izo A Compendium of Muße.

Mr. Ebay Bevin profefles fair, in the Title:Page-of his Book $ and gives us nuny Exam-pies of excellent and intricate Canons of diverslörts ; but not one Word of Inftmction how tomake fucb like.

Mr. M>rley in his IntroiwShn to Muße , pag.I72. Says thus \_A Canon may be madein avy di -ßance emprebended within the reacb of the Voice ,as the 3, y, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, it, 12, or other , butfor the Compoßtion of Canons no general Rute canbegiven , as that which is performed by plain fight ,tpberefore I wiü refer it to your own Study to findout.fuch Points as you fi)aü think fittejt to be fvllw d iand to fr ame and make them ft for your Canon ]

If, asMr. Morley fays,no general Rule can begiven, our Bufinefs muft be totry what helpswe can afford a ilearner towards theimkingofa Canon. I am the more inclined to offer un-toyou this little Eflay upori ir, becaufe the Ex*ercife thereof will much enable you in all otherkinds of Compoßtion * efpecially vyftere anything of Fuge is concerned, of which, it is rhePrincipal. And I will direft you in the fameMethod which 1 did before in contriving a fiqgleFuge : that is fitft, to let down your materialNotes * and then to accommodate your othe*Delcant to thofe Notes,

§ t. Canon of Tm Parts.

TY7 E will, for more eafe, begin with two Parts*and I will take the firft two Semibreves ofa former Fuge •, to let you fee the way and man*per ofit. The Canon fhall be fet in a $th. above?nd then your firft Notes will ftand thus :

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