Universal Harmony (Harmonie Universelle)

when one uses ut twice, and re twice, and mi twice, or four times each. 148.

XIX. To determine the number of Songs that one can make from any number of notes one wishes, by varying the duration, or the measure of one, several, or all of the notes. 149. Where one sees an example of 256 Songs made from the four different notes of the Tetrachord A scale of four notes, the basis of ancient Greek music theory..

XX. To determine in how many different ways two or several voices can sing a Duo, or another piece of Music. 152.

XXI. To know if one can determine which is the best Song, and the sweetest of several proposed Songs, for example of the 24 of a Tetrachord. 154. Which are seen here.

XXII. How one must compose Songs and dances to be the most excellent of all possible ones: and if one can arrange ballets in such a way that one learns all the sciences while dancing, or while seeing others dance. 158. Where one sees the Te Deum laudamus original: "Te Deum laudamus"; a traditional Latin hymn of praise, "We praise thee, O God." set to verse.

XXIII. To explain and describe all the types of Airs, Songs, and Dances used in France, with examples. 163.

XXIV. To explain all the types of Branles A popular French group dance involving lateral steps, often performed in a circle or line. now used at balls and ballets. 167.

XXV. To explain the Dances and rhythmic movements of ordinary ballets, and particularly the Canary, the Bocanne, the Queen's Courante, the Bohemian, and the Morris Dance original: "Moresque.". 170.

XXVI. To determine if sad and languishing Songs are more agreeable than joyful ones. 172.

XXVII. To explain all the movements used in French Airs, particularly in Ballets, with an example; and simultaneously the feet Referring to poetic or rhythmic feet/meters. or rhythmic movements. 177.

40 Propositions of the Book of Consonances.

The Preface contains seven or eight very significant things that must be read: and most of the Corollaries that follow the Propositions contain several excellent moral lessons.

I. To determine if there are Consonances and Dissonances Consonances are intervals that sound harmonious or stable; dissonances sound clashing or "unresolved." in Music, and what they are. 1.

II. To determine the difference between Sound and Unison; and what the origin of Unison is. 5.

III. To explain in what manner Sound takes its origin from Unison. 7.

IV. To determine if Unison is a Consonance; and if it is sweeter and more agreeable than the Octave. 10. Where one sees several beautiful moral lessons for Preachers and devout persons.

V. Unison is the conjunction or union of two or several sounds, which resemble each other so perfectly that the ear receives them as a single sound; and it is the most powerful of all Consonances. 23. See the moral lessons for raising the spirit to God.

VI. To explain the reason and cause of the vibration original: "tremblement"; referring here to sympathetic vibration, where one string moves in response to another. of strings that are in Unison. 26. See excellent elevations of the spirit to devotion.

VII. To know if the ratio of inequality comes from that of equality, and the Consonances...