when he wis very young, and indeed while he was engaged in the profetion Sta foldie and layin garrfon at Breda, a teat called Musee Compendimn, Sthich was poblihed in te year 1617, and comprehends the following articles. T De munero vel tempore in fonis dofervando,” De fogorum dverftat ives acutum ex grave, “Deconfonandis, Deaftavd. De guint, De quar, De Aitonoy tera minor, et feta. De gradibs five tonks mufcs, De dlfon tis, "De ratone component et modie. De mods” This Compendim of Mut, though iis comprized in fity- la Terre, Fe le vois dclater an front du Firmayieat : Ex fi ton fe transfarme en la chofe qu'on aime s Comme il fue amourenx des Aftres feulement , Quele grand GALILEE eff un Altre Iny-mefne. | CoLLerer.RENATUS DESCARTES : f EXCELLENT ' COMPENDIUM MUSICK: + Neceing and Fico ANIMADVERSIONS " "Thereupon. Landon, Prine by Thomas Harper for Humphry Miele, fad are co bee fold at his Shop at the Signe of the ‘Princes Armes in §, Pauls Church-Yard, and by Thomas Heath in Coven Garden, 165 3. 2°To the Ingenious READER, or. SIR: 0 fooner can your Es have taken in CAS 0 this shiz Volume obich I bave, informe lasiende of Afpfance, ‘Midwiv'd into thw onr Eroghith orld; baton nef rilng,£0 m1 ry od te Elogic to itfelfe s ee 4 HOR eo of, being one of the feireft Flowers in that &, Lotfi aa rematicks; ee this Century being meritorionfly adorned; inay , without breach of Modefy, take the right band of Antiquity , nd. fland aswe¥ * the Wonder, as Envy of Polterity : and fogratefily acknowledged by all ,. mboje Studies and Ingemuity have qualified them with Judgement enough 10 profouml the fenfe of bis Geometry and Algebra. And its SUBJECT fo smiverfally: Grateful ; thar I dare fay, ‘yowbave not, in all your Readings, met with the Name of any Per- fon, except onely Tacinus the Emperour, who was fo rude and barfh of Difpofition, as rodiftike the Melody of Numbers. 2, Concerning the AUTHOR, therefore, : thetertd Reale’ she maph your felfe can judgeime fis 10 fay, i ee he vince vel i can pay unto bis Noble Memory, filent Veneratidn: it being almoft of Neceffty, that a" Paneggwick- on Him from iy xnes ee Pen,be interpreted a kind of implicite iminution ; _fince it muff fuppofé the Height of His Mavic to’be commenfirable by tbe Digits of fo fleinder' a Capacity sand {fox will admit Him for a Competent Dox- ologitt, hod, ‘by incomputabledifiances, below a due Apprebenfion of the Extellen- ‘And, as forthe SUBJECT liken fey mberesvith'the R ationall Soule of Man ir f Patberically , and bya kinde of occult “Magnetifine, Afeted , that even tbe molt Rigid and Barbateus hove ever Confit it 10 be the moft potent Charme either to Ex- cite, or Compote the moj? velemtenPa : pe‘The Stationer ons thereof; at Homer ingenioxjly inti: mates in bis Figment , that s was the Cu- fiome ofthe Gods , 0 pacifie their Civil Digestion with the Harmony of Mufick, ‘and that she Rough fpiriced "Rchiles, with the foft Coucordant Echoes 9) bis owne Harp, wféd 10 Cale the sumulenows aftna- tiow of bis Choler ; and as all Pocts nna- nimoudly intend,in that they have made the Magick of Sirens to confff only in tbe feet ‘Accents and Melotheticall Modulation of their Voices : Concerning this, I fay , it mould fonnd a mere Pleonalme for me,bere, to Commend it by any orber Argument, bus this unfrequent one, That the Sage and Upright Ancients bad Mulick in fo high Eftimation, as that, when tbey seonld fully Charafterfe a Leamed and Sapient Perfon, they called bim only nen Mu fician: and, if bis long Sindy of Humani- rytothe Reader. ty aud she Liberal Sciences bad raifed Flimio Eminency ; they onely went vo Noes bigher, and in she faperlarive degree led Flim worinen, asf 10 bewell skilled ‘iw the ae and Difcordant F'ro- portions of Numbers , were the moft per- Plea of Virtue and eentesee Ti rc bes the expreffe Records of Phuarch and Diogenes Lacrtus, iaybe aaruraly inforred from bence ; tbat even the bef of owr Moderne Grarmmarians , and Phito! derive the word Miufick, ts alfo tbe Migs , from the Greeks Verbe, ae that fignfies io Explore with defie ‘and this pon no flender Recfon ; in smuch os the Key that opens the difficul Locks ae Arts and Sciences, mnft be an andes Defice of Difguitition. The fime allo may bo eafily Collected from thts Con eration ; thas to a Complete Malirian Cpleafe"Fue Stationer (plese you , 10 nnderftand Hite to be. fu as bath not only Nibbleg at, buit:fi the mbole Theory of Mufick ; 1. €. bavie- ing profoundly JPecidated the Pythagorean Scheme of the warioks Soneds arifing: from ‘various Hammers, beaten onan Anvillye- fpetfiveto their different W eights ,. doth clearly and diftinttly underfiand as troll the Asithmetical , 4s Geomtrical Proporti- ons of Confonances,and Diffonanees : for, it is not the mere PraGtical Organist , that candeferve that’ Noble Attribute) is re- quired a more then fuperficial infight into all kinds of Humane Learning. For, He aninfi be a PhyGiologitt ; that He nay de- monftrate the Creation, Narure , Proprie- ties, and E-ffetts of a Natural Sound. A Philologer, to inquire into the firft Inven- tion, Inftitution, and fucceding Propagai- on of an Artificial Sound, or Mufick,. Ap Arithme-tothe Reader. Arithmetician, tobe able to explaine the Canfes of Motions Harmonical, by Num- bers, and declare the Myfferies of the new Algebraical Mufick, A Geomettician ; socvince, in great Variety, the Original of Intervals Confano-diffonant , by the Geo- metrical, Algebraical, Mechanical Divi- ‘fonof a Monocbord. A Post; toconform be T rs, and Words tosbe Lawes of 2 luasbers , and diflingnifo the En- Phonie of Vowells and Syllables. A Me- chanique ; 10 hyow the exquifite Stru- Bure orF abrick of all Mufical Inftruments, Winde, Ssringed or Tymspanons alias Pul- fatile, AMecalhift; ‘10 explore the diffe- ‘rent Contemperations of Barytonous and Osxytonow,or Grave and Acnie toned Me- tals , in order 10 the Cafting of tineable Belts , for Chines , &e. An Anatomitt ; to farisfie concerning the Manner, and Or- y b gansThe Stationer ans ofthe Senfe of Hearing. AMelothe- teh tol dovnademonfraice mtd fir the Compofing, or Setting of all Tunes, SS Avent tn, Lafily, He muft be fo far 4 Magician, as to excite Wonder, with re« ducing ino Prattice the Thanmaturgical, or admirable Secrets of Muck, : I meane, the Sympatbies and Antipatbies betwixt Confounds and Diffonnds ; the Medico- magical V irtnes of Harmonious Notes Cin- fhanced in the Cure of Sauls Melancholy ‘fitts , and of the prodigiom Venome of the Tarantula, &c.) the Creation of Echoes , whether “Monophone , or Polpboeri ingle or Mailed, tge ther with the Figures of Buildings and arched Rocks, neer Rivers, Daler, or Woods, requifite 10 the multiped Rever- berations of Sounds, the Artifice of Oto- couftick Tubes, or Auriculary Meanders, fortothe Reader. {forthe firengtbning, cominnation, and re- snote tranfvettion of weake founds, and the mitigation of firong ; the Model of Avto- phonons, or eaking States and, final ty, the Cryptological Mufick, whereby the feeret Conceprions ofthe mind may bey the Language of inarticulate Sounds , commu inicated 10.4 Friend, at good diftance. Thee Confderations premifed ; All that can remain to me» as the proper Argu- ment of bi Prefae, é 10 ad vertife yoni aword, (1) That themany and groffe De- Fes obferved in the Latine Imprefion 5 cpecialy inthe Figures , and Diagramms, wherein the Evidence of each refpettive ‘Demonftration ought 10 have confit; was ‘principal Occafion 10 this my Englth ane: which I may jxfily affirme to Bef Accurate, fome few Litteral Overfgbvof the Prefs only excepted, that tbe Excellent a2 DesThe Stationer Des-Cartes,bad He lived to fee it, wowld have acknowledged the Translator for a greater Friend 10 bis Honour , then that rawe Difciple of bis, who baving wnfaith- fully tranferibed the Original and divlged bis owne faulty Copy; bath ofien given cecaion ‘tot only 10 tbe Enemies, ban a fo fome of the Defendants of bis Mafters ‘Learned Indoftry, 10 fat fe, that inthis puniealar Treat, He ite fone tinge more then Himfelf clearly wnderftood. And (2) that the Authour of the coucife , but weighty ANIMADVERSIONS Sib- Sfequent, long labouring bie T bougbts in the (trict Examination of the Apodittical Ve- rity of Des-Cartcs, Fundamentals, inthis Conspendium ; nal happily lighted on tcovery of. New Hypothefis , de filiciem wile fill and eafie “Tthe Pooenomena inMigick 4 | | i {tothe Reader. aSwommary whereof, Idoe bere 5 as ell to prepare, as endear your Attention, prefent OH. 2° Att Confonances and other Meal Intervalls doe arife According 10 Des-Cartes Principles, from an Arithmetical Divifon of the Chord, ic. by Dichotomifing the pace of an Eighth, &c. as an Eighth from a Biparti- tion of the w bole Line: According to otbers,and the moft Fudici- ous Writers on this Subje€t (uch are Mer- fennus , “Lib. de Inftrum. Harmonic. i. 15° & Kirchems,, in Artis magn. Contoni & Diffoni Lib. 4.) fron the Di vifion of an Eighth Geometrically , i.e. into vrelve equal Semitones , by eleven meane Proportionals, But, according to the New Suppofition excoptated by the. profound. ciubove of b3 thee iThe Stationer thefe Animadverfions ; from the Divifi- onof the wbole Chord into Extreame and Mean Ration , and ofiie Mean Ration, according 10 this Analogie, Viz, As the Number of Parts in the Firtt Terme, 10 the Number of Paris in the Third : So the Number of R ations between the Firft and Second, t0.the Number of Rations betsveen the Second and Third, Which Novell lavention alone,is more then enough , on the one fide , to give the Capable part of Scholers a gratefull R clith ofthe Inventors extraordinary Abilities in the Nobleft Member or Heart of Learning the Mathematicks : fo alo, on she otber, 10 promife an advantageous Compenfation of fofimall an expence of Ole, as it required 10tothe Reader. to the comprebenfive perulal (not tozake notice of the contemptible Price) 9 fowSheets. In the Confidence whereof, it is fit I fierrender you to the pleafant Ledhure and Enjoyment of the Book it elf:SobhoGtgoohers oA Compendinm of Musfick. CHAPTER 1 He on J ECTof this Art isa Sound. ‘The END; to delight, and move va- rious Adedtions ins. For Songs may Bee made dolefull and, delighefll at donee | noriis it ftrange that two divcrs efeas thould refale. from this one caufe fince thus Elegiographers and Tragoedians pleale their Awditors fo much ehe more by how much the hore griefe they excite in shem, TheadEA N's conducing to this End, or the Affe @iions ofa Sound are chiefly two ; viz the Dilflerences therof in the reafon of Dutationor Time and in the real f tzenfon of moiiation 0 “Acute oF rave 5 for concerning the quality of a Sound , from hac bidy snd how ie may procede more gratcal, is the Argument of Phyfiologilts “hie only. hing feems to render the voice of Man che matt geatelull of all other founds ;that it holds the preatelk conformity co our fpitts, Thus alfoisthe voice Bf Fried more gratefull thenof an Enemy. from a {jmpachy and lifpacty of Affeions : by he fame rea Pomiperhapsy that it isconceived chat a, Drum headed witha Sheeps skin yeelds no found, though fucken, a2 Af COMPENDIUM if another Drum headed with a Wolfs skinbec beaten upon in the fame Room, CHAP, IL Praconfderalles. 2, To this Deleétation is required 2 certain proportion of the objedt to the fenfe, Hence comes it, (for iaitance) that the noife of Thunder, and the repore of Guns are not convenicnt to Malick: be- caufe they offend the Ear, a8 the too great fplendor of the Sundoth deftroy the fight. 3., The Obje6k maftbee fuch, as that it fall not upon the Senfe with too great Difficulty and Confutton, Hence comes it, (for infance ) that any Figure excec- slingly implicate, though exaéty regulary fuch isthe Mother ia the Aol» is ot fpleaineco the. A. 6h, a8 another conGiling of lines more equall fuch avisin thefame Net: the reafon wherol iy becaute thefenfe doth more tully faeishe ifelf in the one, then in he other, wherin are many things which it doth not petccivefaticiently difling. 4. That Objeét is more cafily perceived by the fenfe, inwhich is found che leaft Difference (1) of Parts. 5. ‘The paresof an Object are faid to bec lffedife- ren'cach ftom other , when they mutvally hold che seater proportion [2] each to other, Fee That proportion ought to be eAribiaial not Geometrical, “The reeon wherofs, beau in thar, E” Sen is capable of fome Deletion.HET ER i here are not fomany things advertible, fice the Di re ar Oe ay whe opal: and therfore the fenfe faffers not {0 much labour and defpti fasion, that ie may diftinelly perceive Si Ghings occurring therin [3]: For & stow ‘axample the proportion of thee lines 35 4-4 -t Kaori itrguiiedby tees 4, er then of the e 14) 48 EG (1% EES becaule in the firlt, the fenfe is required only to advert the Unity for ‘the difference of each linc ; but in the fecond, the parts Mey tnd BC wk se ecm, Ate concelvey they eanby a0 moeas be pelea eae ee lgehe) and aronce bu onl) Jnorder toa proportion -Arshmeticall 5 fo that it may sree oe ae AB awoartey (3]wherok theeLé] ‘arccaiflent in BC; wherinit is maniteft, char the fenfe j¢ perpetually deceived. B. fAmong Objeéts of the fenfe, that isnot most aicive he Mandwhichs mol aly perceteaby Feed or that onthe conrarys whic is wich the the Fright sppichended bu that whichis peretived not focafily, as that that naturall defire, wherby the fenfes are carried towards their eee Objects, 1s not therby torally fulfilled ; nor yet{o hardly, as thae che Bak benerdy nrc Spall et be obferved, chat Paria, is mol rac alihings hele Dropotionsconcededet Eeontuer te fleafcion ob Sout At CHAP.A coMPENDIE CHAP, IL Of umber,or Time ta be olferved in Sounds, Te in Sounds, ought to confift of equall Parts, Gecdufe fuch are he mot eaflyefall ders pereciied bythe fence, (according tothe fourth Piacoa) bof Fa ichartin adobe triple. proportion» noris there any farther progetion Slbwable! becauie fitch are of all others the ol cx fly ditingaithed by ehe car, (according tothe fifth and finth Pravonfidersles). For, if Ue meaturcs were more unequal, the Heating could not apprehend thls Aifcrencel without about ged trouble was experi sitet: or faint one note hl pace Cornftance ve equal once coud notbe fang wit Surentcam diffea'y, “You obj, that four Notes may be placed aganit cone, oreight andtherefores farther progetRos ty be maade tothele Numbers, We anfwer © tharthe Number arent the i aon emt here fore doe nor generate new proportions but only ul Uiply a doubles which content fromm Renee thee they Caner beer unlefle combinated y nor can we fet Tuck Note: (7) alon wrhete the fecond isthe fou pecteseateaae OO Par thas where the Jaf feconds are the Fall part S==E= cFehe ey and (eine none double proportion multipyed, rom thefctwo kinds of proportions in Time, there aieof musten. 5 ari wo kinds of Meafuresin Mick: namely by 2 Diviion into Three in time, or into Two. But, this Di- vifion is noted by a percufion, or ftroke, asthey call its ‘which is ordained to affit out Imagination, that{o we may the more eafly perceive all the members of the ‘Tune y and be delighted with the proportion , which htt bein them Now this proportion smo fe {quently kepe in the membersof the Fane, in order to the helping of our Imagination, fo thae while we yee hare thelaft ofthe time,we may remember what was inthe firltand what was in the reltof che Tune, Which is efeéted, if vhe whole Tune be compofed of 8, or 16, or 32,0F 64,6, members: fo that all Divifions may roceed from a double proportion, For then, when we Five heard the Two fr memberswe apprehend them as ones while yee wee conjoyne the, Third member 0 ‘with the Firf, {0 thatthe proportion becomes triple: nceward when we have beard the Fourth, we con: joyn ie with the Third, and fo apprehend ie asone and the fame, Then we again conjoyn the Two Firft with the Two Laft, and 0 apprehend thofe Four togetheras, ‘One. “And thus doth our Imagination proceed even to the én ¢wherea length it conceives the whole Tune a5 one intire ching compofed of many equall members, Few haveundetftood, how this Mealute canbeex- hibited rothe ears without a percuslion or froke yin Mufick , very diminure and ofmany voyces. ‘This we fay isctfedted only by a certain intention of the Sprit oF breath, inocal Malick; orobthe Touch, in Znirumer tal: {vasfrom the beginning of each ftroke, the found js emitted more diftinly. _ Which all Singers natural Jy obferve, and thofe who play on Tnftruments;_princ AR pally5 uA comPENDIEM pally in Tunes, at whofe numbers we are wont to dance fand leap: for, this Rule is rhere kept, that we may di- Ringuith every iroke of the Muck, with a finglemo- tion of our bodies 5 to the doing of which we are alo Trarurally impelled by Mufick, For cettainie is, shat a and deh conc or take al circum ace bodies as iscxemplified in Thunder, and the ringing of Bell; thicrcalon whercofiseobe referred 0 the difqulion cl phyfology. Bue, infornuch as the Ht’ is contest by all imen and that the found is emitted more Rrongly, and siflanly in dhe beginning of cach Meafure, as we have formerly hie: Swemay well afm, thar that found doth more fmartly and violendly concuife or agitate ou Spirits, by which we arc excited to motion ; a3 alfoby confequence, that Beas may dance to number, or keep time with their Feet ifthey be taughtand accuftomed thereto secant this nothing mores required then only a mere naturall smpeiw, or pleafane violence, Row,concerning hol atious ABCCtion,or Palfions, which Mufickjby its various Meafurescan excite inus, ‘we fay, inthe Generall,that alow meafure doth excite inasgentieand fluggi(h motions, fuch as a kindof Lan- suor, Sadneife, Fear, Pride, and other heavy, and dull rafhons : and a more nimble aod {wife mature doth, proportionately, excice more nimble and fprighely Pal fions, fuch as Joy, Anger, Courage, Gc. The fame naay be alfo fayd the double kind of percallion, «rz. that 2 Qeadraie, oF fuch a is perpewally refolved into e- quals, isfowerandduller, thena erate, or uch as doth confit of Threc equal parts. The reaton whereof is, becaule this doth more pede and imploy the fence, inafmmuch as therein aremore (namely 3) membersto beOf HRSICK. + pedaverted, wHlletw the other are only 2.but a more beta ae ample dikguitcion of this rate fecret, done de ad apon the eXeuifiescogrition ofthe Aiton ofthe vrande sof which this place is uncapable. ‘Teneers we fhall not omit, that fo great isthe force of Time in Mofick, as thavit alone can of i felfeadfer a Sean Deleation as is ézperimented in shat Military SEltaunvent, the Drum, wherein nothing elfeis required Thenmecrly meafare of Fime s which therefore I ¢on- teh cannor there be compoted of only 2, or 3 Parts, Put alfoofs,or perbays 7 others. For fincein fach an Tallrament the fence hath nothing elfe to take notice Ob burbare Time : therefore in Titne may be the rca- fer Divepiy,, that {oit may che more exercife and im- ploy the fence. ee CHAP. IY. Of the Diverfiy of Sounds, concerning Acste and Greve, His may be confidered chiefly in three manners vr wayess either infounds which are emiceed stones and cogetticr from divers bodies; or in thofe which are emitted facceffively from the fame oyees or lay in thofe which ate cited fuecedively TORS] AGi vaptes, oF fonorous bodies, From the fr Hothcrs atife confonancies: from the fecond , Degrée Fare thindsDifjonencic,which come nearer to Com Froahctes Whereis manifeRt that inConfonancies the Divertty af Sounds ought robe ee, than in Degrees 5 beenufe thar would more tre, and difgult the Hicaring3 A COMPENDIUM in founds, which are together emirted,then in thole th Ere apittl facet The eats pence may be affirmed concerning the Difference of Degrees from fach Difonancies, as are tolerated in relation CHARY, OF Confenancies, fh, we arc to obferve, that an Unifon is no Con- Piscett eeecs Sounds, as 0 Acute and Grave : but that it bears thefame lation to Confonances,, that Uniey doth to Numbers. Secondly, that of ewo Terms, required in Confonan- cs, that which is the more Grave, isfar the more Po- tent, and dothin a mannercontain the other Term in ithe asismaife athe Nersota Lunt which When any oncis perculfed, thofe firings, which arc an Eighth, or Fifthmoreactt (3), trctnble and tefound ‘of their own accord but thofe which are more Grave ddo not, at Ieait do not appear to the fencefo to do the Reafon whereof is thus demonitrated, One found bears Ue fame rete te anther feand y tha ane firing bears oano= she fring: buein evcey firing thatis greater, all the 0 ther rings, that are leffe, are comprehended ; though ‘every firing that is longer, doth not comprehend all others, tha¢ are three: and therfore allo in every Gra ‘er Sound all others more Acute are comprehended 5 buenotondhiecontrary, in every Acutce Sound are the more Grave cemprehended: whenceitis evident, that theof atusres. 2 the more Acute Termis to be found by the Diviionof themore Grave. Which Divifion that ig ouzht to be Arithmetical, 1¢. into equall pars, is eonfeqytcne from what was before obfeeved in the fixth Pron fiderable, Let, therfore, A Bbee the more Grave Term which if L would find che Acuter Term of all th Confonances, I mui divide itby the ir ofall Num bers, viz, by 2,815 donein (and then 4 C, 43, are dlidane cach from ocherthe ft of all the Confonanecs, which is called an Eighth and Diapafon. Further, would Ihave other Contonances, which immeliseely Follow che: frit ; I-muft divide “#2 into three quall pares; and then I fhall have not only one Acute Term, bue wwoyzis. 4°D, and a By from which there will rife ewo Confonances of the fame kind 5 "er. welt ada fit, Again, I canbe he ne AB into 4,0r 5,0 6 parts, but no further ; becaule ich is theimbeciliy Of the Ears, as hat they canoe dliinguith, without fo mach labour as muft drown the plese, aty more Diferences of Sounds (9). Heer we are required to note tha from the fil Dit vifion doth arife only one Confonance : from the fe- Condyewo + from the third, three : as this Table de ‘moniratech[10). :A COMPENDINM Firft Figure, Twelfch reeoth || Eighth | 2 jrowreh * tek | ighth | 2 5 4 ~ geolltc | ssf ome 5 SERRE Me | pe ith see spe ls wit |! bs ii 8 Minor uN? Ll Mecre wee have not fer downe all Confonances that are s in regard, that,to our more facile Invention ofthe relt, requilite i is thae we frit creatOf MUSICK. CHAP VL. Of an Eighib. Hat this is the fir ofall Confonances, andl that which is the mofteafily perceived by the Ha- tng afteran Union is manifeft from the Pre- rife, and allo comprobated by experiment in Pipes : Arch then Bow wih breath Rronger shan alk ery, inflantly_yielda found more Acute-one Eighth: NoLss there any Fea, why that found tho iene diately arife ton Eighth, rather than o a Fifth, ora- nyaee Note uolee beaut a9 Ei ich is the ett Of all Gonfonances, and that which isthe leat di from anUnifon. From whence, we conceive allo follow, that no found canbe heard, but feems in fomeforees relound in che ear more Acute an Eighth : dnd thac this ivallo the caufe , why in a Luce to the renter lirings, which give Graver foundsotherfialler ings more Acucone Eaghh are ‘confociated, which are alwayes percuffed atthe fare inftant, and foctice that the Graver founds are heard more diftindly. Whence itbmanih at ge fod which all be confonane to one Term ofan Eighth canbe diflonar foany other Term of the fame Eighth. ‘R emnd ching v0 be oblerved concerning an Eighth, is ching ehat its the geeatelt ofallConfonanciesthat is, that all other Conianancies are contained therein or ‘cemnpofed( 11 therotand of others which are contained therein, Which may be demooftrated from hence,chat Ba albs A COMPENDINM 1 Confonancies confit ofequall parts[12] ; whence it comes, thar if their Terms be more diftant each from o- ther chan one Eighth, we may, without any further Dic vilion of a more Grave Term, adde one Eighth to a more Acute, of which, together with the refidue,e will ‘appear that chat is compoted [13). An Example may ise 8, divided into ehree cquall parts of which 4c, 4 fare ditlaat by one Twelith : we fay,that Twelfth iscompoled of an Eighth, and the refidue thereof, viz, a bitch [14] jfor compofed itis of cof D, which is 4 2 oe a c > B an Eighth , and 4 D, 4 2, which isa Fifth + and fo ie falls curin the ref, \Whetee it comes,thatone ighth doth not fo muldiply the numbersot proportion if ie Compete others, as all others do. and s therefore the ‘only’ Confonance which is capable of Geminaton » OF Doubling. For, ifit be Geminated, it makes only 4 ‘is]jor if regeminated : bu if a Fifth be Geminated, ‘which is che Firft after an Eighth , it makes 9 [16): for from 4, to 6,is@ Fifth; inlike mane from 6, To93 which number is far greater then, and exceeds the feries of che fir fix Numbers , in which we have formerly included all Confonances (17) Trom this ic naturally follows ; chat of all Conto- nancics,of what kind focver, there are but three Spe- ics one is Simple: another Compound of a Si and an Eighth: a third compofed of a:(imple and 3. Bighths,” Nor can any other Species be added, which 1s compoled of 3 Eighths, and another fismple Confo- vance becaufe thef ae the etre limits, nor i thereof meusicx. 3 there any progreion beyond three Eighth fince then here oe Preporion® would be mulpied ex- tPtaaely, From whence is deduced a generall Cara ively. Confonances whatever, which ishere pre- fented inthe following, ‘Table. Second Figure. 4 & 2 | [ria izes \ inh miners |14 4 COMPENDIUM Here have we added the sisth Minor, which we bad rot obferved in the precedent Chepter 5_in regerd ic ray be educed from what bath been fayd of an Eighth, from which if Ditone be cut off, the remainder will bea Sixth Minor [18]. Bucofchis more clearly anon. \Wheras weeven now afiemed,that all Confonances were comprehended inan Eighth [1g},we are conccr- ned to inguire how shat comes topaile, and how they proceed from the Divifionchereof, that fo cheir nature ay bethe more plainly and diftinly underitood. Fir, ic is mol certain, that that Divifion of an th, from which all Confonances arife, ought ro be Acithmeticall, or into equall parts: now what that is, which ought ¢o be divided, is evident in the firing 4 8, which is- diftane from 4, the part ¢ Bs but the Go teee oe 2 +t ee x oye D B found 4% difers fom the found A C,an Eighth : therefore wil the fpace of an bight be the parte hasten Mii caghsebe ddd imo sally that che whole Eighth way be divided, which decd (op Bron wh Druin sh we tmayunderfand whee Confoeance is properly. ted pr fegencrated we areto confider that 8, which isthe tne grave Term is divided in Dynor in ctdrtot el for then ic would have been divided in cya was done before nor, asthe Cafe lands nowy isan Unifon dvi ss,of meus ic. 5 ded, but an OSave , which confits of ewo Terms, and therefore when the more Grave Term is divided , thar Diution i made, i dee wp anorer more Aca. Whence iecomesthar the Confonance properly arin Fence igo is beeween the Terms aC, 4 Dy Uihich is a Fifth noe betwixt 4°D, A B, which isa Pausch becaute the pare D 3, isonly'the Feidue, and sgencrancs a Confonauce by accident ; from hence, that feted which makes a Confonance with one Term ofa Eighth, ought allo co makea Confonance with theo ther. Again, the (pace ¢ being divided in D,1 might a ete lee nee [a)3 fom whice & Ba a vould bedireGly gencracedjandby accident all Dikons weoadonancts; nor itrequiite char C be fare ies yee wre doc, 8324 Chen would from thence weiea greater Tone, and by ac- tNjenea Lefer Tone, and che Semiconcs (33), of which foreafter: for,in a voyce, they are fucceffively admic- ted, butnotin Confonances, Nor let any chink it imaginary , what we fay, that only 1 Fifth and a Ditone are generated from the Di Cildmof an Eighth properly,and all other Confimances by Accident for Experience reacketh the fame inthe Widget Line orother Infirament, whercof if one be Reoke, the force ofthat found wal teike all the other flops which fall be more Acute inany kind of Fife ara burn dhe others which are diftant a Fourth, or Ether Confanance,the fame (hal not happen, Whiett force of Conforances muft undoubtedly arte from16 4 COMPENDIUM” hence, either from their Perfe6tion, ot Imperfedtion ine fomuch as thefe are frft Confonances of themfelves,out all others are only by Accident, becaafe they neceffari= ly flow from orhers, But let usenquire, whether thaebe true, which we formerly fayd y V2. That all Simple Confonances are ‘comprchended in an Eighth: this we fhall eafily jufti- fic, it we thall turncB, the balfe of 4%, which con- tains an Eighth, intoa Circle fochat the poynt B may be joyned to the poyne c, Then lee the Circle be divi- ded in Dand F, as ie was divided in c8 : and the reafon ‘why all the Confonances ought foto be found our, is becaufe no found can beconfonant toone Term of an Eighth, bue it mutt allo be confonant to the other ‘Term of che fame , aswe havealready proved. From whence ie comes that if inthe fabfequene Figure one pare of the Circle make a Confonanee 5 the reGidue ‘mull alfo contain fome Confonance,Of mst kK From «hisigute itis dermonfared how righ an Eigheh is named Diapaffon, becaufe i comprehends in ielelteall the intervalls of other Confonances, Here we have exhibited only SimpleConfonances ; whereif we ‘would fl outalfo Compound ones, all we are ro dois Only woade, to theintevalls above deferibed, one or two whole Circles; and then it will appearthat an c Eighth2 A coMPENDINM Euuh daiheompoteallGononant ay From whae hath praeded, we colle that all Con fonances may be referred to Thrce Kinds for (1) ther they atile from the ft Divifion of anUnifon, och are hte which are called Eighths, which make the Fit Genus: oF (3) they arife irom the Divifion of an Eighth into two equall parts, fuch are Fifths and Fourths, which we may therefore call Confonancesof the Second DiviGon + or (3) they arife from the Divi- fionof a Fifth, which are Confonances ofthe Third and alt kind, We again divide them into ach Confonan- ces. as aife from thofe Divifions per fe 3 and thofe which arile per ccdentyand that there are only three ‘Confonances per fe(24), we have formerly fayd, which may beconfirmed rom the Firft Figure 5 in’ which ‘we extragted the Confonances from the Numbers themfelves : For therein we are to take notice , that there areonly thrce fonorous Nurabers, 3, 3, and § {35}, for che number 4, and number 6, aré compounded ff them, and are therefore fonorous numbers only by ‘Accident, as doth there appears wherc,tn a right order anda fizcight linthey do Bot generate new Confonan- ces, bat oily (uch arecompofed from the former: for ‘example, 4 generates a Futeenth, and 6 a Nineteenth 5 bue pir Accidens and ina trantvcrs line, 4 generates Fourth,and 6a Third leler ; where we arco obferve by the By, that in the Nuraber 4, a Fourth is immedi- ately genevated from an Eighth y andisina mannera certain Monfter, or difcient and imperfeé Produst of an Eighth [2]. CHAP,Of MUSTO. CHAP. VIL Of « Fifth, se Mtableco the Ear and, for thas reafon, itis prime and raling Confonance inall Tunes a alfofrom ie dothe Modes [27] proceed , as follows From the. 7 Preconiderable : Tor, Since, as i ismansfch from what hath preceded , whether we extradt che Jeredionof Conenaness fom fe om oe Bor fa) 5 there can properly be found only bree Ber Bo) che coe ie ih hath he mile Tee Confonancesjs the moft gratefull,and place: thiscceratnly)i which zefoands in the ears pot Potharply asa Ditene, nor fo languid asa Diepalfi, but the mal pleafanc tall others, Further, from the ge hed Figure ie appears that chere are hrce kinds of a $iih [agp where che Twelfth poifeffes the mean placc, Waite we may therefore affirm o be the moft perfect Jaen, from whence it follows » that we mightufe no ther Confonance in Matick, if it were not, as we infor- Sed in che aft Praconliderable, that Variety was necel- a i Fe be objected, that,in fome cafessan Bighth may be feralone in Mick, without any Variery 5 af for Ex: ler when two woyces fing the fame Tune, on€ more sexkedhan the otherin an Eighth : but the famedoch serevenc in a Filth and eherefore iefollows,, thar an Eighth coghe tobe accounted themoft gratefll ofall Gonfonances, rather than Fifth, Ca Wete 4 COMPENDIUM We anfwer, tharftom this Intance,our Affertion is rather confirmed, thaninfirmed ; for the reafon,why an Eighth may be folet, is becaute ic comprehcads an Unifon in icfelfe, and fo thofe two voyees refound in the care as ones which happensnot in a Fifth, whole ‘Terms are more different ainong theaafelvesand there= fore poffelfcand exercife the Hearing more fully, from whence a certain wearinels and losthing would arife forthwith, if it were fet alone,and without Variety in ‘Tunes, This may be exemplified thus; we fhould be fooner weary if we were conftantly fed with Sugarand Sweac-meats , than if with bread alone which every ‘an will allow not, inany proportion,comparable for fivcetnefs and blandifhment of the palate, ca Sugar, CHAP. VIIL Of a Fourth, ‘His,of all Confonancesis the moftunhaj J sitccrctedn Tose anisegy Scere ct with theathflanceofochers not thar itis mre imperfe€tthan a Third Mivior y or aSixth, bue tha: it approacheth the nature ofa Fifin fo necrly , that the grace of thisis drowned inthe {weetneife of that. To theunderilanding of which, we are to note,char a Fifth is never heardin Muiick, but that, in fome fort, an acu- ter Fourth is wichall advertifed; which follows trom what we have yd [30}, thatin aa Unifon, there iy, in fome fort, refounded an acuter Eighth, For Example, ceOf meHSICK. a tet Ac beindiftance form DB oFiae"th daetherefo. ance thereof, more Acate byan Eighth» be EF 5 and rare ef wats citan om Dt, by ove Fourth Corey tomes, that iemay be called che hadow of 2 da aeualy accompanist and thence al- Filth we perry 2 Fourth canmorbe fe in Tone, foe ay and pele, ebeeriat «Balle and another Primary» gar ay charother Conlonancs wore Pat ron Mack» only inorder tothe variation of 2 ing ar pena tn we gs Fie “in tegaeditcannocvarya Fifth: which ap- Paatotrdm hence 5 thay ificwere fet inamore Grave Bare, i would alway refound more Acuse than Fife, Far eae deine would Toon perceive that its de- aac ica prom place roan inferiourone , and fo ae oe ater malt harfvand unplealant thereto, a Fourth wnedow wee preente nead of the bo a on nage ebjeedintead ofthe Thing fell, _ C3eA COMPENDIUM one Of a Ditone, a Third Miner, and sinihi. (Hata Ditone is, by many degrees, more perfe&e Thana Fourthye manifet from che Premifs 519 which,nevertheleffe, we fhall adde this; that the Perfeaion of any Confonance is not to be defumded precifely,from the fame,while itis Simplesbut alfo from Ellche Compounds thereof : the reafon whereof is, that it can never be heard elone (0 jejune and empry,but the refonance of this compofed is alfo heard together with ic fince thas,in an Uniforythe refonance of a more ‘Acute Eighth is contained, we have formerly evidted, Now, thata Ditone, (0 confidered, doth coniftof lel fer Nuwbers cana Fourth (31) adi cherefore more perfedthana Fourth 1s plain trom sheserend Figure : therein we,therefore,placed a Dirone before a Fourth, Fefomach a3 we endeavoured,in that Figure,to place all ‘Confonances according co the order of Pertection. But here we are obliged to explain , why the third enw of a Done is the molt perie,and nlakesjin the firings ofa Lutesa Tremulacion perceptible even by the fights rather than the Firlt,or Second Genus: which weconceiveto proceed from hence ; that this Third Goch confit ina malepled Proportion , but the Fir ina. Topcr particular, the Second in a multip'yed and fuper- particular cogether { 32 ]. And why, from muleiplyed, proportion, the molt perfed Confonances do arife 5 Which we thercfore placed in the Furft order of the FigOf MESTCK. 3 irft igen, we thus demonftrate, ieee ine 4 B be difant from CD, in the Third Genus of a Ditone , howloever men hall imagine the Trem to be perceived by the Hearing ; certain ic is Fae Ae mroke eale to aiinguith what is the prom n ans wisn, ef portion betweene 4B and ¢D, than betweene CF End cD; beesule ic will firtt bee knowne, dircét- Iy by the application of the found 4 8, tothe pares fthe found ¢ D,viz.C «eft ge nor will theré be ‘ny refidue in the end : which falls not alike in the sroportion of the found Cf to CDs for if cf be applycd Loy'h, there will be the reGdue bD, by the refleétion of which we oughe ro know whats the proportion be- tween CFE € D, which is more dificult or tedious, By the fame way willie be congeived , if any fay that @ Found doth firike the cars wich many perculfionsor ver- betations , and thatby fo much the more fwiftly , by ‘How mach the more acute the found iss for then that the found 4 ® may aeriveat the requitite Uniformity with the found C-b, it oughe ro Iirike the ears with on- Ty five touchesor verberations » while CD ftrikesonly ‘once: bur the found ¢f will not fo foone returne roan Unifonance,for thae cannot be done but after the fecond firoke of the found CD, ass deferibed in the fuperiour Demonilration. The fame will alfo be explained, how- ever we conccive the found to be heard, ‘A Third Miner arifeth trom a. Ditone , a5 a Fourch from a Filth [33], and is therefore more imperfeét than4 A cCOMPENDINM a Fourth, as a Ditone, is than a Fifth, Nor is it therofore "to. bee excluded Mulick. , fince i is not conely noe uleleffe , but even neceffary in order to the variation of a Fitth. For, ince an Eighth is al- wwayes heard inan Unifon, iceannoradter chs variety 5 for a Ditone alone, for there can be no varicey uneffe beewixe Two, at leat) thertore is a Third Minor affo- ciated thereto, to the end thar fach Tunes, wherein Dic tones are more frcqucnt, may be difliné from fuch a5 bavea Third Minoe very often iterated in them. ‘A sixth MGjer proceeds from a Ditone, and by the fame reafon parctipateth che navure thercof,asa Tench J] Major, and Seveneeenth (34]: to the underflanding of which ,_ we are to look back upon the Fiett Figure, where, in the number Foure, are found a Fifteenth, am Eighth, anda Fourth , which isthe Firft Compound Number, and which by a Binary, (which reprefenceth ‘an Eighth) isrefolved even into an Unity 5 whence it Comesthacall Confonances generated from i, are apt and convenient for Compotiion, among which fince a Toasth's ound, (whichyforthatrelpetts we formerly calcd Moni oF deeve Eighty hence doth it follow , that the fame is not unprofitablein compotiti- tale iene ete wer ea, which finder it from being, icealone for then is ie perfeéted by the adjurel, and rCmains nb longer fubje€ co a Fulth, 'k sixth ACimer proceedsfrom a Third Minor , in the Same manncr asa Sixth Major doth from a Ditone [35], and {o borrows she nature and affections of a Third Minor : ner ischere any reafon co councermand it, Here the Series ot Confonances would Exaét from us a Difvourfe concerning their various Viriws , a5 60 the ExcitementOf ausicK, “5 excitement of Pafions: bat a more exa& Difquilition of thisynay be colleéted from the Precedents; and it ex- ceeds the llmis ofa Cmpendum. For, f0 varius ste ‘eyed upon f light ccumancestappored + thas ‘The Potume would not fatice eo" perfect theit 7. This, therefore, fhall we only fay » that the chiefelt Variety doth arife from thefe four lalt;where- ‘ofa Ditone and Sixth Major are more graccfull, Speighullandexhlaratingthana Thitdand Sch nor’ ashathbeen obferved by Praficall Mrficiors axl ‘may be eafily deduced from hence, hat a Third Mines is gencrated froma Dione only by Accident,bus a Six:h ‘Major per fe, beeaufe itis no other but a Ditoze Com pound, CHAP Of Degreessor Tones Mafia. Mufick 5 (1) Thatby theisaffifancea Tranfcion may be made from one Confonance t0_ another, ‘which canaot,fo conveniently be effeéted by Confonan Cesthemfelves with Variety che moftgrateful thingin ‘Malick: (3) Thar all thar fpace, whieh the found ins over, may be fo divided inca certain intervals, as that the Tune may alwayes pale chrough themrmore com- ‘modiioufly than through Confonances. TE we confider them in che firftcapacity 5 there ca beouly Four kindsof Degrees, and no more : For then they oughtobe dfumed rom the inequaliy» found F% two caufes chiefly are Degrees required in2 v4 comPauDIEM beeween, ca nd all Qonfipnt eaiwieke tse acs och person br tor aly 4 ne csr reber Coeds: therctore all Degrees confiftia shofe wambers, #he two teres wheseafar called Major and Minorand the reeks ae ni wwe ater provethat ideredinchivcapact we ae ave Bom ecu of Cononances, CEE eee eee ched ether oa eranston made from one Confonance t0 another, either ‘one ‘Term ironed gle ot a tera he ethan ‘on sine: bythokorrvaley whi dig the neal betwixt Confonances: “Bheretore. The firlt parvo she Nino sihus demontrared POS Lee tem to be a Fifth; and from to: a chncettyn bom Beec wi iethar ferences which is betwixt a Pitch and a. Sua Minceanrinarme = 1 FeeeES bet che Minor maybe proves Dd oerves Sater funrorge oe ‘proportion wi are Cait ther, bat aifo ‘while they are emizeed fucceffively , { thet, stock lezhe found of owe Voyce ougtre ro ‘Confo- nance with the imanediately found of the o- ther wanes a can a ee ‘if the De- ‘grees did not arife from the inequali Conf E PerBaamples led be Fit und let cach Ferm be onpuces1cK. 1” ‘noted by conteary motions, fo hat Thied Minor ma; Pee OED Pcan beaeall, which doth nor” Mestrom the inequality of a Fourth eoa PalthyF canoer, Gy reladoahe cotooate ro ; burif yea then ican eho lubeiein che rofl ak may fon be experimen se Tvebtehe that's concerning that hela eying cmt wih i for alwayes it cannot be, 2s wi in the fue 1. foralwayesit< appeare ssn them nce fond Capac namely, roe erobee oF aime tee hole inerall of founds, that by ther ‘one folitary woyce may be immediately levated, ar de~ pee 3 shen, an the Tones eek found our, f Degres hall only be accauned Legttimare, nt i Confouanestarcimmedacey divided. To The manifeliation ofthis, wee are o advert, that every ntervall of (ounds is divided into Eighths, whereof one canby no means differ from another,and therefore that $e EiGeiciene » if the fpace of one Eighth be {0 divided ‘sstharall che Degrees may beobrained : a8 alfo, that thar Eighth s already divided into. Ditone « ‘Third pte yand Fort 39}, all whieh wef Fim cinae wee ave faye concerning the la Figure ot the Superior radar. Hence allo is ic maniteft, that Dageces cannot divide aghok Eighthyunete che divides Dione # Third Seer ind a Fourth ; which is chusdone, A‘Disone WT aed a Tove moje and a Tone miner (40) SS thurdsntu is divided toa Tove majranda Som soneenatat}s Fourth moa Third miner and af sre Ost Mehich'Thied is again divided ino a De ‘Tone28 A COMPENDIEM ‘Tone major and a Semaitone mejud 43); and fa the whole Eighth doth conGi of ehree. Tones maja, ewo Tones mi= ‘er, and cwo Semitones. mare 5 3 % sanifeft co him who ferioully and exaétly perpends their Scheme, And ere we haveonly hee Kinds of Degres ft. a. Se rmitone minu is excluded, becaufe i doth hor immedi- y divide Confonances , but only a Tone miner. Ag for Example, ifit befayd that Ditone doch confit of {| «Tone mayor, and both Semitones [43] (for both Semi= tones compote a Tone minor [45]): but whercforewill you ay, is not that Degree alio admitted, which rfule teth from the Divifion of another , and divides Confo- ances onely Afedate, notimmediately? our Antwer is, thar the Voyce cannot run through fo many various Divitions, and a the fame inftane be-confonant with an. faker diRrene voyceyunlelfe with exeream Difficulejyas is open to Experiment: belles , a Semitone minus would then be joyned toa Fone major [46], with which fe would crcate a mon unplealant Ditlonace 5 for con- fih i would between thefe numbers ¢ and 75 [47), and therefore the voyee could not bee "moved through fach an ineervall, Bue inorder to the clearer folusion, his Objedtion, we are to notes Thacen the Cration of an Acute found sis required nycre forcible emufioncd thebreath oF ipirie in vo- Motickes of a tlrongee percuifionof the ftings in Hersmencall; chan is requteed to the Creationof a Crise: which experimented inthe tlaegsofa Lute, seach salava feanaby fo much the more Acute 5 b V che more theyare diflended 5 as aif frora thatby azreatcrioree, the Acris diviged into, ris, Lean which the more Acaze found mint ot rellyof weuster. 29 eceity be: gentrated: and fom Hence it i’ iret uence ae ‘soych: the cuore eves 2 iit rimadvetion, Feonceive, atric secre le are at ee techy che voyce(aouldrunthrongh Frere emznces sone, there would bee raspe them r00, great a dilproportion inthe rea(on of rae oer oe Eauld inevitably tie both the Audie forsand Singers. For EX = mple, would 1. afcend froma dco m, becaute the = fama wil bike the ears Reeftronger, than the found let shat Difjwoportion Fer ee icommodiousthe Term ¢ isfe inthe mils, Pethich we mays by aDegrecymoreeaflyand wich: Pe Mat inequal omgntion of dhebreath, alc (0. reset acivevic is maniflighae Degrees ate nothing els Pep Syne medaineerpofed beeweene the Terms of Coalonasces{or the moderation oftheir inequalieysand Canter races they have nos fwceteffeencugh We Geidecars bur are only coniderable and afta ia see to Gontonances 1 thar while the Voycerans Freshy one Degrecy i aves che Hearing wufaisied nue bane avers Second hie hat aTee ugberogeaer withthe former Degees0 con Tioee s Confonance: and this 8 afiiene rofolve the i ase Objection, atoeeoncr, hilo be reafor, Sees pee fcgelicly Degeet ae adeakted t= epi beivor Seventtsavhich age trom De- frees hich dn con lee bop chan ree Ohnteval ofthe forte ee Degrees namely, ° D3 divideye A COMPENDIUM divide the leat Confomancenpot can they therfore mo- eaare shar Incgualiry, which is berwixt theis Toran, More Degrets(which ale from the Diviion of Bizone into two pars , as Di- tone doch from the Division of « Fifth might be fuper- ‘sad my hogs rom tenes desu which Concern their fandry Perfeies + Bue it would eequire more room tana Cmpendion can afford» and a good Uderitanding may infer as muchyfrom wie hat pre ceded concerning Confonances, More requifite it i, that, in the prefent, we peak of ene Method of Order, in which thofe Degrees are to be conftitured inthe whole fpaee of an Eighth ; now this Order oughe co be fuch as thata Semirone majo, ‘may have on each Gde nexe to ita Tone major (48) 5 a5 alfoa Tone miner {43}, with which this doth compote 4 Ditone ; andthe Semitone a Third miner» accord fowhat wehave jalt now oberved [50]: but ince Eighth containeth Two Semiones, ands many Tones vwiter ; that this znsy be obeained without Fraction , it ‘Gughe allo tocomaine Foure Tones majer [51]: Now been icconeainesonly thece, cherefore is it neceflary, ‘thapjin fome place, weenfe a crtaine Fraion , which maybe the difereace betwixt a Tone mejor and & Tone 5 miner, which we norainate a Sebi [52] ; or alfo be- Sweet a Tone maje-and a Semirone maj, which com [3] sna Semitone nme with bn (94) tote rd, tharby the helpe of thete Fradtions the lame Tone me- or may, afer a fort,bee made moveable » and fo per- Gum tkeoffice of ewo Tonesywhich scatiy precepeble inorurssrex: sn the Figures here delineated , where we have ened the shake fpace ofan Eighth into a Circle after che famemanner, as inthe endef the Sixth Chapter, And erucy in ether of tele Figures every intr- vail deigneth one Degree, except Pwo: viz. a Schifm inthe Fis and a Scaieone mem with a Schifin in the Second : which Two axe in fome fore myeveable , fo thar they may bee relesced fuccellvely to bots Degrece immediately annexed uavo it,A AYER DY “op ewe src: * sy jl tle anal» Hesesansbaaa oe aie cen Gorwoioet treed i aseere ne Topi ip Rocha Tibet 288, ic ma trite ue eee fpece qos, chen it may fecme to bee 486, iat with bashsitmake 2 Thin ainmand ehe diflerence is fo fal pnieeets ‘toa aug Te vebsh saint omy oe Mt woe v Er tn TEM le dokaod Wigace tet he fats edhe coger tea seats suns Deca Foe expeeetio mi dlen ter esha i &, ai ay See eet si may bexaatel sera vente rears ere rth eoeeeat es by etnpoentar tocey teehee hold a, Confewance aiehdneaP ae extreans but it will appease. exccedingly Difomane fag he vier? therefore is another way fobee fought, by which (the init of all others) this (0 great an incommodity may bef noe srally emovedyyet atlealigreatly diminithes [Now this an be no other way , but what is ound and deferibed inthe Superiour Figure, tvs, by the ule of a Schalin by chis means, if wee would goe ehrough che Terme 425. Wee will remove the ‘Ferme G, by one Schutt, that iemay be 486, no more 480: and it wee woud goe through 384, we will change the Terme'D, and 326ihall be sn the place of 534, and f0 hall bea fant, by a Third minor fom 385. E3 of COMPENDIEM spurge Oa conidertins itinvident, has atthe ces, through ‘one vayce folitary maybeé mo- sed, tre comtuined in he Fie Figures ary hen the incommodity of the Second Figute is correAed,, then 3. doth it not dif from the Fir [55] as iseasly dcprce hended. Evidence is alo, that thas Order of Tones, which ‘prachicall Muficians call the Aland, doth comtainall che Mode, by which Degrees may be onlaied for, thas they are comprehended in the two pracedent Fgures, 4s formerly proved: and that Hand of PraGicall May ‘ians dotb contain all the Termes of each Precedent Fi- gure, a5 i cally difcerned in the lollowing Figure, tn which we have mmed that Haod, ito a Cielcrist foe uth beac be refeted te Superior sures. Yer, to the: of his Figure, weare rr —r——™ that caufe, we have applyed the gecatet number, that thence it mighe be colleécd that thae Terms of ll the 156] molt craw Ps).Fomesren, Figure the Sirah, “That it qught to be fo, is inferred frome hence ; that wee can bgie Diviions trom ovely ewo places of the swtrle Eighth : fo that therein elter ewo Tones auty Belicia le plc andar oe Semone, re “Toes conleuent inthe of on the contrary, Se eee ec Bem pinch andonly mwointee ak, ‘Term F reprefenceth both thote two places ro- Eo gether4 GOMER MDS HA flzom thence we goby 4, only ewo Tones, 1 placcaibae iBbpaysthcre will bee three: therefore, then ie is manifeft from this Figure, 8. the fecond cedent, that oncly Hive Spaces ame contained in a ing ec ie, ra s Sue 9 expree them 4 wz. wt, ut core igalaye ed ie Tone pats SOT He font mas from ph Sk ay tml so TRG Cap Se can only be ftvided by two 5 fads thar a Semi- fence ana rt fa ort ¥. daly, for Sp at 17) mi {ols te arc againe epeated inthote’Agtificall Voy. ts fcr Example, for, when wee afcend from a co fof as thereare rot other Notes, but mand fa, to Ggntica Sgraane meyms1tcbmnan bllows, what 8 Misty eh eraifo in other piaeesin or ce. Nor-caa.yousdays- ical beea msc ebmrthient 26 have invanuad exberhiousgy for thoy would have been fupeeEivoute fice chy saubaee deigned the farhe ib fersalls, wT age dae by dhieoNotes if Pe: Doyo biden thy would hang tee" nkontitiead ou,es ees eae woe tere Bapraion hero Bervayce 3, 5: ae HezR ee i eeone ends Fa aNe (58, Na emcee recs than} Soft. Soa Fenda AF cog ee bxgeeion ec OE chert A fe sot le ak a bee EE Retaiyopeeoe tHe 4s confirmed ro eo proper Seat.160 MARNIE To this we serurnghacbykbismesns igight be made 1 progreti ff ad inate’ s but, in that Hand ought ile cated dt Chan Se is tod _ wbbiaabese Oey pean Hecdfsom hence tharja every Ordec only fix Terms arecontined » oC mfiinono.re chaoged y wight je is made to the following Order, andIo there re saainthercin only Four Termcear tafe hick ween the former , but if aT rion bee. sgpine made toa bird Order, chea lors boger chien orcece ‘ones. bee changed, and fochere will remain onely nwo of thofe which wore io the former Order , which ‘would lally be taken away in thefourth Orde ifthe progredlefuould be contioued uote ie asi HO tis geetof emEstcr. » Biguice whence itis maf evidencatefthe Fane weed snot be the fine i was inh noatiiereth would reonaine ro: Tet Andes nad Usd concerning the uicof Dir 5 T fay 5 thar ‘they doe ror confirate whale Orders, as Sot, ox» ba conkith aly in ove Terqaey sehithrthewelevure Gurl conceive) byooe Secstoncendmallthe ache eemt of oe Tune ‘remaining unchanged, now te dhacind how, and che fealon why this isdone, Ldoe not ax prcfene fo well re memberyas to be able ficieney co explain s nor why, when only one Nore isclevated above ls, 2.4 Soft is iv fbally affixed unco i whieh 1 think may cafily be d= ‘duced from Pradtice, ifehe Numbers of thote Deeseet, in which they are ufed,and of voyees,which with them sake Confonances, bee fubduéted ; and che master L jodge well worthy 0 fzsots Metheation. ‘Finall, bere it maybe objeGied , tharfix voyces w!, ses mis fasfels legate foperfigousyand only Four may ful- Ries nce there ate” only three divers intervali by which way thecenpfufcall Fane can be Gr 1d ay not, Burbecawfe these. # guar diference betwina the Fetans Grave and Acutes and.a-Grave Tem 24 is formerly noted is much thechietefh: thercfore is ic better and more commodious to wle divers Notes, than the fame towards an Acute part, and towards 2 Gave "This place requires us to explain the Praca of the ae Se rer congeedat oe and, by. what reafon ordisary Mufick competed by pradticall hands may be accommodated to what of the Hheory hath been premifed ; that (0 all Contovances and otfier its intervalls may bee exaétly calculated. Tncoy a> ¥ BAA KOMF EMR EK H crtrrtoron ci aaron Sn Rtuow prtfioe ‘fie hina bepicriogehd iaacobest oinordive tirbsy-20 scterinasalizars eddad tt sheSaneof che‘T ose Baicuntes tyacnded + a0d tharehelerdnes are diaot Cavivbeom che .2ero Degress.and chwodfore thacbe- Socks mack gogSackoniem ay trcrmrengonshe fous alc in a sepals sw ame eeltyaha Sa se cri , bur igalGruneqesi (paar sherciore are Two Marktvicestal, and ib one wbato fxn tin choraswhuck £4 he Fenn # fay dim tien, ‘eau be Tigo dosh fee quently coal offtaag pasth seh pes ar lopemey lod: inky Trown,irnin thofe Marks, &andpaehch 8b dan 1 parous fupenios, amd whichinterionn andthe accinere bse ache Maths found o:t. 5 (5 Gite be {ier wherook chav formerly oforved! sy Js Narwah at Lilviele things auybo che mace otaniiol, wee bare Ieee placed his tc ltowing Eigurc, snwhich wee have expectied athe Choniyand armored themed oes ther avcre or elk, according she greater or kelis faces which tia} demons [60} ‘thas forthe preportion & Confonances might be prclknard toyerher tothe eye. Relides, wee have made this Figure dome ¢ thaxche Ditlerence beewise 6 and #, mighebe ville ; nora tafe Tones, which are robe fing by one be defertoed by chettber, uilefie all the cece ofr bx nemeded bya Bore or Fifth, trem sheinpmoper Sent, 69 ditt where Hands che Term Fa fa theme 40 be lee Cf no. ws " Pantherof Musrex: a bfat c 4 Sharpe p— [ Bae ©. a % o- zg s c. a a 9 420 2 436-} Se —_} archer than this we are no t0 goe for thele ough tobe the Terms, ince they divide three Eights, withis ‘which all Confonances are included, eo which the Pra- ice of Mucins doth acon hey hardly ever ced this fpace, E Saperi,A100 MEM DW Ot SUPERING. TENOR P69 i Hees Now the ufe of thefe Nambers is, to teach whar soportion ll the Notes hold among eeratelven, fit sare contained in all the parts of one Tupe : forthe founds ofhefe Dieeeshold the fame proportion ore «> another ,.as ahenembersappofed-onitheleme Chords, ‘0 uit chodirng be divided Imo'540 equal pire, ard ‘he found ithercef reprefent-ahe-enofe Geave' Reem F.‘of MUSICK. “3 aa parts of the fame firing will yield the found of ehe Seon Sind a conlequesy. “Aid iene we have orderes 4 degreesof Parts, thar jg onaghwappear, how much they cughe to bee dltane ‘tach feo orberjnor thay the Cliff), [21,and& are nor Slieo fer iwocher places, which is done according 10 the variery ‘whith arc run over rom cach part: Jax betanle tis Mede feemes rorbee the moft Narerall, and the moi frequent, Again, fecha fe ‘Numbers only in the Natu all Chords, and fo long as they are nor removed from Taciepropes feat, but i Diefes befound in fore notes, SEE which may remove them from tacit proper Peak sehen are thot tobe explicared by oder Num: 2 eae svhole quantity is tobe deliumed from other Noces Deeater Dares with which ehele kinds of Diefes make other Intervalls, except thofe of which wee favenow fpoken, ace called Diffonances; but toc wil ereze of chofe only» which ace nece@ari- ly fotnd hn the newly explicared order of Tones, fo as they cannon but be made i of and applyed. ‘Stchete ere ate hes kins) Some area aerated from Degrees onlyyaml an Bighth (3) Ochers cared diforeee cis beewitta Tone mor and faunor | wahith We have denominated a Gchim ; and Fa @44 “COMPENDIUM svothers firm the Difference,which is berwcen a Tone amroor,anda Semivone reas (62 «ifs he Fol Gemeyare comtaincd Seveoths and Ninths, ) Pe Ale ii meaty (3 ar) rat pai. Pye] viz. Gcom F to F, Ato ARtOB, and to Fin asked oritome toe Ett F to hyatd B10 te fe Nat Ps vis the two Extreams, ad the mide Teran, Fay sce paB and yo. 1, Now confidering (as was fayd An.t and 3 that pot the tiplle proportion of Chords Or Strings, but the “tueille proportionof their Sewnds only is contiderable ia Nicely ad thay by the Se of Hearings wee dee judge of sounds according to the Geemegeal not Arith metal Proportion, ot proportional Defy of the ‘Sirings, that give them } 1 conceive it wasrighely inferred An. 3, that Cherdes,as to Sounds, ought to bee divided according toa Gumerrical , not Arithmeticall Progrefion 5 by lorce of the fame Reafow (adequa- ted to the Sence of Hearing ) which our Auteur gave for the contrary opinion in his fxth Preeonfiderable. Te therefore remamneth thae I hecre fhew what Divifon icisl mean, anshow it may be performed, e. Piri then Ie the Chord 4Z,Fig.a,An She divie acd at Sjinto Extream and Mean Rationsby 30.6, Flere, Ee lad oF by Prabatyat9,clavie Mathematscaswhich donelet ‘BS, the Mean Propertionat, bee divided into 17 equal! $e- rons by 6 ean Proportions by th Lac Tableeta Compendiom f R.DesCartes 35 of PueflatesChap, 12< 0M Onghreds Clavie Maabem, oF rater (the other way, in this cafe;being very labori- SL) chap7.drlibmeice Lagarishmice A. Briggs. 5 5. Tpeform' ait ths phases petrovoeeaoree8 3 tenecefoouce anpecrestss 2 0ys830%.47162 E Gaon 88 ee woiaste7ea = LOBE EBA epsbnen artes = 25 FH0— ERA Lie Mlons ZR sone RR Sgnig bie 2 wa FA es risces 24527 ~ Beebe 20 47904 .3 e268A siesta fas open te THO wrest BN IN agit De hginnice Bt rh Bbc mK zt 26 Sipantony S.8770h 0930 090165, 8744 Saosy.o6ish 8197545, 32186 1400908, 0008 5.4, Imo Exircame and meane Ration 5 thas the pares and whole may be ~. 3, SA2:SA, ZA, $55. Into seventeen equll Semitoncs sbecane (she Ear not mel dinguifing fmaller Incr) chit Nendr doth beft admit of che fubfoquene Divi portion bale hele xeon 5 wee the Coma ee naturally arife, according tothis nalegy, -aiz, As the Imumber of pars inthe Fk Teams fp te nner ‘of pares in the Third ; {oche msedsct of Rations be- ‘ween the Firft and Stcond, tothe number of Rations between the Second and Third. And may bee world by either of the following Ries. Po Nararall Wanbers. Ful, 4 wr y {3} {4.] B= Second Terme; Sesond Rule. = ¥[4}4¢ [5] R= Second Terme, “stafchcompadion FR. DorCartes. In Acsibciall Nmbers or Lagmitbres, Firble, 64 Sie = Second Terme, Second Rule, a-*A=E% — Second Terme: Henk VBa =e 5 6, For,teom this Divito, of the Interval of an Ble; ‘wen (ic, the Meaoe Proportiouall AS) arifeth an chs ad a Fausth: of anzighds a Sith ma, Theda a sallaine se Thao for dale Rol ail hale campus pve the 28, Tas 9 Semin nfo Zh ZAS§. sfereBB ‘Animadoerins spn the ‘Third mejor=4Semitones, Fourth 5s ‘This Proportion or Fifth r ‘om, fram its exctlency Sixth miner = 8, ‘ed conpojen y Teck Sixth mujer = 9. Batirbarmonical, Eighth a 57, Temaybee objefted thar the RofZS to ZA is 2+ 61803398875 -, thatis ass to13 +; andtherefore SA ‘ought rather co havebeen divided into 18 proporsionall parcs, by 17 Meane Propordonalls: whercot 5 = La- tervall ofa Fourth ; and'13 = Space of an Eighth, *s 8, ‘To which Yanfwersthat SA is underftood to bee divided into 13°8196601125 + Proporcionall parts (be- ‘aufe the R of ZS t0 ZA, ‘wiz. 2° 61803398875 -, is as 81966, 01135 + 0 40" 00050, ov00e.) whereof the pace of an zighh containeth 1" 2000, 20000 and of Fourth 581966, 011254. Ge, And may bee cafly found (by Logarithmes) working, according tothe Se- cond Rule, Par. Fiftthus, sipetens Sagnronagien Sign pocoaccoeom As youn 9756 CENTS en ots: secesqpcee Breeaveesee iain deans Saeiengrtgpoccco:20e Pete Ss 7 Shpghng 78 Zh, 68a7 1 gt04s a‘afeCompendiom ef R. Dev Cares, 89 -ZA= 10-0000990000 f 1,00090,00008, ZL = eateyugiige Lopetrazate. ‘aor #7720j00080c0c09; Soanaygeage aungg67p96 oopoey pet. = 2.758679 soto 5 9, Batthis exadtpetl isnot requitite ince the senfe of Pierng inne fo peste, at to confine the Cnfanan: orto fo prec a Stef? (Cee. 46) andcheretors, Feeing that SA. givided imo 17 Propordooall Spaces, deah give (shout any PraBion, of ebb difernce,) gbiseee ares? all the imple Confonancesfethat, ye ‘that i, witheur Fradtion, i 5 8 becaule, if $A be divi- ded into 18 Proportionall tervals, NA (contai 1G of them) canoot bee divided at lwitheur s Fration, ‘much lelle again atF, Imade 17<~ Pat. 3. with which ‘the common Divifes doth not ithacrord 5 for fomany Sepitenes arc contained in anrEleventh, $10, Thus then having refolved that the Prepwtion of 2840 ZA a wo the padi, cmap yhaccoun- ‘eedas 5 10:12: Itmutt follow, by force of the preced- lng Noles Par. 5. har (1 che “gigas ora “‘Muliphedby the Seventeenth Zowe of the Fifsh Bachar of 2° 618033988755 or (2) the: ‘of Yo" 060005, Sage otre see sf ety teehee ‘Poteftat, of 2°61803 393875 = carithmes ‘sfolloweth, i“ TAovar7o72838 sBispentess the Logarithme of (ZN) 5'069+, differing from the tor- ter, Bar. 8,” about he Znterbal ofa Sehdme 0r Comns, serino precepie ifonence 8p 33 ‘a1, Then ZN being to ZAas 1 to 3 feestherclor, byte Second Rale in bogarithmes, Pats RZA 1, 02009, 00000" a IN tispeiseats easton 99008, 3786 3 eB ota s7a08 Zt, 63582 5 12,, Lallly ZI and ZA being as 3 20 5 fere5,thére: fore ZA 1,20090,¢0008 BU 0, p70, 7488 + 019669, 43512 ss 098347tack compendium f RDeeCartes, 9% 49834712560 9 39°79 F706, one UF, 7535- x5, wth what hat Beem here [sid y ifthe Reade plesfe tole oufed a prfint 7 foaly when 5 ifever , Tbeve CGN theretally aiking ) laloared threngh my ted ‘Treables and Difraions, endesveu bis better camperf sion edb an entre and paticalar Teal» eccording ta thie new Theoty, (Cand bene tn foal bw bow Albrologers may deduce their Alpes 5 mibhsmare, 1 prefume, of faia'ation, Shan fom ang wiher bitberte dferceredta them. And yor bape sth ftenbat lf more marly he Reader's ping» and mine) If mes 1 bere Farber prefetbim thet oloming Dividonsef «Chord, and wil foleave him rece i here, ar where ele be plesfebe 4.14, The One Capprovel by many Excellent Mathe- ‘maticians, See Merfenne Lib, x, de Infrumentis Harr. rac, Props.) isthe Dialer cfZA, Figs An 8 fl Tico two equal parts at Ns and chen of NA into ewelve equal Semtonessby eleven Mane Proprtionals accord ing co this rable following.Aisiade fons npon ibe In sprit, amber surie, TN ESSN pe 2M 12 Aieng | Verse q8tatiazocecoscovacce,cvo Secmcoooocooccoosces 21,| v6AEq | yeetizve ecoonccnoo.ooee09 2x | Vance Bo} Ane in| YE acgEong '2o| van BF | 739 Aeggten- 2B | v4 Aga: ZD|v4 Ack Sic Syatim cae 2993%, 333606 *, Biagio o1601 See 0, $9965, 66681 pana ie Bicker fete Dittonat 2m Fg Ane 5. 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