Reflections on antient and modern musick : with the application to the cure of diseases. To which is subjoined, an essay to solve the question, wherein consisted the difference of antient musick, from that of modern times. ... / [Richard Brocklesby].

  • Richard Brocklesby
Date:
1749
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Credit: Reflections on antient and modern musick : with the application to the cure of diseases. To which is subjoined, an essay to solve the question, wherein consisted the difference of antient musick, from that of modern times. ... / [Richard Brocklesby]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On Antient and Modern M U S I G K, WITH THE Application to the Cure of Diseases. To which is fubjoined. An ESSAY to folve the Queftion^ wherein confifted the Difference of antient Mu sick* from that of modem Times, Ut Omnia le<vi credulitate ampledenda non funt, it a neque ea pro- tinus repudianda, qua acriter diuque perpenfa fuerint ; licet jlatim cornicum oculos non configant. Harvey de Concep- tioneo Such fweet Compulfion doth in Mufick lye. To lull the Daughters of Necefiity, And keep unfteady Nature to her Law, And the low World in meafur’d Motion draw After the heavenly Tune, which none can hear Of human Mould with grofs unpurged Ear. Milton’s Arcades. LONDON; Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater- nofter-Row. 1749,
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