39S 
Noverre, a dancer, how rewarded in Eng¬ 
land, 309. 
Numa, contemporary with Lycurgus, 361. 
Nuptial fong of the Romans, 36a. 
Oboe, or hautbois, 387. 
Olympic games, 356. 
Olympus the Myfian, inventor of the 
enharmonic genus, 347, 352 ; highly 
praifed by Plato, Ariftotle, Plutarch, 
&c. 352. 
Opera, curious account of the firft operas, 
303; performed in a cavr, 304; fuccef- 
five hiftory, 304, 10 ; French and Eng- 
lifh, 304, 5. 
Oratorios, 305 ; introduced into England by 
Handel, 306 
Organ, 288 ; firft known in Europe, 298, 
301 ; hiftorical account of, 367 ; when 
firft ufed in churches, 367, 8 ; not an ef. 
fential part of church-f rvice, 368 ; its 
parts defcribed, 368-370; requifitos of a 
good organ, 370, 1 ; curious anecdote, 
371 ; barrel-organ, ibid ; water-organ, 
372 - 
Orpheus, hiftory of, 353; and his lyre, 354. 
Pacilierotti, a capital finger, 308, 9. 
Paganini, a favourite opera-finger, 307. 
Pan, and his pipes. 350, 1, 366. 
Panathenaean games, 359. 
Pedal-harps, 377-8. 
Period in mute, 34t. 
Philammon of Delphos, 332. 
Philharmonic Society, 321; their opinion 
of Mr. Logier’s new fyftem, 322. 
Phrafe, in mufic, 331. 
Phrynis, an ancient citharaedift, 394, 359, 
361. 
Piano-forte, 373 ; fupplanted the harpfi- 
chord, 374. 
Pindar, curious particulars of, 358, 9. 
Playford, a writer on mufic, 3J3. 
Plenius, a harpfichord and piano-forte- 
maker, 373 ; his lyrichord, 375. 
Poetry and mufic, reparation of, 357- 
Polymneftus, the inventor of a new mode, 
360. 
Potter’s patent flute, 386. 
Pozzi, Anna, an opera-finger, 308. 
Plutarch, his general notions of harmony, 
287; his Dialogue on Mufic, 294, 311; 
his relations as to the powers of mufic, 
3 ir. 
Priefts, the only muficians among the 
Egyptians and Hebrews, 348. 
Progrelfion, 329 ; of the fundamental bafs, 
333 - 
Pronomus, the inventor of a flute, 359. 
Pfaltery, 349. 
Ptolemy, the Greek philofopher, admitted 
but feven modes, while others allowed 
fifteen, 524. 
Ptolemy Auletes, king of Egypt, 295. 
Pythagoras and his hammers, 291, 344 ; 
his real dil'coveries, 292 ; his application 
of mufic to the concerns of life; 293 ; 
imitated by Montaigne’s father, 288 j 
added an eighth Hiring to the lyre, 294. 
Pythic games, 356 ; confided entirely of 
poetical and mufical contefts, 357. 
Pythocritus, a great flute-player, 337. 
Quantz’s improvements of the German 
flute, 386. 
•Rameau, his attempts at the enharmonic 
genus, 326. 
Ranelagh and Marybone Gardens, 306. 
Rans des Vaches, 287, 315. 
Rebec, hiftory of, 383 ; Ruffian, 384. 
MUSI C. 
Recitative, invention of, 303 ; not confined 
to one key, 336; is without rhythm, 
338 - 
Reeds, whether ufed in blowing the flutes 
of the ancients, 365. 
Reverfion of counterpoint, 338. 
Rhythm, 338; its great importance in the 
ancient mufic, 339 ; according to Vofiius, 
340 ; brought into Greece by the Phoe¬ 
nicians, 350. 
Richard I. and Blondel, 297. 
Rizzio, not the compofer of the old Scottifti 
melodies, 297. 
Robinfon, Mrs. the wife of lord Peterbo¬ 
rough, 305. 
Romans, ftate of mufic among them, 295 ; 
derived their mufic from the Greeks, but 
through the Etrufcans, 361; at modern 
Rome in the fixteerith century, 301, 364. 
Roncaglia, an opera finger, 308. 
Rounds or catches, 344. 
Royal Academy of Mufic, 305. 
Royal Society of Muficians, 309, 314. 
Rouffeau, his definition and derivation of 
mufic obje&ed to, 285; of modulation, 
335 ; his account of the mufic of the an¬ 
cient Romans, 361. 
Rubinelli, an opera-finger of great merit, 
3 ° 9 - 
Ruffian national mufic, 315 ; horn-mufic, 
322 ; rebec, 384. 
Sacadas gains a prize at the Pythic games, 
357; an eminent poet and mufician, 311. 
Sackbut, or trombone, 390. 
Salii and faltatores, 361, 2. 
Sappho, the inventor of one of the Greek 
modes, 358. 
Scalds, or bards of Sweden, 296. 
Scarlatti, his firft opera, 304. 
Scale of Nature, 322, 3, 334 ; of the Chi- 
nefe, 327 ; of the Cingalese, 328. 
Scottifti mufic, 297, 314; fimilar to the 
Chinefe, 327. 
Scenici, or dramas to avert the plague, 362. 
Schmidt, a famous organ-builder, 371. 
Second, chords of, 332, 3. 
Sedtion of the Canon, by Euclid, 293 ; fec- 
tion, a part of rhythm, 341. 
Serpent, a wind-inftrument, 388. 
Seventh, chords of, 331 ; by inverfion, 332. 
Shawm, or facerdotal trumpet, 349. 
Shroder, the fuppofed inventor of the piano¬ 
forte, 374. 
Sicily, great men produced there, 363. 
Simonides, the preceptor of Pindar, 358. 
Singers, firft mention of, 348. 
Siftrum, an Egyptian inftrument, 347, 8. 
Sixth, chord of, 330 ; different kinds, 33I. 
Sixth and fourth, chords of, 331. 
Smart’s chronometer, 394. 
Spanifh guitar, fuperior to the Englifb, 380. 
Spinet and virginal, 372. 
Stanhope method of tuning, 367. 
Stradella, curious ftory of, 312. 
Sul'penlion, 334. 
Syrinx, fiftula, or Pan’s pipes, 350, 1, 
366, 385 ; of the South Seas, ibid. 
Tabor-pipe, 385. 
Tartini’s account of a found generated by 
two others, 323. 
Temple-church organ, 371. 
l'enducci, an Italian finger, 307. 
Tenor-clef, a ftumbling block to young mu¬ 
ficians, and why, 316. 
Tenor-viol, or violin, 384. 
Terpander, the fuppofed inventor of mufical 
characters, 295. 
Thaletas of Crete, 355; another of the 
fame name, 356. 
Thamyras Cithariftes, 355. 
Thebes in Egypt, and Thebes in Barotia, 
3 S 3 > flute much cultivated in the 
latter, 359. 
Theodorus, the flute-maker, 360. 
Theorbo, or arch-lute, 379. 
Thirteenth, chord of, 333. 
Thorough bafs, not known till a thoufand 
years after the invention of organs, 301 , 
principles of, explained, 329-345. 
Tibia, a flute made of the fiiin-bone of an 
animal, 364. 
Tibicinae, or flute-players, a curious ftory 
of, 362. 
Timbrel, or tambour de bafque, 349. 
Time, different kinds of, 319, 392 ; beat- 
ln S> 339 i how to meafure, 393-5. 
Time-table, invention of, 298, 318. 
Timotheus and his lyre, 294. 
Tranfition, 334. 
Triangle, a fmall inftrument, 392. 
Trombone, or fackbut, 390. 
Trumpet, great antiquity of that inftru¬ 
ment, 289 ; Singalefe, 328 ; Abyffmian, 
315, 348; of the jubilee, 348, 9; of 
rams’ horns, 349 ; not known in Greece 
at the fiege of Troy, 354; firft ufed at 
the Olympic games, 356; among the 
Romans, 362 ; curious odtuple trumpet 
from Pompeii, 365; modern, 389; ma¬ 
rine, 390. 
Tuning of keyed inftruments, 376, 7. 
Tyrtsus, the inventor of a new flute, &c. 
356 . 
Vauxhall Gardens, 306. 
Veftris, the god of dance and the idol of 
fools, 308. 
Viadana, the inventor of figured baffes, 30 L. 
Vicentino, his book on the three genera, 300. 
Vielle, or hurdy-gurdy, 384. 
Vinci, an admirable compofer of operas, 
3 ° 4 , 5- . 
Viol and violin, diftinguilked from the vi¬ 
elle, or hurdy-gurdy, 298. 
Viols in general, 381 ; fuperfeded by the 
violin, &c. 382. 
Viol d’amore, or love-viol, 381, 384. 
Viol di bracchio, arm-viol, or tenor, 28 x, 
384. 3 
Viol da gamba, or leg-viol, not now ufed, 
309, 334, 5, its fcale, 381. 
Viola, or tenor, 384. 
Violin firft patronifed in England, an ac¬ 
count of that delightful inftrument, 302 ; 
farther account, and its fcale, 382 ; har¬ 
monics, 383. 
Violoncello, or bafs-viol, 384. 
Violone, or double-bafs, 385. 
Virginal, a kind of fpinet, 372 ; firft mufic 
compofed exprefsly for it, 373. 
Vitruvius, his notices of mufic, 363. 
Wallis (Dr.) hi* explanation of Euclid’s 
Sedtion of the Canon, 293. * 
Wellh, their very early knowledge of mufic 
in parts, 298 ; peculiar nature of their 
mufic and harps, 277, 8 j crowth, 384. 
Whetftone’s patent mouth-piece for the 
German flute, 386. 
Wood’s patent flute, 387. 
Young, three filters of that name, Englifh 
fingers, 309. 
Young, Mr. his experiments on thezEolian 
harp, 378. 
Zurnpe, the firft maker of fmall piano fortes 
in London, 374, 
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