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(FREEMASONRY.) La Lire Maçonne; ou, Recueil de Chansons des Francs-Maçons. Revu, corrigé, mis dans un Nouvel Ordre, & augmenté de Quantité de Chansons, qui n'avoient point encore paru, par les Frères de Vignoles et Du Bois, avec les Airs notés, mis sur la Bonne Clef, tant pour le Chant que pour le Violon & la Flute. Nouvelle Édition. French and Dutch text. [24], xvi, 536 pages. Lettrpress music in text throughout. 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, top of spine chipped. The Hague: R. van Laak, 1787
"Much of the music actually used in masonic lodges seems to have taken the form of strophic songs in the style of the French 'Caveau' (such as street songs, songs from popular or comic opera, dances and hymns) as well as hymns specially composed for masonic use. Many anthologies were published in various countries in the 18th and early 19th centuries . . . the popular La lire maçonne (The Hague, 1766; reprinted four times in 30 years) by Vignoles and Dubois . . . contained many contrafacta of airs from operas by Campra and Rousseau, as well as the first version of God Save the King to be printed on the continent"--New Grove XVI, 39.
