Ohfer^ations &c, 27 1 



played upon like the Rehehh : the other, which is in the Fafliion 

 of our 'Dulcimer, with Brafs Strings, is touched fometimes 

 with the Fingers, fometimes with two fmall Sticks, or elfe with 

 a TleCirum. 



But the want of Inftruments in the private Mulick of h^ M4ck 

 the Turks , is amply made up in That of their Beys andlfdiSs 

 BaJJjaws. For here ( as in fome of the eaftern Ceremonies^'" 

 of old ',) are Inftruments without Number ; Flutes, Hautboys 

 and Trumpets ; Drums and Kettle Drums ; befides a Number 

 and Variety of Cymbals , which they beat ', at certain Inter- 

 vals, one againft another, thereby rendring a fhrill and jarring^ 

 but martial Sound , fuch as, we may fuppofe, was made by 

 the Coryhantes &c. in the Ceremonies of Cyhele ' &c. Here 

 the Time is more haftened than in the Mooriflj Mulick, the 

 fame Note, which, in the Beginning, was held out the Time 

 of a Minim , being in the Conclulion , quicker than a Semi- 

 quaver. I had not Art enough to note down any of thefe 

 Airs: but in the following Page, there are fome Specimens 

 of the other Kinds of Mufick. 



I y/fi«Dan.3. y. where 7ve have mentioned the Cornet, Flute, Harpe, Sackbut, Pfalterie, 



Dulcimer, and all kinds of Mufick- 



2. Cymbala dant flidu Sonitum. Aufon. ad Paulin. Ep. ay. I. 20. 



Pulfarcnt asribus aera. Lwret. 1. 2. 1. 6i\. 



^raque tinnitus sere repulfa dabant. Ov'ii. Faft. 1. 4. 1. 182. 

 ——-Non acuta 



Sic geminant Corji^iMffJ £cra. Horat. Lib. i. Od. 16. I. 7. 



Gemina acra fonant Idseaquc terga. Stat. Theb. 8. 221. ^ 



XtfAwf S'i^u^. JVonn. in DionyE 



5 Tinnitufque cle & Matn's quatc Cymbala circum. Firg. Georg. 4. I. <5'4. 

 (Matr'is Cymbala) qus in ejus tutela func, ideo quod fimilia funt hemiciclis caeli, quibus 

 cingitur terra, quae eft Mater deorum. Servius in locum. 



Sanda Deum genitrix, tinnitibus sthera pulfis 



Mns, & inflati complevit murmure buxi. Ovid. Met. 14. 1. 5:37. 



Tympana vos, buxufque vocat BerecynthiaMatris 



Idxae. Virg. JEo. 9. 1. 619. 



Tmt'xv (Cybelen) OTtpH^a^Ko-/ nfjimms w xu^C(£^o(f »^ Ki^tttwoif « M[xm<f>ipoeicuf •^(tu^tuwi, Phurnttt. de 

 Natura Deorum. p. 8. Ed. Cant. 



2o; pu igtTtf^;^ MitTsp, OTtpos 



Mi^u liixCoi x.vi/.CihaY, find, apud Strab. I. 10. 



Attonitas cum furta parentis 



^rea pulfantes mendaci Cymbala dextra, 



Vagitus pueri {Jovis infantis) patrias ne tangeret antes, 



Didtxi cxercent Domins famuli Corybantes. Arat. Phxnom. interp. Germ. p. 2. 1. ly. 



'Bufffinvov xjjx>^ay.a. thJ^ 



Moi Ko^XdLVTif iuef"- Eiirip. in Bacch. 1. 125'. 

 Keu OJJTzi o( UJh] (Ic. (J-n^a Ao/vu'tk <? gpaviMims) wo TufXTrnvay 7E K5" ^ xvy-ia-Kav ?i>}iii/^oi If mf /ua'yrtf. 

 .Arriani Lib. Rerum Indicarum p. 172. Hen. Steph. Edit. Ij7j'. Keu ^h aiCeiY IS'iJk^i ino- 

 yvnf a.»,K< lit mu fMhim ionniv, xu/i/ScAi'^oi'Tttf, 1^ Tt/^Tiai'l^oi'Wf. ** an jsju ti( hhi^ayjfor iji -cot yjufdafiinr 

 7t rsj Tuy.mya* If tkV ya.^a{ JtstSijaSaw. Idem. p. I73. 



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