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Also , if we consider well , the treble tunes ( which are with us commonly called airs ) are but tenors mounted eight notes higher , and therefore an inward part must needs well become them , such as may take up the whole distance of ...
Also , if we consider well , the treble tunes ( which are with us commonly called airs ) are but tenors mounted eight notes higher , and therefore an inward part must needs well become them , such as may take up the whole distance of ...
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Notes of Instruction ( published with Gascoigne's Posies ) is our carliest treatise on English prosody . Thomas Nashe , writing in 1589 , pays this tribute : ' Master Gascoigne is not to be abridged of his deserved esteem , who first ...
Notes of Instruction ( published with Gascoigne's Posies ) is our carliest treatise on English prosody . Thomas Nashe , writing in 1589 , pays this tribute : ' Master Gascoigne is not to be abridged of his deserved esteem , who first ...
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Polyphony was abandoned and the words were set to a succession of notes chosen to make prominent the syllables necessary ... to composers like Henry Lawes who First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent .
Polyphony was abandoned and the words were set to a succession of notes chosen to make prominent the syllables necessary ... to composers like Henry Lawes who First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent .
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SIR THOMAS MORE | 9 |
GEORCE GASCOIGNE | 99 |
SIR Philip SIDNEY | 105 |
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