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Excerpt from An Essay Towards a Rational System of Music
Thechurch-clerk, or precentor, who begins the'pfalm-tune immediately after the founding of a pi-tchwpipe', will be abun dantly fenfibleofthis: for if the intended tune be one of a ?at feries, which has the (ixth of the natural fcale for' 1ts key or if it be one of a (harp feries, and yet the firli uorche not the principal key he will, in either of thefe cafes, find that. It requires fome care and attention to begin his tune right whereas, if the firft note be the key note of' a (harp feries, he cannot cailly go wrong. When the tune is ufhcred 111 by an organ prelude, or any other fymphony, thefe difficulties are entirely evaded by the 1m prefiions of the preceding notes.' Granting that at be natural and neceffary for the purpofes' of mulic, to difiribute the vibrations of founds 1nto certain par cels, there rs no doubt but we {hall mefi naturally parcel the! Vibrations oftthe firfi found we hem 1n the moli eafy and lim ple manner; for it muf't certainly be the prejudice of an al ready conceived module, which puts us upon the more difficult and complex ways of parcelling, in order to make certain fol lowing (ounds commenfurate with thofe wl'fich 'have already preceded them.
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