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If a deliberate pathetick Reading of a well-penn'd Romance, 

 will flrike the Pailions, and produce Mirth, Tears, Joy, Grief, 

 Pity, Vv^'rath, Indignation, fuitable to the rcfpedive Interns of it ; 

 much more would it fo do, if accompanied with all thofe At- 

 tendants.- 



If it be allc'd, PVbv mav ?iot all this be done now? I anfwer. 

 No doubt but it may, if the Addrefs be made in proper Words, 

 emphatically fpoken, with agreeable Voice, attended with a de- 

 cent Geflure ; and all thefe adiufted to the Faffion and Temper of 

 the Mind, particularly defign'd to be produced, (be it Joy, Grit-i-, 

 Pity, Courage, Indignation) will certainly now, as well as theri, 

 produce great Effeds upon the Mind, efpecially upon a Surprize, 

 and where Perfons are not otherwife pre-engaged. Ibid. 



The Antients had the Art of exciting this or that particular 

 Pafiion of the Mind, the Tunes being fuitably adapted to fuch 

 Deiigns ; whereas thofe now are almofl quite negledcd in our mo- 

 dern Mufick. 



The Chromatick Genus ^^ with its greater and leller ^'(f;;;/- 

 To?ies^ either afcending or defccnding, is very proper for the Pa- 

 thetick in Mufick; as is alfo an artful Management of Difcords, 

 with a Variety of Motions ; now brifk, now languilhing ; now 

 fwift, now flow. The Venetian Mufician before-mentioned, 

 exceird in the Pathetick to that degree, tliat he was able to play 

 any of his Auditors into DifiraBion . . . The great Means he made 

 ufe of, was the Variety of Motions. — — 



Even little Children, when crying, are charn:i'd and quieted, 

 by a jingling Sound, a Shadow of Muiick. In fhort, Mufick at- 

 tends the Man to his Grave, where Elegies were formerly fung in 

 Honour of the Deceafed : Thus the Phoenicians added Flutes to 

 their Moiiniings^ and the Komcni had their Siticines^ that is, thofe 

 who fung to a Pipe, or blow'd the Trumpet at their Funerals,, 

 a Cuftom not yet entirely abolilh'd among the antient Britons and 

 fome Parts of England^ who, when they take up the Corps, ling 

 Pfalms before it all the way to Church ; a comn:ion Pradice 

 about feventy Years ago : So far I can charge my Memory.' 



We are not without modern Infiances of Perfons extraordi- 

 narily affeded by the Powers of Muiick, as appears from our O- 

 pera's, and the very particular Devotion paid to the Farinello s of 



the 



* chroma in Mufick, is the graceful v;ay of Singing. 



