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A Dissertation on the Rise, Union and Power, the Progressions, Separations and Corruptions of Poetry and Music
A Dissertation on the Rise Union and Power the Progressions Separations and Corruptions of Poetry and Music Author:John Brown General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1763 Original Publisher: printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Boo... more »ks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECT. VIII. Of the natural 'Union andProgreJJions of Melody and Song in other European Countries. Pag. 155 S t C T. IX. Of the natural Union and Pragrejflons of Melody and Song in Chin A, Peru, and India. 166 SECT. X. Of the natural Union And Progrejpons of Melody and Song amangjl the ancient Hebrews. 175 SECT. XI. Of the Statf and Separation of Mujic and Poetry in ancient Rome. 182 SECT. XII. Of the State and Separation of Mujic and Poetry among the polijhed Nations of Europe through the fucceeding Ages. 194 SECT. XIII. Of the pojfible Re-union of Poetry and Mujic. 221 SECT. XIV. Conclusion. 238 A DIS- DISSERTATION, SECTION L Design. rLEST Pair of Syrens, Pledges of Heaven's Jeyt ' Jj Sphere-born harmonious Sifters, Voice and Verse, Wed your divine Sounds, and mixd Pow'r employ I So faid the fublime Milton, who knew and felt their Force : But Thofe whom Nature had thus joined together, Man, by his falfe Refinements, hath moft unnaturally put a/under. The Purpofe of the following Diflertation, therefore, is to trace the Rife, Union, and Progrejpon of Poetry and Mufic, as they are found to exift in their feveral Kinds and Gradations among Mankind; thence to confider the Caufes which have produced that Separation under which they now lie, and have often lain, among the more polimed Nations; and in Conclufion, to point out the Circumjlances in which, and the Means by which, they may poffibly be again united. E SECT. SECT. II. The propofed Method of Inquiry. WHATEVER is founded in fuch Pajtons and Principles of Actionv as ar...« less