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much more taking than more compounded mufick 5 for that Is 
at a pitch not above their capacity, whereas this other con- 
founds them, as it v;ere, with a great noife, in which they can . 
djftmguifh nothing of harmony. 4. ^Ye are to coniider, that 
mufick with the ancients was of a larger extent than what we 
call mufic now-a-days^ for poetry, and dancing, or a becoming 
motion, were then accounted parts of mufick, when mufick 
arrived to feme perfeflion^ now we know that verie of itfelf, 
if in good meafure, or cadence, and affedionate language, and 
fet to a mufical tune, and fung by a good voice, and accom- 
panied but with foft inftrumental mufick, fo as not to drown 
or obfcure the emphatic expreflions, like what we call recita- 
tive mufick, will work llrangely upon the ear, and move all 
the affections fuitable to the tune and ditty, whether brilk and 
p'ealant, or foft and pitiful, fierce and angry, or moderate and 
fedate, efpecially if it be attended with a becoming gefture and 
a£lion3 for it is well known, that fuitable adion on a ftage 
gives a great deal of life to the words fpoken : Now all thele 
together, which were ingredients in what they called mufick, 
mud needs operate flrongly on the fancies and affections of 
ordinary people, unacquainted with fuch kind of entertain- 
ments j for if the deliberate reading of a romance, when well 
penned, will produce mirth, tears, joy, grief, pity, wrath or 
mdignation, luitable.to the feveral intents thereof, much more 
would it produce thele effe(5ts, if accompanied with all thofe 
circumftances. 5. It will perhaps be afked, why may not all 
this be now done, as well as then? In anfwer to this, no doubt 
it may, and with a like effeft, if an addrefs be made to the 
paiTions in proper words, with moving accents m juft meafures, 
either poetical or rhetorical, with the emphatic words fet in 
fignal places, pronounced with a good voice and a true accent, 
and attended with a becoming gefture : All thele fuitably 
adjufted to the pailion, affection, or temper of mind, particu- 
larly defigned to be produced, be it joy, love, grief, pity, cou- 
rage, or indignation, will certainly now, as well as then, 
produce great effects upon the mind, efpecially upon a fur- 
prize, and where perfons are not otherwife pre-engaged 5 and 
if lb managed, as that you be, or feem to be in earneft, and if 
you do not over-a6t by an apparent affectation. 6. We are to 
confider, that the ufual defign of what we now call mufick, is 
very different from that of the ancients 5 for what we now call 
Mujicky is but what they called Harmonic^ which was but one 
part of their mufick, confifting of words, verfe, voice, tune, in- 
Itrument and a^ion, and thus we are not to expect the fame 
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