Of the number of the Moodes.
NOw the vsuall Interuals are in number 9, viz. a Semitone, and that is a rising from one Voyce to another, (by an imperfect second) sounding
Andreas Ornithoparcus his Micrologus, or Introduction: containing the art of singing Digested into foure bookes. Not onely profitable, but also necessary for all that are studious of musicke. Also the dimension and perfect vse of the monochord, according to Guido Aretinus. By Iohn Douland lutenist, lute-player, and Bachelor of Musicke in both the Vniuersities. 1609.
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- Andreas Ornithoparcus his Micrologus, or Introduction: containing the art of singing Digested into foure bookes. Not onely profitable, but also necessary for all that are studious of musicke. Also the dimension and perfect vse of the monochord, according to Guido Aretinus. By Iohn Douland lutenist, lute-player, and Bachelor of Musicke in both the Vniuersities. 1609.
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"Andreas Ornithoparcus his Micrologus, or Introduction: containing the art of singing Digested into foure bookes. Not onely profitable, but also necessary for all that are studious of musicke. Also the dimension and perfect vse of the monochord, according to Guido Aretinus. By Iohn Douland lutenist, lute-player, and Bachelor of Musicke in both the Vniuersities. 1609." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08534.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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flatly: and it is onely betwixt the Voyces Mi, fa. It is called a Semitone, not because it is halfe a Tone, (for a Tone cannot be diuided into two equall parts) but because it is an imperfect Tone, for Semum is called that which is imperfect, as saith Boêtius lib. 1. cap. 16. Of how many sorts a Semitone is, I shall hereafter in my Theoricks discusse.
A Tone (as Faber Stapulensis writeth) is the beginning of Consonances: or it is a Consonance caused by the number of eight. For Macrobius saith, that the eight, is an number, by which Symphonie is bred; which Sympho∣nie the Graecians call a Tone. Or it is the distance of one Voyce from ano∣ther by a perfect second, sounding strongly, so called a Tonando, that is, Thundring. For Tonare, (as Ioannes Pontifex 12. cap. 8. saith) signifieth to thunder powerfully. Now a Tone is made betwixt all Voyces excepting mi and fa, consisting of two smaller Semitones, and one Comma.