Excerpt from A Treatise on the Art of Music: In Which the Elements of Harmony and Air Are Practically Considered, and Illustrated by an Hundred and Fifty Examples in Notes Where there is more Learning, there will of courfe be more take and better difcernment: and when aperfon who is prefent at a per formance of Choral Mme has lltill enough to fee the progrcfs of it in a Score book at the fame time, he hears it with as much effefl as if he had more Ears than Nature has given: and indeed (0 he has I for as Learning gives a ficomljfgbr to the mind Of man, fo doth Skill in Muhe improve the Hearing in the fame degree. As we amufe our fclves by reading a Tragedy without fceing it acled on the Stage, fo is it poflible to be entertained by Mufic without hearing it: and at times when Ieonld neither hear Mufic nor play it, I have found fa tisfaction and improvement by calling my Eye over the Score of fome excellent Competition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.