Excerpt from A Compendium, or Introduction to Practical Musick: In Five Parts; Teaching, by a New and Easie Method, 1. The Rudiments of Song, 2. The Principles of Composition, 3. The Use of Discords, 4. The Form of Figurate Descant, 5. The Contrivance of Cannon
Declare and know it to be S TM PH 0 N I E Where all the Parts in Complication roll, 'and every one contributes to the whole.
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