. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. B O N O N C 1 N r. ^orkentitleu â¢' II Muilco Praftico," or the Practical Mn- fjcian, dedicated to the empeior Leopold, in thin quarto. This trcatife contains many uleful precepts and examples of conipoiition ; but is neither fo accurate as to be implicitly followed, nor fo ample as to fiipply all the wants of a mufical ftudent of the prefeiit times. Page i8, he fpeaks of a canon, in his opera terza, for fifteen hundred and ninety-two voices, or ilx hundred and forty-eight
. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. B O N O N C 1 N r. ^orkentitleu â¢' II Muilco Praftico," or the Practical Mn- fjcian, dedicated to the empeior Leopold, in thin quarto. This trcatife contains many uleful precepts and examples of conipoiition ; but is neither fo accurate as to be implicitly followed, nor fo ample as to fiipply all the wants of a mufical ftudent of the prefeiit times. Page i8, he fpeaks of a canon, in his opera terza, for fifteen hundred and ninety-two voices, or ilx hundred and forty-eight ; which, on account ot [he difficulty of finding fuch a number of fingers, afiembled together, he has reduced to twenty-two. In the hiftorical pirt of tliis traft, his knowledge is not very profound, or reading extenfive; and the authors he cites, in fupport of h:s information, give it no additional weight. The examples lie has given of the ufc of the fecond, page 64, are, in many inllances, erroneous, and fuch as can be found in the works of no good contrapuntiil of the lall century. The fe- cond is Kot only confounded with the ninth by this author, page 64, but improperly prepared and This difcord of the fecond feems to require one of the parts to ftationary, till the fufponded harmony is completed; but Bononcini often puts botli parts in motion. In his ex- ample of counterpoint upon a plain fong,page 76, there are oth'jr dilallowancts. ^gSiSliS Much explanation and inflruction are given for the eccle- fiadica] modes, but none of the keys, ufed in fecular muficj arc defined or afcertained. Bononcini, John, the celebrated opera compofer and rival of Handel, was the fon of Gio. Maria Bononcini, of Bo- logna, the fubjeft of the preceding article. He firfl arrived in England in J720, on the ellablilnment of our famous " Corporation of the Royal Academy of Mufic," under the aufpicesof king George I. and the principal nobility and gentry in the kin
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