A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Primer

by George Grove

PRIMER—from primus, first—a first or elementary book for beginners. The first of Messrs. Novello & Co's. Music Primers, edited by Dr. Stainer, was issued Aug. 1, 1877, and the following have appeared to Dec. 31, 1880:—Pianoforte (Pauer), Rudiments of Music (Cummings), Organ (Stainer), Harmonium (King Hall), Singing (Randegger), Speech in Song (Ellis), Musical Forms (Pauer), Harmony (Stainer), Counterpoint (Bridge), Fugue (Higgs), Scientific Basis of Music (Stone), Church-Choir Training (Troutbeck), Plain Song (Helmore), Instrumentation (Prout), Elements of the Beautiful in Music (Pauer), The Violin (Berthold Tours), Tonic Sol-fa (J. Curwen), Lancashire Sol-fa (Greenwood), Composition (Stainer), Musical Terms (Stainer and Barrett).

That on Pianoforte Playing by Mr. Franklin Taylor forms one of Messrs. Macmillan's series of Shilling Primers, and was issued Sept. 26, 1877. (Published in German by J.J.Weber, Leipzig.)

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