340 SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE 



Var. I. 





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Here we have a recurrence of notes (for what- 

 ever the characters may fignify, they are evidently 

 the fame) nearly as frequent as in the laft, and if 

 the explanation may be allowed, we obferve an 

 abominable jargon in the harmony. The dot t after 

 fome of the upper notes I cannot explain. — In all 

 the other mufic of this manufcript, which I have 

 examined with confiderable care, there feems a great 

 famenefs, and a conftant recurrence of notes, totally 

 unlike the varied and beautiful melodies of the pre- 

 fent day. — We mufl not refufe aifent to the explana- 

 tions, becaufe the mufic would not be fuited to 

 modern ears. We are in every refpe6l creatui*es of 

 habit, and as our mufic from cuftom is at length 



become 



