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Page 37
... fifth and a Tierce Minor . This Verse may be alfo divided into two fourths , as it often is , that is , into five and five half Feet , which is a Concord repeated , fo that in this Divifion the Beginning and Ending is in in half a Foot ...
... fifth and a Tierce Minor . This Verse may be alfo divided into two fourths , as it often is , that is , into five and five half Feet , which is a Concord repeated , fo that in this Divifion the Beginning and Ending is in in half a Foot ...
Page 42
... fifth , and the Tierce Minor confifts of a Tone and a half , and the fifth of three Tones and a half ; this Verfe , according to this Divifion , muft begin and end in half a Foot , as the Con- cords begin and end with half a Tone ; and ...
... fifth , and the Tierce Minor confifts of a Tone and a half , and the fifth of three Tones and a half ; this Verfe , according to this Divifion , muft begin and end in half a Foot , as the Con- cords begin and end with half a Tone ; and ...
Page 44
... fifth and a Tierce Minor ; thus divided : Of Man's first Difobedience , and the Fruit ! This Verfe is mufically pointed at the End of the Word Difobedience , where the Con- cord ends , or the Cæfural Stop is to be ; and confequently the ...
... fifth and a Tierce Minor ; thus divided : Of Man's first Difobedience , and the Fruit ! This Verfe is mufically pointed at the End of the Word Difobedience , where the Con- cord ends , or the Cæfural Stop is to be ; and confequently the ...
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... fifth and a fourth , this is harmonious ; as , He ended , and the heavenly Audience loud fung Hallelujah . || I have now specified the Principles of Har- mony in English Poetry , and the Divifion of our Verfe into Members , from these ...
... fifth and a fourth , this is harmonious ; as , He ended , and the heavenly Audience loud fung Hallelujah . || I have now specified the Principles of Har- mony in English Poetry , and the Divifion of our Verfe into Members , from these ...
Page 51
... fifth : The Tierce Minor is a Tone and a half , and the fifth has three Tones and a half , equal in all to ten half Tones in the Diatonic Scale , or to ten half Feet in the Pentametre . Or this Verse may be divided into two fourths ...
... fifth : The Tierce Minor is a Tone and a half , and the fifth has three Tones and a half , equal in all to ten half Tones in the Diatonic Scale , or to ten half Feet in the Pentametre . Or this Verse may be divided into two fourths ...
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3d Pæon Application is fo Ariftotle Bacchic becauſe beft begins and ends bers beſt Cæfural Choriambic Cicero Claufe confifts conftant Friend Cretic Dactyl Diapente Diatonic Scale Divifion end in half English Compofition English POETRY Ephorus Epitrite fame fee Merfennus feven firſt five half Feet Flow fo very evident fourth fuch full Foot full Tones Globe in Pater-nofter greatest Impediment half a Foot half Foot half Tone I N LATIN Iambic infinite Flow laft letting me fee lifh Verfe Ligarius long Syllable Member Metre modern Mufic falls moft mony moſt Mufic falls infinitely mufical Concords muſical Numbers in Profe O F HARMONY obferved Oratory Paon Pater-nofter Row Paufe Peon PEPUSCH Profe Compofitions Pyrrhic Quintilian Reduction of ancient Reduction of Eng Reverend EDWARD MANWARING Rhythms ſhall ſhort of ancient Spondee TH HE following thefe Numbers Tierce Minor Trochee Tubero Verfe is owing vers of Learning Verſe whofe wou'd they fucceed
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