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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Title: 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.
Author: Ornithoparchus, Andreas, 16th cent.
Publication: London :: Printed [by Thomas Snodham] for Thomas Adams, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the white Lion,; [1609]
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Of the Diuision of Tact.

TAct is three-fold, the greater, the lesser, and the proportionate. The greater is a Measure made by a slow, and as it were reciprocall motion. The writers call this Tact the whole, or totall Tact. And, because it is the true Tact of all Songs, it comprehends in his motion a Semibreefe not dimini∣shed: or a Breefe diminished in a duple.

The lesser Tact, is the halfe of the greater, which they call a Semitact. Be∣cause it measures by it motion a Semibreefe, diminished in a duple: this is allowed of onely by the vnlearned.

The Proportionate is that, whereby three Semibreefes are vttered against one, (as in a Triple) or against two, as in a Sesquialtera. Of this we shall speake more at large in the Chapter of proportions.