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Sound is produced to pleafe the Ear ; (as a Cook's well 
tempered Sauce doth the Palate,-) which to a common 
Ear is only a confufed Noife of they know not what 
(though (omewhat Pleafing) while only the judicious 
Mufician can difcern and diftinguifti the juft Pro- 
portions. 
9. 'Tis true, that even this Compound Mufick admits 
of different Characters fome is more Brisk and Airy 
others more Sedate and Grave; others more Languid ; 
as the different Subjefts do require. But that which is 
moft proper to excite particular Paffions or Difpoficions, 
is fuch as is more fimple and uncompounded : fuch as a 
Nurfes Languid Tune, lulling her Babe to deep ; or a 
continued reading in an even Tone ; or even the foft 
Murmur of a httle Rivulet, running upon Gravel or 
Pibbles, inducing a quiet Repofe ot the Spirits : And 
contrary wife, the Brisknefs of a Jig, on a Kit or Violine, 
exciting to Dance. Which are more Operative to fuch 
.particular Ends, than an elaborate Compofition of Full 
Mufick : Which Two differ as much as that of a Cook's 
mixing a Sauce to make it Palatable ; and that of a Pby- 
fician mixing a Potion for curing a particular Diflemper, 
or procuring a juft Habit of Body (where yet, a little Su- 
gar to fvveeten it may not do amifs.) 
10. To conclude then; If we aim only at pleafing the 
Ear, by a fweet Confort, I doubt not but our modern 
Compofitions may equal, if not exceed thofe of the An- 
cients : Amongft whom I do not find any Foot-fteps of 
what we call (everal Parts or Voices, (as Bafs, Treble, 
Mean, &c, fung in Confort) anfwering each other to 
compleat the Mufick. But if we would have our Mu- 
fick fo adjufted as to excite particular PafTion, Affedions, 
or Temper of Mind (as that of the Ancients is fuppofed 
10 have donej we muft then imitate the Phyftcian rather 
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