DEM 
and monk‘fh of writers, the author of a treatife « De Origine 
et Effectu Mufice,” written 1451; who tells us that « Cyrus 
lived foon after the deluge; that one king Enchiridias was 
a writer on mufic,”” miftaking, I fuppofe, fome Enchiridion 
which he had feea, for the name of a royal author: And 
that ‘‘lhubal kept a blackfmith’s fhop, at which Pytha- 
goras adjufted the confonances by the found of his hammers,”? 
But fuch authority wiil be found no more to prove J. 
Muris an Englifhman, than Guido or Franco, as both thofe 
writers equally contributed to the progrefs of mufic in this 
kingdom ; and it may as well be infilted upon, that, becaufe | 
Metaltafio has enriched this country with many beautiful 
land, 
moit certain: as Guido Aretinus, Geoffry of Monmouth, 
Henry of Huntingdon, William of Malmfbury, John of 
Salifbury, Mathew of Weftminfter, &c. who have been 
always {uppofed natives, or, at leaft, inhabitants, of the fe. 
veral places by which they were called. w, thoug 
town in Normandy 
t. 
found in his tra&ts, except the minim, is deferibed in Franco, 
as well as ufed in compofitions anterior to his time, and 
- ning, Improvements, and perfe&ion, in different periods of 
time. : 
His « 
DEN 
of another fpecies, for the fake of variety ; it ean be fole 
lowed by a fifth only when the under part rifes a major or 
inor 3d ; but by 3d 
= 
aftly, care muft be taken, that 
the upper fhould defcend, and 
fourteenth century, 
fhock modern ears, we fhall prefent 
them to the mufical reader in notes 
Unif, 5th. 
=&- | tes ESE = 
8th Maj. 6th. or 
= ee eae 
wf it § aaa 
= Qa O CO 4S ——~ 
2S7-o-yTS 
meena =. 
Maj. 3d. 
or 
Maj. 6th. or 
2 omer 6 21 = er 
—_ O- Ft o- = —— 
a ee | a 
The minor 6th, we know not why, is called a difeard by 
Franco, and has no admiffion among concords, by John de 
Muris; though it is only an inverfion of the major 3d, 
which both allow to be a concord. 
ohn de Muris makes no mention of the 4th in this tra@, 
though, in his * Speculum Mufice,” he gives rules for dif- 
cant’ny in a fucceflion of fourths, under the barbarous term 
diateffaronare. 
Sancue. See Harr-Buoon. 
EN, a fyliable added to the names of places, and thews 
their fituation to be in a valley, or near woods, as Tens 
terden, Biddenden, &c. 
word is Saxon den, i. e. vallis, or locus Sylvefris. 
Law, was a liberty for fhips or 
ome a-h King Edward I. by 
charter, granted this privilege to the barons of the cinque 
orts. 
DENA, in Geography, a 
f the 
river of Hindooftan, S.E. of 
Adjodin, being one o 
deal, 
§* Sibylla 
