Greek 
Music 
Greenstone. 
—_—— 
GRE 
disposed within two octaves, from A to A, as above 
mentioned ; the third of these fourths, tuned from be- 
low, overlapping the second. of those two tuned from 
above, by a grave or comma-deficient minor third, as 
will be best explained by giving an example of the 
Diatonicum intensum of Ptolemy, which can be done, 
with reference to the notes of Mr Liston’s scale, (see 
Eunarmonic Organ), using the artificial commas of 
Farey’s Notation (which see,) for expressing the mag- 
nitudes of the several intervals ; viz. 
= >> =z >>) 
A 1224, A 
G 1131} | 93.4 4 
F 1027 | ¢ 104} 
E 970) 3 577 8 
D 877 LO 935 3 
D 866 ae 104 3 
c Cc | 778 778 5 934 3 
- &B 716 | 3 ae 577 # 
Bb 669 ~ 104 
A” 612 612- 572% 
G 519} g 93,4 
F 415] % 104¢ * 
E 358 {| S 577 R 
D 265 (9 934 
C 161 | # 1044 & 
B 104 | 57? @ 
A 0 104 
Notes in Liston’s| Values of the Notes | Intervals of the several} 
Scale above A. adjacent Notes, 
The first of the above three columns. contains the 
notes of Mr Liston’s scale, and’ opposite to each of these, 
its value in the artificial comma (=) is placed. In 
column three, intermediary to the lines of the first two 
columns, the difference of the adjacent numbers in co- 
lumn two are placed, by which it will appear that 
each of the five tetrachords or fourths, BE, EA, AD’; 
and BE and EA are exactly alike constituted, that is, 
rise each by the intervals 57, 104, and 93 artificial 
commas each, answering to the major semi-tone, the 
major and the minor tones respectively. 
The interval AB, isin each case 104, or the major 
tone ; and thus, exclusive of the notes Bp and D’, the 
stem comprised in these two octaves may be more 
—_— expressed thus, viz. T + 4th + 4th + T + 4th 
+ 4th = 2 VIII, forming thus far two similar octaves. 
The interval D'B or 866 — 716 = 150, is the comma~ 
deficient minor third, by which interval the two series 
of fourths over-cap each other. 
It would be easy for the musical student to prepare 
a similar table to the above columns two and three, for 
each of the many Greek systems, whose fourths are 
given in ZS, in our articles on the Genera above refer- 
red to, and to place Liston’s corresponding notes against 
them, in column one, as far as is practicable, by reference 
to the values of his notes in the Philosophical Magazine, 
vol. ns 419, whence the above numbers were de~ 
rived, by ing 161 from C to C, and 773 from C to 
a; that is, by reducing Liston’s series to A as a bass or 
GREENHOUSE P 
Prants. See Honticu.ture, 
GREENSTONE. See Mineratocy. 
480 
GRE 
GREEN, Marruew. Of this author of a popular 
poem, The Spleen, very few particulars are known, He 
was nephew toa Mr Tanner, the clerk of Fish- rs. 
Hall, and belonged to a reputable family among the 
Dissenters, But though bred among the sectaries, he 
grew disgusted with their precision, and probably left 
them without being reconciled to the mother-church, 
as he is said to have thought freely on points of religion, 
He had a post at the custom-house, which he dischar- 
ed with great fidelity, and died at a lodging in Nag’s- 
head Court, Grace-church street, at the age of forty« 
one, in. 1737. .Green’s character is given. by his. inti- 
mates as that of an exceedingly honest man, witty and 
original in conversation, though slenderly educated ; 
and agreeable in manners, though subject to the hip, 
Once when his friend Sylvanus Bevan, a Quaker, was 
complaining at Batson’s coffee-house, that; while bath- 
ing in the river, he had been saluted by a waterman 
with the usual ery of Quaker Quirt, and. wondered how 
Qi nial ame! 97 known while he was without his 
othes ; Green replied, “ by your swimming against the 
stream.” A reform took place at shsiotistceuishaiiae, while 
he belonged to it, by which, among other articles, a fev 
pence, weekly allowed for milk to the cats, were taken 
é away. On this occasion, Green wrote a petition from 
the cats, which prevented the regulation from taking 
lace. The poem of the Spleen was never published in 
his lifetime, nor any of his fugitive pieces. Glover, his 
warm friend, presented it to the world after his death; 
and, it is much to be regretted, did not prefix any ac« 
count of its interesting author. It was originally a very 
short copy of verses, and was ually and piece-meal 
enlarged. Pope speedily noticed its merit; Mr Mel 
moth praised its strong pee in Fitzosborne’s 
Letters ; and Gray duly commended it in his corres 
spondence with Lord Oxford, when it appeared in Dods- 
ley’s Collection. 
It would be as superfluous here to enter upon a seri- 
ous defence of the poem of the Spleen, as it was absurd 
in the last editor of the British Poets to attack it 
the grounds of its author professing to offer no religious. 
consolations- for the cure of splenetic temperaments, 
ae would have been quite as much misplaced. 
amidst those light views of life which the author exhi- 
bits, as in a sentimental comedy. The views of life 
which he takes, are not indeed marked either by strong 
sensibility, or profound observation ; but the light in 
which he arrays familiar scenes and situations, is pe= 
culiarly original. The matter of his is com= 
mon, while their manner of expression is happy, and all 
his own. The concluding a ry, for instance; in 
which life is compared to a sea voyage, is extremely: 
hackneyed, yet nowhere has the allegory been reno< 
vated by so many, and by so fine picturesque circumstan- 
ces. Reason at the helm dur the light focening ing the 
crew ; Philosophy putting ights ; Experience 
employing the eH and lead ; the careening places of 
Bath and Tunbridge ; and the dolphins sporting round, 
all compose a picture of anim and amusing effect. 
Many of his scattered thoughts and detached sentences, 
fairly rival the best in Butler; and, upon the whole, 
leave it much to be regretted, that so ingenious a mind 
should have been destined, by a short life, and by the 
bondage of a confined vocation, to leave such scanty 
Telics of its powers. (x) 
