. A compendium: or, introduction to practical music. In five parts. ... By Christopher Sympson . HO MAS KEN, D. D. late LordBifhop of Bath and WeGs, Price is. or lof. aDozen to thofe who give them away. Where may he had i I. A Short Account of the Life of J^ 2s. 6d. IL The Works of-Dr. Four Vols. OBavo; confiding of Divine by JV, HAWKINS, Efq; The whole Book of Pfalm-Tunes in Four Partsand the Names of the feveral Authors who composedthem. Being the Tunes as were^ and are generallySung in England, Scotland, Wales^ Germany, Italy,Frame, and the Netherlands, &c.
. A compendium: or, introduction to practical music. In five parts. ... By Christopher Sympson . HO MAS KEN, D. D. late LordBifhop of Bath and WeGs, Price is. or lof. aDozen to thofe who give them away. Where may he had i I. A Short Account of the Life of J^ 2s. 6d. IL The Works of-Dr. Four Vols. OBavo; confiding of Divine by JV, HAWKINS, Efq; The whole Book of Pfalm-Tunes in Four Partsand the Names of the feveral Authors who composedthem. Being the Tunes as were^ and are generallySung in England, Scotland, Wales^ Germany, Italy,Frame, and the Netherlands, &c. With the ufualHymns and Spiritual Songs. Colleded by fhomaiRaven/croft, Batchelor of Mufic. Newly done in afair large Charader: The whole being drawn outin Schore, the Cantus, or Upper-part, being put inthe Treble Cliff, andCorreded from feveral grofs Er-rors in the former Edition. To which is added, anHiftorical Account of Mufic in general, and of itsDivine and Civil Ufes j Colleded from feveralAuthors. Being proper to be Bound up eitherwith the ^, or New Verfions of the Pfalras. I). COMPENDIUM O F Praaical MUSIC. The Firft the Rudiments £>/Sokg, § 1. Of the Scale ^/MUSICK. THE End and Office of the Scal e ofMusic, is to fhew the Degrees bywhich a Voice Natural or Artificialmay either afcend or defcend. ThefeDegrees are numbred by Sevens. Tofpeak of the Myftery of that Number, were todeviate from the Bufinefs in hand. Let it fufEcethat Music may be taught by any names ofthings, fo the number of Seven be obfer/d in Af-cend ing or Defcending by degites. Our CorHmon Scale, to mark or diflinguifhthofe^even Degrees, makes ufe of the fame feven Let- B ters y- rf^ ^ 2 J Com-^enditim ofMusic, ters which in the Kalendev denote the feven Daysof the Week: ^viz. A, B, C, D, E,P, G, afcer whichMlow A, By C, &c. over again, fo often repeatedas the Compafs of Music doch require. The Or-der of thofe Letters is fuch as you fee in the ad-joined Scale; to wit, m Afcending we
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