Attempt at a New Theory of Music

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We have pursued at greater length the most perfect reconciliation for the pious The author likely refers to "the faithful" or "devout" listeners, suggesting music's role in a spiritual context, and we have explained to how many various modes of composing it may be adapted. Nevertheless, we have also presented several more complex types, so that it may appear how much further expansion music is even now capable of receiving. Then, returning to the diatonic-chromatic A system using both the standard natural scales and the sharps/flats that fall between them genus, we have enumerated all the consonances intervals that sound harmonious or stable to the ear which can find a place in this genus, and we have indicated in what manner each one is to be brought forth most sweetly. Finally, we have treated the doctrine of musical modes The precursors to modern keys, such as Dorian or Phrygian more accurately than has been possible until now, and we have subdivided the individual modes into their own species and systems. By these means, it seems that no small amount of light is shed upon musical composition. All these things, however, we propose only as the first foundations upon which a complete theory of music must be built; we leave the further development and the adaptation to practice original: "praxin" to those who are experienced.