Universal Harmony (Harmonie Universelle)

XIX. To reduce all sorts of movements into verse, and to explain for this purpose the true French pronunciation of the letters of the Alphabet. 376.

XX. To explain all the syllables that are long, common, or short, and to provide rules for establishing French Prosody Prosody is the study of the patterns of rhythm and sound in poetry.. 381.

XXI. To explain everything concerning poetic feet and measured verse In the 17th century, "measured verse" (vers mesurés) was an attempt to adapt the quantitative meters of ancient Greek and Latin—based on long and short vowel sounds—into the French language., and particularly the Hexameter and Pentameter, Dactylic, and the Sapphic. 384.

XXII. To explain Phalaecian, Iambic, Trochaic, Alcaic, and Asclepiadean verses. 387.

XXIII. To explain Anapests, Paeonics, major and minor Ionics, Choriambics, Antispastics, and others. 389.

XXIV. To explain the attempts produced in this century to establish French Prosody and Metrical Poetry in favor of Music. 393. Wherein one sees an Ode by Horace set to Music.

XXV. To determine the great multitude of movements that are made by changing the time signatures, or the notes of a measure used in singing. 396.

XXVI. To explain the use of the preceding variety of movements or times; and to show that Practitioners Mersenne uses this term for professional musicians and composers who work by ear or tradition rather than by scientific or mathematical theory. misuse the terms "ternary" and "binary" when they speak of their measures. 398.

XXVII. To explain Rhythmopoeia The art of composing rhythmic patterns., or the method for creating beautiful movements for all types of subjects. 401. Wherein one sees an excellent branle to lead A "branle" was a popular type of communal French dance performed by a line or circle of dancers..

XXVIII. To give examples of all kinds of movements used by the ancients, and to show those of our rhymed verses, and the art of finding them in all types of verse. 406.

XXIX. To give examples of the diminution A musical technique where long notes are broken down into many shorter, faster notes as a form of decoration or "divisions." and the embellishment of Songs, and the art of adorning and beautifying them. 410. Wherein one sees examples from Messrs. Boësset and Moulinié Antoine Boësset and Étienne Moulinié were two of the most celebrated composers of "airs de cour" in the court of Louis XIII..

XXX. To explain the manner of singing the Odes of Pindar and Horace, and of making French verses—both rhymed and measured—as suited for Music as the verses of the Greek and Latin Poets are. 415. Wherein one sees an Ode? by Pindar and another by Horace set to Music; and another example of measured French verse.

XXXI. To explain the Major and Minor Modes, perfect and imperfect time, and perfect and imperfect prolation A term from medieval and Renaissance music theory describing the rhythmic relationship between the smallest note values., along with the proper characters used by Practitioners. 420.

XXXII. To explain the manner of singing all kinds of measures under all kinds of time, without using the preceding characters, and to propose what seems most difficult in the Rhythmic theory of the ancients. 423.

XXXIII. To explain the most notable points from Saint Augustine’s six books on Rhythmic Music. 424. Wherein one sees an excellent Paraphrase of the Psalm "By the Rivers of Babylon" Original Latin title: "Super flumina Babylonis" (Psalm 137)., in French verse, and several remarks for our measured verses.

XXXIV. To determine if it is appropriate to use any of the species of the Chromatic or Enharmonic Genres of the Greeks to sing rhymed and measured verse with as much perfection as they did. 438. Wherein one sees the Octave divided into 24 Enharmonic dieses In ancient Greek theory, a "diesis" is a very small musical interval, smaller than a semitone., and the errors of this 6th book, along with some others that must all be corrected before reading these books, as I have already said in several places.

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