. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. And by giving to thefe founds a regular diatonic prcg Icale without femitones: CHINESE MUSIC. that" our harmony i., only a G thic an 1 baibarous invention, and fifths by the Abbe 'i favourite triple trogrrflmh â .⢠c fliou'd never have thought of, if we bad been Or thic feries of p i however, the ancient Cbmeie .more fenlible to the true beauties of the art, and to mufic tiled only five, beginning at F, the fundamental of tin. r truly natural," almoll ceafes to be a
. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. And by giving to thefe founds a regular diatonic prcg Icale without femitones: CHINESE MUSIC. that" our harmony i., only a G thic an 1 baibarous invention, and fifths by the Abbe 'i favourite triple trogrrflmh â .⢠c fliou'd never have thought of, if we bad been Or thic feries of p i however, the ancient Cbmeie .more fenlible to the true beauties of the art, and to mufic tiled only five, beginning at F, the fundamental of tin. r truly natural," almoll ceafes to be a paradox. fyttetn, which produced the following treble fcah We Iliad now endeavour to give a fynopfis of the ancient way, by beginning the top or bottom of their great J.:, mufical tyllcm of the Chiucfe, which, if it chronology w as each did met arrangement of founds is called, jilt, mult have preceded every other regular fyllem upon earth. The fyflem of Chiucfe mufic bear? date from the beginning of the monarchy, at leaft 26;- years before th< ( era ; a proof, according to Pere Amiot, that the Chinefe are the original authors, of the fyftem of mufic, which has I, en fo Ion? known in their country; and if it has been alt-red and abridged in later age;, it mull have been from the corruption and decay of the firll principles upon it was founded ; and from ito being mixed and united V ith \ tin and abfurd fciences, fuch as divination by numbers, and juiicia: a Urology, that men of true fcience have abandoned. Tne C'niiKle have had, at every period of their hiftory, ;n untv rial fyllem, united in all its points, to which every thing was connected and referred, as well in polities, as pin - lies and morality. To this fyllem they have wilhed, in fome way or other, to make the rules of mufic accord as well as thofe of other fciences, connected with their religious and civil eltablilhuients. And Pere Amiot, being prelTcd to declare what were the peculiar excellencies of the p
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