[86] See Example, Pl. VI. Numb. 2.
N.B. An Appoggiatura cannot be made on an unaccented Syllable.
[87] See for Examples, Pl. VI. Numb. 3.
[88] See for Examples, Pl. VI. Numb. 4.
[89] Some, after a tender and passionate Air, make a lively merry Cadence; and, after a brisk Air, end it with one that is doleful.
[90] Though this Chapter regards Singers who make it their Profession, and particularly those who sing on the Stage, yet there are many excellent Precepts interspersed, that are of Use to Lovers of Musick.
[91] Kyrie, the first Word of the Mass-Musick in the Cathedral Stile, is not so difficult to them as the Cantata's; and the Latin in the Service, being familiar to them, saves them the Trouble of attending to the Words.
[92] Thomas Morley (who lived above an hundred Years ago) in the third Part of his Treatise, pag. 179, speaking of Motetts or Anthems, complains thus:—'But I see not what Passions or Motions it can stir up, being as most Men doe commonlie Sing,—leaving out the Ditty—as it were a Musick made onely for Instruments, which will indeed shew the Nature of the Musick, but never carry the Spirit and (as it were) that lively Soule which the Ditty giveth; but of this enough. And to return to the expressing of the Ditty, the Matter is now come to that State, that though a Song be never so wel made, and never so aptly applyed to the Words, yet shall you hardly find Singers to expresse it as it ought to be; for most of our Church-men, (so they crie louder in the Quire then their Fellowes) care for no more; whereas, by the contrarie, they ought to study how to vowel and sing clean expressing their Words with Devotion and Passion, whereby to draw the Hearer as it were in Chaines of Gold by the Eares to the Consideration of holy Things. But this, for the most part, you shall find amongst them, that let them continue never so long in the Church, yea though it were twentie Years, they will never study to sing better than they did the first Day of their Preferment to that Place; so that it seems, that having obtained the Living which they sought for, they have little or no Care at all, either of their own Credit, or well discharging of that Dutie whereby they have their Maintenance.'
[93] In Italy, the Courts of Palma, Modena, Turin, &c. and in Germany, the Courts of Vienna, Bavaria, Hanover, Brandenbourg, Palatine, Saxony, &c.
[94] There have been such, who valued themselves for shaking a Room, breaking the Windows, and stunning the Auditors with their Voice.