Thomas Ravenscroft, Measurable Music (1614)
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Date
16140
Author
Book title
A BRIEFE DISCOVRSE Of the true (but neglected) vse of Charact'ring the Degrees, by their Perfection, Imperfection, and Diminution in Measurable Musicke, against the Common Practise and Custome of these Times. Examples whereof are exprest in the Harmony of 4. Voyces, Concerning the Pleasure of 5. vsuall Recreations. 1 Hunting, 2 Hawking, 3 Dauncing, 4 Drinking, 5 Enamouring
Publication place
London
Printer
Edward Allde
Publisher
Thomas Adams
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
music
Summary
Definitions of terms in musical notation
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: MEnsurabilis Musice is defined to be a Harmony of diuers sortes of Sounds, exprest by certaine Characters or Figures called Notes, discribd on Lines & Spaces, different in Name, Essence, Forme, Quantity, and Quality, which are sung by a Measure of Time; or as Io. Dunstable, the man whome Ioan. Nucius in his Poeticall Musicke (and diuers others) affirme to be the first that inuented Composition) saith, it hath his beginning at an Vnite, and increaseth vpward by two and by three infinitely, and from the highest decreaseth in like manner downe againe to an Vnite.
sample: MEnsurabilis Musice is defined to be a Harmony of diuers sortes of Sounds, exprest by certaine Characters or Figures called Notes, discribd on Lines & Spaces, different in Name, Essence, Forme, Quantity, and Quality, which are sung by a Measure of Time; or as Io. Dunstable, the man whome Ioan. Nucius in his Poeticall Musicke (and diuers others) affirme to be the first that inuented Composition) saith, it hath his beginning at an Vnite, and increaseth vpward by two and by three infinitely, and from the highest decreaseth in like manner downe againe to an Vnite.
STC
20756
ESTC
S110612
