Misc. Subj. CXXXV. 



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Vol. VI. No. 99. 



MUSI K. 



This Musick, invented in Russia in T750, 

 by a native Bohemian, called Maresch , has 

 such a dignity, grandeur, sweetness and 

 plenitude of sounds, as are notto be found in any 

 Musick whatever, even not in the organs, to 

 which, however , it bears the greatest resem- 

 blance, This Musick being the more extraor- 

 dinary because every horn has but one tone, 

 a brief description of. it will prove much in- 

 teresting both to connoisseurs of Musick and 

 to those, who are strangers to it. 



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russian hunters, divided in four files, and 

 placed on an eminence, with their hunting- 

 horns. In the first file stands the treble, in 

 the second the counter-tenor, in the third 

 the tenor, and in the h most the bass. 



Every one holds in his hand a little mu- 

 sick- book, upon which he is to fix his eyes 

 steadfastly, in order to give the tone in the very 

 nick of time. He therefore is obliged to count 

 exactly all the other sounds , t> till it comas 

 to his turn to wind the horn. His whole art, 

 which surely is not easy in allegros and trills, 

 consists in making just stops. In the other 



hand he has the brazen or copper- horn. In 

 the front, before the treble, or in the first 

 file, stands the Master of the musical chapel, 

 who has placed the partition before hihî , on 

 a desk. He keeps in his hand a little staff, 

 with which he not only heats the time, but 

 also every fourth. 



The basses, on account r of their bigness, 

 rest on little pedestals, constructed for that 



The Horn -Musick is composed of about 

 forty persons, every one of whom has one 

 horn or two. Those horns , that give the lo- 

 west bass -tones, have 5 in 7 feet in length. 

 This measure diminishes proportionally so 

 that the least ones arrive only to the length 

 of one foot. 



There is nothing more touching than to 

 hear a choral -song, or adagio , performed 

 on this instrument; there is nothing more 

 merry than to behold an allegro blown there- 

 upon, when a Musician, with two horns, is 

 often changing them , in a swift time. 



Though the instruction of such a Vir- 

 tuoso req aires an extraordinary patience: yet 

 the Russians, who generally have great ta- 

 lents for Musick, very soon become accusto- 

 med to observe the time. 



