oD O 
The following are charaGters to exprefs wider intervals, 
and fhort paflages : 
aoe Ta Flexa —Fa— 
NE Pes —— 
Pes flexus —_Big— ‘Pes quaffus he 
Sinuofa 
Refupina 
Pes finuofus— Fa Pa Pat Pa Pes refupinus =A 
Pes gutturalis =e Quiliffimi 4-4: 
ODO 
After explaining thefe charaGters, he fpeaks of the mo- 
dern expedient of naming the founds from the fyllables of 
the hymn _* Ut queant laxis,” &c. but without mentioning 
Guido. Then gives the great fyftem or fcale in feptenaries, 
after Guido’s manner, in capital, {mall, and aed ago 
Here he fpeaks of voces mobiles in the ancient m d 
= F quadrata, as jufed - eles, Safa, or tranfpofitions, 
t, fays he, 
fava, ” Then te tue a oe “De Mutationibus,’i in which 
he explains the change of names in folmifation in the fame 
anner as was done by fuceeeding writers long after his 
me. 
The reft of this book is employed in defcribing sapieay 
kinds ‘of ecclefiaftical chants, and in giving rules for co 
pofing them. Then dividing the modes into authentic oe 
plagal, he gives examples of canto fermo, which feem more 
ee than appear in miffals of the fame perio 
wing more which he gives upon five lines, will 
e has many more, which feem never to have been adopted fae as {pecimens 
by yee writers. 
Ce os SR. ee, a A eA A. 
a _* tt i | a | 
Dix - it Do-mi-nus 
Do - mi - no 
a] 
—__ 
t i 
Be - ne - dic-tus Do-mi-nus De - us If- 
The euoude, initials, and finals of all the modes, are given 
notation very amply, and always on five 
At the beginning of the laft chapter of 
&c. ufed by 
This 
the- oe chant that we have found in any author of 
with all the technica of later times, as tenor, motetus, 
coloratus, cantilena, ~ rondellus. The mufical examples, 
however, as ufual in old manufcripts, are incorreét, and 
ri seated inegaieatle, owing to the ignorance of mufic 
n{cribers ; but if this tra&t were corrected, and 
difcover in it not only what progr 
made in the art a aia but the chief part of what 
was then known elfew 
ODI Atia, ancient ye breve de bono & malo, ia 
Law, isa writ dire t eriff, to enquire whether a 
man, being c coun to pri Aiea 6 n fufpicion of mur 
be committed on juft fufpicion, or only malice, and i ill 
~@ 
is 
ODI R, in Geography, a {mall ifland in the Eatt Indian 
fea, near the W. c ng. 
oaft of Aroo. S&S. lat. 5°23'. E.lon 
134 58'. 
NESS, a cape of Scotland, on the E. pee of the 
fond of Stronfa, N: la 58° 5 
: W. long. 2° 26'. 
QDO, in Biography, a Somat faint bie sbbot of Clugny 
the moft complete defcription and notation of he 
re fevere and fo 
oF ciple aon fpread over - Europe, 
teft of 
tween Alberic, prince of Rome, an 
him to haften back to France. 
i 
ra - el. 
in the roth century, was of noble defcent, and bern in the 
country of Maine, in the bg! 879. t age of nine- 
teen he was made canon t. Martin’s, at Tours, after 
which he went to Paris, and became a diteiple o of St. Remi 
the ancient Saale which had 
was Odo’s reputation for wifdom and 
fandtity, that the a the bifhops, and the fecular princes, 
paid the utmoft deference to his counfels, and frequently 
conftituted him arbiter of their difputes e took 
journey, and was fuccefsful in became a peace be- 
d Hugh, king is ie 
Two years after this he went, a fecond time, to Rome, and 
by his influence with Hugh, prevailed upon him to withdraw 
from the fiege of the city. In g4z he made a third vifit to 
Rome, purely on religious motives, and while he was in that 
city he was attacked by a fevere diforder, which obliged 
He died at Rheims, in ied 
fixt 
