A Preparation to the Psalter . ll O/Singing j when and by whom inftituted in thepublicke worjhip ofGodjboth amonglcwcsandChxi-f ii an s: and what power or operation it hath. IV. Whether Muficall Infiruments be neceffary in diuineSeruice; what their Muficke ought to be. ihe Abufesthat are to be auoided; and^hat regard is to be had tothofe Tunes, which haue beene dedicated to God. V. Of the Mufickeywhicb Vcrfc hath naturally in itfelfe:andoj-theMuficallInfirumentsnjfedin holy exerci- fes. Intend not here to vndertake the praifc ofMupckf)al-though it be a fubieft meriting a Treatifc ; nor will Ia
A Preparation to the Psalter . ll O/Singing j when and by whom inftituted in thepublicke worjhip ofGodjboth amonglcwcsandChxi-f ii an s: and what power or operation it hath. IV. Whether Muficall Infiruments be neceffary in diuineSeruice; what their Muficke ought to be. ihe Abufesthat are to be auoided; and^hat regard is to be had tothofe Tunes, which haue beene dedicated to God. V. Of the Mufickeywhicb Vcrfc hath naturally in itfelfe:andoj-theMuficallInfirumentsnjfedin holy exerci- fes. Intend not here to vndertake the praifc ofMupckf)al-though it be a fubieft meriting a Treatifc ; nor will Iaduenture to find out the Tunes, to which the Pfalmeswere aunciently fung among the Iewes. For, Mufickedoth euery day fo change, euen among vs of the fameNation, that it is not eafic to lay, what it was a fewe Ages fince: Butthat which was in vfe during thofe older times of the world, is altoge-ther fo vnknownc vnto vs, that there is nothing extant, whereby weemay fo much as probably ghcfTc at it. Orifthcrchadbecnefom- H 4 what. i +i .-=?: 2o A Preparation to the Pjalter. Chap. 11 Pint. II. x Cor. what written to exprefle it,1 doubt -whether any man could at this dayhaue beene capable of their way of expreflion. For who is able after fomany hundred of years, and after lb many alterations,both in the Mti-fickev. felfe, and the tearmes thereof, to reuiue the forgotten melodievfedbyaNationthatisfomuchaftrangervnto vs and our Tongue,that we arc now to feeke( and likely to be for euer vncertaine) whe-ther many of the words prefixed before thefe facred Odes, doe figmfiefomewhat concerning the Tune, the Infirwnent; or neither, or both >Nay, though we come vnto Times more neere vs, and looke into theMufckg of thofe Nations which haue left farre more writings and mo-numents of what they haue formerly had; we fhall I feare, haue muchadoe to ayme aright at their meanings. Who is fo skilfull, as that hecan now truely diftinguifh betweene the Doricke^oljcke^nd IonickeM
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