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40 <^4 Compendhim ofiJlvsic*
Occafion ; or when your own Fancy Hiall move
you thereto 5 provided thofe Leaps be made into
Imperfed: Concords, as you may fee by this Example.
3 3 5 3 5 3 3 3 5 §
Having told you that we feldom ufe ^ths in two
Farts, tis fit I gwt you feme Accompt of thofe in
the late Examples ; The firft is in the third Bar of
the firll Example, where the Treble meets the Bafs
in contrary Motion ; therefore allowable. In the
fecond Example are three 8?/;x. The firft in the firft
Bar, the Treble keeping its place, and therefore al-
lowaye. The fecond meets in contrary Motion ;
the third keeps its place. In the third Example are
two %ths^ the firfl begins the Strain, the fecond the
latter Part thereof; in all which beginnings, an 2>th
may properly be ufcd. Laftly, all thofe 2>ths which
you fee at the Conclufion of the Examples, are
not only allowable, but moft proper and natural.
A s for thofe two Sharps which you fee in the
fecond Example ; the firft of them is difputable,
as many times it happens in Mufic ; in which
doubts the Ear is always to be Umpire. The o-
ther Sharp depends more upon a Rule ; which Is^
that xdjen the Bafs doth fall a ^di, or rije a 4th 5
that Nctey from which it fo rifes or faUsy doth com-
7rionly require the Sharp or Greater ^d to be joined to
it And being here at the Conclufion, it hath a
further Concern ; which is, that a Binding Ca-
dence is m^ade of that Greater 3^, by joyning part
of it CO the foregoing Note, which is as frequent
in