DIS 
Se operation. But, are we never to ufe the minor 
modes which afford us fuch exquifite pleafure in leer and 
pathetic ae becaufe its origin is out of our reach? Are 
we never to a le becaufe we cannot account for 
etaudry poppy? And, be- 
of - derone 
and fome other theor ae find only two difcords, the 2d and 
the 7th, are we to ufen others? 
- We were not quite irsGed with a article Difcord ‘in 
the laf fol. from Graflireau and tried t 
f Rouffeaw 
given us an aces or va 
on the fubje@, of 10 or 12 pages; but it contains nothing 
but a dry confutation of Rameau’s origin of the miner mode, 
which was never favourably iets or adopted, even by his 
anol dete difciples, and ha 
all therefore attempt i no new See ed } 
ca veries concerning difcor t thall conde this 
article ae informing young alia posers that though 
Rouffeau has teed all difcords to the 2d, or at mofl to 
that and the ie which is but the 2d inverted; we thick 
pr 
if they ‘are not ftudied and practifed, whatever they may 
; and we thall only afk reformers of the old fyttem 
of harmony, if the 3d made a difcord by the ath, the 4th 
by the 5th, the 5th by ve 6th, and the oth by the 3, are 
not difeords, what are the ey? 
See the regular preparation of all praCtical difcords. 
ounTerPoint, P/. XIV. XV. XVI. and pafling notes 
an to the la tter 
Difcords are of two kinds: thofe that are regularly pre- 
pared and refolved, and pafling notes, in which no harmony 
is given. 
In moving bafes, or divifions inthe treble, ell the notes 
mot to be oie in the chord on which the paffage is built, 
are ses en 
rtini es given in fix bars (Saggio di contrap. ) all 
the regula pian with their a and refolutions. 
See examples of Counterpoint io T 
Difeords feem to have originated ae appoggiaiuras, or 
me see of a treble part. 
eaths a sad Gths, are appoggiaturas; as are 
the bale carrying 
melo y quitting "Canto Fermo, and plain counterpoint, 
5 bean . receive ornaments, appesgisturas feem to have been 
the firtt that were received in harmon 
appoggiaturas ; firft introduced by fingers, and for wh 
it afterwards became the bufinefs of ae to find ee 
Great abe 
has taken place of late in the prepara- 
tion of difcords;-it ufed to be a 
an inviolate rule never to 
we snic which w make no 
- ute in sues. as we have no Prac pental ‘bafe for 
DIS 
thetic effets are te be produced by unprepared difcords. 
As all good tafte in mufic originates from good finging, fo 
good fingers were the firft to hazard, at a clofe, an unpre- 
pared gth, asin the following example : 
trey 
he a > le | 28:8 
eZ - ma | ad — a: ] mi fio 
f U { U } I { Gd we 
ae paar On ae or 
Cld rules told us, that double difcords muft be dcubly 
prepared and refoived. See Mufic plates. 
penne has given, in Pl. Kk? of his Di@. de M: 
. two diatonic feales, one, the natural feate, in eanilent 
FS. 
i univerfal ufe; the other he calis the feale of Aérquots, in 
which are se uae two new characters, for winch we 
have no names or inftruments by which they can be ex- 
prefl<d:; tele are the fal . ee of the French horn and 
a few modern theorifts want to perfuade us, 
cale, 28 a anche 3 ie ) 
quarter tones. have but two genera, one abet 
and one chromatic, for ie e eye ; when thefe are to 
ea the key, and the ear of the oes muit cree 
Dae new equivocal charafer given by Roufleau and 
Kirnberger, for what are generally called the falfe notes, or 
4th and 6th ofthe French horn and trumpet thus: B fome- 
tae pa ling a oo 
Discorn, apple of, pomum difcerdie, a phrafe ufed to fig- 
Bee = fubjeds, or aaa of fome mifunderftanding in a 
foc 
nee RD. goddefs of, : Mythology, called alo Até, and 
Eris, 18 ee by Ariftides as having ficry eyes, a a pale 
countenance, and hid lips, a3 
b dde 
le, 0 
al ee acontention between the goddcifles Jone, Minerva, 
enus; each pretending a title-to the appie 
DISCORDANT, out of ture, falfe concorde: or difcords, 
intonazioni perfidi, in melody ae armony. 
DISCOVERT, in Law, den nmarried woman. 
DISCOVERY, th e ad of ie or difclofing any 
matter by the defendants in his anf{wer to a bill filed againit 
him in a mek of € : 
Thec 
tice. But if a bill is ae to aid, by a difcovery, the 
profecution or defence of pes anabge ‘not merely civil,’” 
ment or Inf tion, a court 
very, and t 
the cafe of fuits merely civil, in a court of ordinary jurifdice 
if that court can itfelf compel the difcovery required, 
court of equity will not interpofe. (1 Atk. 288 eZ. 
25 Vez.451.) The fituation of a defendant may rene 
det i it improper fora court of equity to compel a difcovery, 
either, 1. becaufe the difcovery may fubject the defendant 
to pains and penalties, or to fome forfeiture; or, 2. it may 
5B hazard 
