. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. COUNTERPOINT. J lis difcordsby fuppofition are oidy appoggiaturas, and need no notice in figuring a bafe. Rameau's chords by fuppofi- tion are different things. The comparing the feveral kinds of cadences to breathing places as it were in mafic, to punctuation or flops in literature, is juft and happy. Pret. p. iv. Modulation is fo much extended, and indeed now become fo unlimited, that Dr. Pepufch's fober, relative, and ec- clefiailical modulation, which by having fo long {tidied the
. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. COUNTERPOINT. J lis difcordsby fuppofition are oidy appoggiaturas, and need no notice in figuring a bafe. Rameau's chords by fuppofi- tion are different things. The comparing the feveral kinds of cadences to breathing places as it were in mafic, to punctuation or flops in literature, is juft and happy. Pret. p. iv. Modulation is fo much extended, and indeed now become fo unlimited, that Dr. Pepufch's fober, relative, and ec- clefiailical modulation, which by having fo long {tidied the compolitions of celebrated and curious old contrapuntills, narrowed his ideas fo much, that lie regarded even Handel as an innovator. So that his chap. vii. p. 38, will cany a Undent but a little way on the myftic and difficult road of modulation. Padre Martini's inflrtntions are excellent, as far as they go ; but the compofitions which he gives in illuilration be- ing all rigidly formed on the ecclcfialhcal modes and canto fcrmo, few of them are applicable to fecular mufic of the prefent times. We (hall, however, give his authority for fome of the rules la'd down in this article [counterpoint), and occalionally quote him. " Regole del Contrappunto pratico di Nicola Sala Napo- litano, Primo Maellro nel reale Confervatorio della Pieta de Torchini, Napoli," 17,,.)-. This is the laft capital work publilhed in Italy, on the fubject of compolition. The au- thor, who died in 1795, had been 40 years principal mafter of the confervatorio of la PielH, and was the fchclar and fucctfTor of Durante. During the long fcries of years in which he had been inftrutting the mulical Undents in that celebrated feminary, he formed this regular fyftem of coun- terpoint, which is printed at the royal prefs in two huge folio volumes, as large as De Lille's maps ; admirably engraved, aud containing a regular feries of well digefted examples of compolition of the moll clear, neat, and correct
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