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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... hath two sharps , cand f ; Elami or e four sharps , g , c , d , and f ; lastly , f hath one flat , namely , b . If the keys are confidered critically and more minutely , then the flat are e with one sharp f ; fsharp with two other ...
... hath two sharps , cand f ; Elami or e four sharps , g , c , d , and f ; lastly , f hath one flat , namely , b . If the keys are confidered critically and more minutely , then the flat are e with one sharp f ; fsharp with two other ...
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... hath writ most of his songs with graces , according to the taste of his time , and fo hath Weldon his anthems . The business of a composer is to give the air and expression in plain notes , who goes out of his province when he writes ...
... hath writ most of his songs with graces , according to the taste of his time , and fo hath Weldon his anthems . The business of a composer is to give the air and expression in plain notes , who goes out of his province when he writes ...
Page 74
... hath this art to any degree , is said to have a good throat and fine volubility ; but he who is void of it , to have no throat , and consequently is no finger , however he may value himself for his knowledge of notes and harmony . The ...
... hath this art to any degree , is said to have a good throat and fine volubility ; but he who is void of it , to have no throat , and consequently is no finger , however he may value himself for his knowledge of notes and harmony . The ...
Page 81
... hath more or less its tune or peculiar tone ; and why should we imagine the an- cient languages had not ? That accents were in use from the ear- liest ages in Greek , Latin and Hebrew , must be admitted in the very nature of things ...
... hath more or less its tune or peculiar tone ; and why should we imagine the an- cient languages had not ? That accents were in use from the ear- liest ages in Greek , Latin and Hebrew , must be admitted in the very nature of things ...
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... hath great influence in every language , varying the quantity of fyllables by dropping a conso- nant , and by changing a long vowel into a short , and a short into a long , even in the fame word , or in a derivative and compound ...
... hath great influence in every language , varying the quantity of fyllables by dropping a conso- nant , and by changing a long vowel into a short , and a short into a long , even in the fame word , or in a derivative and compound ...
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