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6. We are to confider that the ufual Defiga of whar 
we now call Mufick, is very different from that of the 
Ancients. What we now call Mufick^ is but what they 
called Harmonick ; which was but one Part of their Mu- 
fick (confiding of Words, Verfe, Voice, Tune, Inftru- 
ment and Ading) and we are mi to exped; the fame 
Effed of one Piece as of the whole. And, of their Har* 
monick at firfl:, when we are told (by a great Hyperhole) 
\ that it did draw after it, not Men only, but Birds, Beafts^ 
Trees and Stones : this is no more (bating the Hyper- 
hole) but what we now fee daily in a Country-Town 
when Boys, and Girls, and Country-folk, run after a 
Bag- pipe or a Fidler (efpecially if they had never feen 
the like before) of which we are apt (even now) to fay, 
All the Town runs after the Fidler ; or, the Fidler draws 
all the Town after him ; or, as when they fiock about a 
Ballad-Singer in a Fair, or the Morrice-Dancers at a 
Whitjund Ale, And all their Hyperbole's can fignifie no 
more but this ; when their Mufick was but a Reed or 
an open Pipe. 
7. It's true, that when Mufick was arrived to greater 
Perfed:ion, it was then applied to particular Defigns of 
exciting this or that particular AfFecftion, Pafiion or 
Temper of Mind ; (as Courage to Soldiers in the Field | 
Love, in an Amorous Addre!s Tears and Pitty, in a 
Doleful Ditty ; Fury and Indignation, in a Fiercer Tuaei 
and a Sedate Temper* when applyed to compofs or paci- 
fy a Furious Quarrel ; ) the Tunes and Meafures being 
fuitably adapted to fuch Defigos. 
8. But fuch Defigns as thofe, feem almoft quite neg- 
ledlcd in our prefent Mufick. The chief Defign now, 
in our moft accomplifti'd Mufick, being to pleafe the Ear | 
when, by a fweet Mixture of different Parts and Voices, 
with juft Cadences and Concords imermix'd, a Grateful 
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