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Page 61
... slow and sweet Notes , according as may best sute the circumstance of time and place . I have known this kind of Extemporary Musick , sometimes ( when it was performed by Hands accustomed to Play together ) pass off with greater ...
... slow and sweet Notes , according as may best sute the circumstance of time and place . I have known this kind of Extemporary Musick , sometimes ( when it was performed by Hands accustomed to Play together ) pass off with greater ...
Page 83
... slow , ballets in 2 somewhat faster . Gavottes in C are slower than bourrées in C. The quaver in 2 is about as fast as the quaver in an Italian presto in C ; but in the French style successive conjunct quavers are to be played unevenly ...
... slow , ballets in 2 somewhat faster . Gavottes in C are slower than bourrées in C. The quaver in 2 is about as fast as the quaver in an Italian presto in C ; but in the French style successive conjunct quavers are to be played unevenly ...
Page 106
... slow and C is fast , but look at the music to discover exactly how slow or how fast it should be . Choral music should be much slower than other music ; if a song or an anthem is hurried it becomes confused and meaningless . Let there ...
... slow and C is fast , but look at the music to discover exactly how slow or how fast it should be . Choral music should be much slower than other music ; if a song or an anthem is hurried it becomes confused and meaningless . Let there ...
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Sonorities | 29 |
Extemporisation | 59 |
Style in the seventeenth century | 109 |
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