Playford, John
(1623–1686)
JOHN PLAYFORDPLAYFORD, JOHNJOHN PLAYFORD [* 1623-† 1686] John Playford, a prominent London music publisher, compiled A Breefe Introduction to the Skill of Musick (1654), borrowing freely from writings by many of England's best-known theorists. His sources were acknowledged whenever possible, and one treatise, Thomas CAMPION's A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counter-point [ca. 1612-14], was incorporated in toto (with annotations and minor changes by SIMPSON) as »The Art of Setting or…