CHAP. X.
Of Passages or Graces.
assages or Graces being the principal Ornaments in Singing, and the most favourite Delight of the Judicious, it is proper that the Singer be very attentive to learn this Art.
§ 2. Therefore, let him know, that there are five principal Qualifications, which being united, will bring him to admirable Perfection, viz. Judgment, Invention, Time, Art, and Taste.
§ 3. There are likewise five subaltern Embellishments viz. the Appoggiatura, the Shake, the putting forth of the Voice, the Gliding, and Dragging.
The principal Qualifications teach,
§ 4. That the Passages and Graces cannot be form'd but from a profound Judgment.
§ 5. That they are produced by a singular and beautiful Invention, remote from all that is vulgar and common.
§ 6. That, being govern'd by the rigorous, but necessary, Precepts of Time, they never transgress its regulated Measure, without losing their own Merit.