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with the fame tonic note, the one neither acuter nor 
graver than the other, make no part of the old 
fyftem of modes.” And, agreeably to this opinion, 
he had before (58) deicribed the feven modes, as 
reducible to one mode, taken higher or lower j which, 
he fays, may be be called the mode of A, and muft 
have had a minor third, as c natural is a minor third 
to A-mi-la. Whether this be a juft account of the 
nature of the modes, I muft now fubmit, having 
faid already what has occurred to me, in fupport of 
the contrary opinion. 
To conclude, if what has been faid fhould be 
thought to eftablifh any certainty concerning this 
matter, I fhould hope it might tend to revive an in- 
quiry into the mufic of the antients, which feems to 
have fuffered an interruption from the difficulty of 
arriving at a right underftanding of this material 
branch of it. Such an inquiry may, perhaps, be 
judged well worth purfuing, not only from the ad- 
vantages, which modern mufic might derive from it, 
but alfo for the fake of improving the art of poetry, 
and of better underftanding and tailing the noble re- 
mains we have of the antient poets j the greateft 
beauties of whofe works, efpecialiy the lyric and 
dramatic, are probably loft to 11s, for want of feeing 
their connection with this fcience. 
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