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GUIDETTI, GIOVANNI DOMENICO. Directorium chori ad usum omnium ecclesiarum cathedralium et collegiatarum. [8], 737, [3] pages. Text and music printed in red and black. 8vo, 156x109 mm, old vellum boards with ink spine title; occasional browning, scattered light foxing, few gatherings dampstained, clean tear in 2G4. Rome: Andrea Fei for Giovanni Domenico Franzini, 1642
Ninth(?) edition of Guidetti's 1582 chant handbook. "His publications of plainsong are the most complete and authoritative manuals of their kind from the period following the Council of Trent. The chief one is the Directorium chori"--New Grove VII, 802.
