200 Dr. burney’s Account of 
if played in flow notes, even in chromatic paffages ; that 
is, if, after the chord of c natural is ftruck, c be made 
fharp, he foon finds out that a makes a good bafe to it; 
and on the contrary, if, after the chord of d with a fharp 
third, f is made natural, and a is changed into b, he in- 
ftantly gives g for the bafe. Indeed he continued to ac- 
company me with great readinefs in the following chro- 
matic modulation, afcending and defcending : 
\= 4 =%-} 
1 
- r Q 
& 
— ' nF 
I made more experiments of this kind, but to relate 
them would render my account too technical to all but 
compofers, or fuch as have long ftudied harmony. 
When he declares himfelf tired of playing on an in- 
ftrument, and his mufical faculties feem wholly blunted, 
he can be provoked to attention, even though engaged 
in any new amufement, by a wrong note being ftruck in 
the melody of any well-known tune; and if he ftands 
by the inftrument when fuch a note is defignedly ftruck, 
he will inftantly put down the right, in whatever key the 
air is playing. 
At prefent, all his own melodies are imitations of com- 
mon and eafy paffages, and he feems infenfible to others; 
however, 
