A Concise Explanation of the Church Modes : With Remarks on the Mutations Which They Have Undergone Since the Inventions of the Hexachord and the Modern Tonal System of Music; To Which Is Added an Explanation of the Harmonies and Modulations Peculiar to Th

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To these (and they are but few. Of the) complaints, might be added that of the loss of the madrigal school of writing, another certain con sequence of the reduction of the modes to two, and the establishment of the modern laws of modulation.

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