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Manner, as much as the Painters, Poets, or Sect. Professors of any of the nobler Arts. The An- VII. cients, whose Music was not so wild and irre- gular as ours, had marked these several Man ners, as they were fitted to this or the other Pajfion, and disposed the Hearers to such a par ticular Temper of Mind; and knew them by the Name of their Inventor, or of the Nation where they were principally practised. Thus, says Pol lux, * The Measures of Olympus and Matfyas P. 94. (u) and a little afterwards speak ing of the different Harmonies and their Ef fects, he says, ' The Phrygian Measure raises ' us to Enthusiasm, so that Olympus appears to be the Author of it. But the fullest Testimony is given by Plu tarch. " Oltmpus, says he, appears greatly to 95. (y) " have promoted Music, by introducing some s6" things that never had been invented, and were " wholly unknown to those before him ; and " particularly he appears to have been the Au" thor of the noble Species of the genuine Gre" cian Music?
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 * ral Tunes are particularly the Invention of O* lympus.' And Aristotle affirms, ' that Olym- ibid. (x)
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