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The violin and its music, 1881
2 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 34. See the scan on archive.org.
1course of musical progress further than is needed to render tolerably clear those parts of it which touch upon instrumental music, and more particularly that for stringed instruments. That Okeghem opened up what is called the new school of Flemish Music; that he carried the art of writing Canons to a lofty height; that his illustrious pupil Josquin (whom Burney names "The Father of Modern Harmony") took up the standard of musical excellence borne by his master, and planted it at such an altitude as to gain for him the plaudits of the whole musical world, past and present, that he wrote Masses and Motetts of extraordinary excellence, form the chief historical facts which may be noticed without becoming tedious.
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