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improvers, during the age in which he hved*. 

 The system of Rameau has received successive il- 

 lustrations and improvements from M. d'Alem- 

 bert, ahhe Roussier, and others. 



Another great theorist in music was Tartini, 

 an ingenious Itahan, who followed M. Rameau ; 

 and although the scientific correctness of his work 

 is called in question, it still abounds with most va- 

 luable instruction to practical musicians. To 

 these may be added the large and enlightened 

 w^orks of IMarpurg, a great German musician ; 

 beside the publications in different parts of the 

 world on particular departments of music, of 

 which even the principal are too numerous to be 

 recounted f. 



This new light shed on the principles of music 

 has enabled succeeding artists to carry what is 

 called Modem Symphony^ which took its rise long 

 before, to a very high degree of refinement and 

 perfection. Those who have been most distin- 

 guished in this department are Vanhall, Haydn, 

 Pleyel, and IMozart, all of Germany, and com- 

 posers of the first class. In the new style of music 

 introduced by these artists greater attention than 

 formerly is paid to contrast and effect ; and it is 

 also distinguished by more spngktliness and variety. 

 And if it be less simple, less easy (?f acquisition, 

 and, in some instances, less harmonious than that 

 of their immediate predecessors, it contains, at the 

 bame time, a greater predominance of air and 



* Rurney's liistvry of Music, 4to, vol. iv, p. 612, Sec. 

 t Ibid. 



