Musick
has employ’d the Pens of many of the Learned, both Ancient and Modern, and has had the Benefit of an universal Character, which convey’d the harmonious Compositions to all Lovers of the
Art
in all Nations.
Dancing
, on the contrary, tho’ celebrated by Ancient Authors in an extraordinary manner, and with uncommon Praises, (as I shall shew in a Treatise, which I shall suddenly publish on that Subject) yet among the Moderns, it has been wholly unknown to the Learned, and destitute of all Pens, in either the speculative or practick part of the
Art
, which for want of an universal Character, was confin’d to the immediate Master and Scholar, or at farthest, to a narrow traditional Instruction, which none could participate of without a Teacher, who had been taught by some other, either Composer, or Scholar of such Composer. This Inconvenience at length stirr’d up Monsieur
Beauchamp
to begin what Monsieur