The Alliance of Musick, Poetry and Oratory: Under the Head of Poetry is Considered the Alliance and Nature of the Epic and Dramatic Poem, as it Exists in the Iliad, Æneid, and Paradise Lost |
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... especially of the human species , the most agreeable , are formed by the mouth opened wide , and by the lips , which shape them , closing with rotundity in the lower tones , but open in the upper , with rotundity , expressed by the ...
... especially of the human species , the most agreeable , are formed by the mouth opened wide , and by the lips , which shape them , closing with rotundity in the lower tones , but open in the upper , with rotundity , expressed by the ...
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... especially in closes or cadencies . The common Chords in Musick . If we would know the Creator , admire his wisdom and power , and love him for his goodness , we must search deeply into D 3 his his works , the divers forms and qualities ...
... especially in closes or cadencies . The common Chords in Musick . If we would know the Creator , admire his wisdom and power , and love him for his goodness , we must search deeply into D 3 his his works , the divers forms and qualities ...
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... This distinction or plurality and unity runs through all nature . Thus far you have a short and plain view of musick , its mere elements and fimple fimple requifites , especially those of finging with agreeable founds 38 MUSICK .
... This distinction or plurality and unity runs through all nature . Thus far you have a short and plain view of musick , its mere elements and fimple fimple requifites , especially those of finging with agreeable founds 38 MUSICK .
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... especially those of finging with agreeable founds , and with variety of height , depth and measure , in melody and harmony . The effects of pleasing sounds are great , and very fenfibly felt even naked and bare , conveyed to the ear by ...
... especially those of finging with agreeable founds , and with variety of height , depth and measure , in melody and harmony . The effects of pleasing sounds are great , and very fenfibly felt even naked and bare , conveyed to the ear by ...
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... especially semibreves and minims , should be struck plain and firm , like one who walks and marches well , with his foot fet on the ground and lifted up smoothly , without any shuffling and stamping . The best method perhaps of ...
... especially semibreves and minims , should be struck plain and firm , like one who walks and marches well , with his foot fet on the ground and lifted up smoothly , without any shuffling and stamping . The best method perhaps of ...
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