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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2011
Summary
Having dispatcht the Theory of Sounds, gramaticall speculations of Musick, I doe not yet find in my selfe a full discharge of what I owe to that transcendant subject; but as a lover is not satisfyed in his rhapsodys to comend the beauty of his mistress, but he must needs search into her genealogie cujus caput inter nubila–so am I in mind urged to look as farr back into the family of our dear art, as my faint opticks will permitt; and the result here I have entitled Memoires, as not pretending to a full History, a work for Herculean shoulders, but onely to collect and modifye some Historico-criticall scrapps, hoping to be thereby eased of an incumbrance that as a dett lyes heavy upon my conscience.
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- Memoirs of MusickNow First Printed from the Original MS. and Edited, with Copious Notes, pp. xxi - xxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010