runneth Nature but Follie so much for that Also for example sake I haue set some lessons of all sorts whereof some being old I was requested to set them new after my fashion some new out of the fat some neither very new nor very old but yet all mine owne setting and the most of them mine owne inuention But Gentlemen once more I will make you promise that if these Masterlike rules and Scholerlike lessons doe but any whit content you I will come forth With Cracke mee this Nut I meane onely lessons for one two and three Lutes and some with ditties wherein I will striue either for euer to winne your fauours or starue in the dole of your disgrace Vale. More for you than for him-selfe Thomas Robinson 〈…〉 and Violl de Gamba Dialogue wise betwixt a Knight who hath children to be taught and Timotheus that should teach them KNIGHT YOV are hartelie welcome into the countrie and the better welcome for that you come at the first sending for for it is an old saying that cunning men are curious especiallie Musitions TIMOTHEVS Sir if I had thought I should not haue beene welcome you might haue thought me vnwise to haue taken all this paines againe it was my promise to instruct your children and am readie at your pleasure but I pray you why should Musitions bee more curious then others Kni. In keeping your promise you haue done well and so well as I can I will answere your demaund in mine opinion I think it impossible to be a good Musition except a man be seene in all the seauen liberall Sciences for I know many great clarkes in Diuinitie Phisicke Law Philosophie c. that haue small or no knowledge at all in Musick nay some that quite reiect it Now sith it behoueth a good Musition to bee somewhat seene in all Arts I conclude that this all with the help of an od crotchet is the reason why Musitions are so curious Tim. Trulie sir your concluding all is both short sharp how be it I must graunt you this that it is behouefull a Musition that would bee excellent to be seene in all or the most part of the seauen liberall Arts and so neere as I can I will shew you which and how necessarie those are that a Musition ought not to be ignorant off First hee must be a diuine that is he must be diuinelie giuen he must aboue all things serue God that God may blesse him in all his good indeuoures hee must read the scriptures for it is the fountaine of all knowledge it teacheth the diuine harmonie of the soule of man for Musicke is none other then a perfect harmonie whose diuinitie is seene in the perfectnesse of his proportions as his vnison sheweth the vnitie from whence all other concords discords consonancies or others whatsoeuer springeth next his vnitie his third which is the perfectest concord that is in all Musicke representeth the perfect most holie Trinitie his fift the most perfect consonance in all Musicke for that it is the verie essence of all concords representeth the perfection of that most perfect number of fiue which made the perfect atonement betweene God and man His eight which as it is but as his vnison representeth his Alpha and Omega as what is aboue his eight is but as a repetition as from his vnison as it were a new beginning so it sheweth our returne from whence we came as it were in notes of Musicke in a long or short time sweet or sowre composition and thus I hope without offence to that most holie Alpha and Omega I conclude the necessitie of diuinitie in a Musition Now that a Musition should bee a Phisition I see no such necessitie But that Musicke is Phisical it is plainlie seene by those maladies it cureth As it cureth melancholie it much preuaileth against madnesse If a man be in paines of the gout of any wound or of the head it much mittigateth the furie therof and it is said that Musicke hath a salue for euerie sore But of necessitie a Musition must be a perfect Arethmatition for that Musicke consisteth altogether of true number and proportion and thus