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Excerpt from By the Way, Vol. 2
Consider also that, for a long time, all efforts were directed toward improving the old system, instead of directly inventing a new one; that, in this way, complications were heaped upon complications, and every advance was a deeper plunge into this Slough of De spond, until at last the Mensural Note was hit upon, as the only hope of getting out of it. Consider further that, even when the men sural note was established, as a sure means of communicating musical ideas, not one tithe of its possibilities were suspected. In their gra dual development of Mensural Notation com.
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