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nent, ss whofe works we have been able to find any 
remain 
M. ie Duchat, in his notes upon Rabelais, fays he was a 
native of Hainault, and treafurer of St. Martin de Tours ; 
five parts, 
Guillaume Crefpel : 
& Agricola, Verbonnet, Prioris 
Jofquin des Pres, Gafpard, Beane Compere, 
Ne parlez plus de joyeulx pana ne ris, 
Mais compofez un ne recorde. 
Pour lamenter noftre nee a ‘bon pere.”’ 
are preferved in a h 
pi the compofer of the French * Deploration,’’ jult 
cited 
Little more is recorded concerning the life of Okenheim; 
than that he wasa Netherlander, who flourifhed in the 
fifteenth century, produced many learned and elaborate com- 
pofitions for the church, and had many fcholars, by whom he 
feems to have been much beloved and refpected. It is, in- 
rey often mentioned to his honour, that he was the matter 
None of the mufical writers of the fixteenth century for- 
get to tell us that Okenheim compofed a motet in thirty-fix 
parts: of what thefe parts confifted, or how they were dif- 
pofed, is not related by Ornithoparcus, Glareanus, Zar- 
lino, or any one who mentions the circumftance, which all 
feem to have received from tradition. But of our country- 
man, Bird, a fong is ftill preferved in forty parts; yet 
though we have feen this effort of {cience and labour, the 
effects mutt ftill be left to imagination, for where fhall we 
find forty voices, affembled together, that are able to per- 
form it. 
may, however, deduét from the reputation of Oken- 
heim all the increafe it received from the tory of his Poly- 
phonic compofition, and there will ftill remain fufficient caufe 
for the re{pect and wonder of contrapuntifts, in the frag- 
of his works which have been preferved in the 
This writer tells us, that 
he was fond of the Koos in the cantus; that is, of com- 
pofing a melody which may be fung in various modes, or 
keys, at the re of the performer, obferving only the 
ratio or eer f confonant notes in the harmony. 
en a cowile compofed a mafs for three and four 
voices, ae. omnem tonum, which, as the words imply, might 
be fung in any a the three elite of diateffaron, each part 
beginning at ut, re, mi, ne, fs g major, and d,e,a 
minor, o me h account no indi clef is — as the 
performer, at fetting off his choice of any of the 
on. or ecclefiaftical ees Indeed all the g Sealers 
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fron Okenheim are inferted in Glareanus, without bars, 
clefs, or accidental flatsand thar 
It is not certain when Okenheim ‘died, but he js generally 
mentioned as a compofer of the fifteenth centur y, and we 
have met with no proof of his exifting in the next. 
ER, in Geography, a river “ rifes Fall fevera} 
oie in the Hartz hla about 8 miles S.E. from Gof- 
lar, and after pafling b Wofebutle, Bronfwick, &c, 
runs into the Aller, 5 miles W. of Gifho 
KLEY, Simon, in aaa aphy, a dittinguithed tein 
{cholar, wasbornat Exeter in 1678. He wasenteredof 
college, Cambridge e, in 1696, whe re he applied h im (elf els 
affiduoufly to the feveral branches of literature, and fal sai 
to the oriental languages. Having taken orders, he was pre- 
fented io the living a Swavefey, in Cam mbridgethire, and in 
1711 was chofen sa! of Arabic 
b 
what means he obtained his liberty, hut he did not live ise 
to enjoy it, dying in 1720, He difplayed his zeal for pro~ 
moting the ftudy of Eaftern literature, in a publication en- 
titled “¢ IntroduGtio ad Linguas Orientales,”’ dedicated to 
the bifhop of Ely, and addreffed to academical youth, with 
an exhortation to purfue a branch of learning, without 
which, he fays, no one ever became a great divine, 
moft conliderbls work of this learned author was his 
throughout the 
World by Leo Modena, a Venetian Rabbi ;”’ and in the fol- 
owing year he gave a tran 
Human i 
ae eae by Abu Jaafar 
Ebn Tophail. = . 
CLISSER, in Geography. a town of Hindooftan, in 
_— on the §. fide of the Nerbuddah, pee to 
Baroa 
OCOCOLIN, in wim Sh See TeTrao Nevius 
Oo graphy, own of Thibet; 80 miles 
CONA, town an ad ort of Peru, near the coat 
of the Pacific an. in the diocefe of Arequipa ; 3 96 pails 
W.N.W. of Arequipa. _S, lat. 1 
OCONEE, a river of America whic is the N. main 
branch of Alatamaha river, in the ftate of G 
places yards wide; its ba 
mulberry, hickory, black Waa elm, faflafras, &c — Alo, 
atown on the E. re of the fore-mentioned river; 62 
miles W. by N. from 
OCOPA, a town of ad in the jurifdi€tion of Atun 
4 
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a 
COQUAN, a river of America, 
after a fhort courfe, difcharges vi into Pat 
five miles below Colchefter, N. lat. 39° 39). 
in Virginia, which, 
owmack river, 
W. long. 77° 
co RONI, atown . aad Mexico, in the province of 
Cinaloa ; 12 miles N. of 
Oco » in pe a came of Aublet’s, of whofe 
origin or meaning we have no account. It can {carcely have 
R been 
