17TH-CENTURY FILES
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Author: Ravenscroft, Thomas
Title: A Briefe Discourse
Source: Thomas Ravenscroft, A BRIEFE DISCOVRSE Of the true (but neglected)
vse of Charactering the Degrees by their Perfection, Imperfection, and Diminution in
Measurable Musicke, against the Common Practise and Custome of these Times (London:
Edward Allde for Thomas Adams, 1614; reprint ed., with an introduction by Ian Payne,
Clarabricken, Kilkenny, Ireland: Boethius Press, 1984) [STC 20756].
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Incipit: MVsicke in ancient times, was held in as great Estimation, Reuerence, and Honour