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BIBLIOTHECA

REGIA MONACENSIS.

QUEEN.

MADAM,

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HE condefcenfion with which your Majefty has been pleased to permit your name to ftand before the following History, may justly reconcile the author to his favourite ftudy, and convince him, that whatever may be faid by the profeffors of severer wisdom, the hours which he has bestowed upon Mufic have been neither dishonourably, nor unprofitably spent.

THE fcience of mufical founds, though it may have been depreciated, as appealing only to the ear,

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