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I * The Gamut Reformed'
take two drinking glaffes {faith he)
and fill one halfway with water, and
the other with the like quantity of
fome groffer liquor, juft of a double
thickneft, then draw your finger
pretty (tiff about the brim of the
glaffes feyeral times, till the parts are
put in motion, and you will hear a
Mufioal murmuring of O&aves from
thefenew kind of glafs inftruments.
An O&ave therefore being the fame,
in all refpefts with its original Note,
like fome beloved Son, who is the
pretty Pi&ure of his Parent, and will
ferve at any time in his Fathers ab-
fence 5 it will be the fame thing, if af-
ter I have pa fled oneO&aye, I begin
anew to reckon the reft,andfo round,
as if I afcended in the prefent variety
from eight to fifteen, and fo to two
and twenty. Hence I make my Scale
or Mufical Ladder but feven rounds
•high, which, while I make three or
four feveral marks for as many diffe-
rent O&aves one higher then another,
(hall be able to reach the tailed; Note
in Mufick 5 for it will be all one, ancj
much more perfpicuous to fay a fifth
in the fecond O&ave, than a twelfth
that is D la fol re, is an O&ave and a
fifth
take two drinking glaffes {faith he)
and fill one halfway with water, and
the other with the like quantity of
fome groffer liquor, juft of a double
thickneft, then draw your finger
pretty (tiff about the brim of the
glaffes feyeral times, till the parts are
put in motion, and you will hear a
Mufioal murmuring of O&aves from
thefenew kind of glafs inftruments.
An O&ave therefore being the fame,
in all refpefts with its original Note,
like fome beloved Son, who is the
pretty Pi&ure of his Parent, and will
ferve at any time in his Fathers ab-
fence 5 it will be the fame thing, if af-
ter I have pa fled oneO&aye, I begin
anew to reckon the reft,andfo round,
as if I afcended in the prefent variety
from eight to fifteen, and fo to two
and twenty. Hence I make my Scale
or Mufical Ladder but feven rounds
•high, which, while I make three or
four feveral marks for as many diffe-
rent O&aves one higher then another,
(hall be able to reach the tailed; Note
in Mufick 5 for it will be all one, ancj
much more perfpicuous to fay a fifth
in the fecond O&ave, than a twelfth
that is D la fol re, is an O&ave and a
fifth
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| Special collections of printed music > Inglis Collection of printed music > Printed text > Essay to the advancement of musick > (38) Page 12 |
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| Description | By casting away the perplexity of different cliffs. And uniting all sorts of musick lute, viol, violin, organ, harpsechord, voice, &c. in one universal character. By Thomas Salmon, Master of Arts of Trinity College in Oxford.. |
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| Shelfmark | Ing.8 |
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| Description | Scottish and English songs, military music and keyboard music of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items are from the collection of Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854 to 1929). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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