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24 the Cliffs Redncti
As it is eafier to find a Man, who
always keeps his home, than if he (pent
his time in continual Rambling h Co I
fuppofe, none can deny, but the Notes
may be more readily known, when
they are perpetually rivited into the
fame places , then if they were (hufF-
ied up and down in their former Alte-
terations.
I would not therefore be tedious,
in further plirfuing fo plain a Demon-
ftration, but that Mufick-mafters,who
have by the practice of their whole
Lives, attained this laborious Artj
(this now troublefom and infignificant
Excellency) will be loath to confent
toa Way, wherein every young Pra-
ctitioner may Rival them j who by
exercifing himfelf only in that one
Method propofed, (hall be as nimble
at his Book, to play by fight in a year,
as they are in an Age.
For do but fuppofe all the labour
that was (pent in practicing three Cliffs,
had been beftowed upon one j and
that diffracted variety (which in per-
fecting one did, as it were, imperfect
another) was contracted in our United
Order, how great would the Perfe-
ction be. And let me tell you, though
the
As it is eafier to find a Man, who
always keeps his home, than if he (pent
his time in continual Rambling h Co I
fuppofe, none can deny, but the Notes
may be more readily known, when
they are perpetually rivited into the
fame places , then if they were (hufF-
ied up and down in their former Alte-
terations.
I would not therefore be tedious,
in further plirfuing fo plain a Demon-
ftration, but that Mufick-mafters,who
have by the practice of their whole
Lives, attained this laborious Artj
(this now troublefom and infignificant
Excellency) will be loath to confent
toa Way, wherein every young Pra-
ctitioner may Rival them j who by
exercifing himfelf only in that one
Method propofed, (hall be as nimble
at his Book, to play by fight in a year,
as they are in an Age.
For do but fuppofe all the labour
that was (pent in practicing three Cliffs,
had been beftowed upon one j and
that diffracted variety (which in per-
fecting one did, as it were, imperfect
another) was contracted in our United
Order, how great would the Perfe-
ction be. And let me tell you, though
the
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| Special collections of printed music > Inglis Collection of printed music > Printed text > Essay to the advancement of musick > (50) Page 34 |
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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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