Chap. 15.] [ 487 1 



G HA P.- XV. 



OF THE FINE A R T 3. 



THE chief fources of pjeafure in works of ajrt 

 are, ift, As far as they contain of the primary 

 constituents of beauty. 2d, Refemblance to tilings 

 which have pleafed in our former life. 3d, Udliry. 

 4th, A fenle of the ingenuity required. 5th, Faihion, 

 and a deference to the opinion of others. 



Mufic is agreeable, I might almoft fay entirely, from 

 the combinations pf notes naturally agreeable, or from 

 the proper contrail of thefe notes j from the variety of 

 emotions produced by thefe combinations, and from 

 thefe emotions being judicioufly contrafted ; and I fup- 

 pofe good compofers, whether acquainted or not with 

 this general theory, have recourfe to thefe principles *. 

 Very little of the pleafure of mufic has any relation 

 to the gratification of appetite, or is at all affociated 

 pleafure. Indeed, the remembrance of certain founds-. 

 which may have been combined with other ideas of 

 actions or paffions, may, by re collection, be productive 

 of aflbciated pleafure, as well as of various emo- 

 tions f . 



* It is worth confideration, whether the agreeable founds are 

 not the moft frequent, and the diffonant the moft uncommon, &c. 

 Thofe founds and combinations of founds which referable the 

 human voice may, perhaps, by aflbciation, give rife to the agreca- 

 ble of mufic. 



t See Dryden's Ode to St. Cecilia. 



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