Chelys, minuritionum artificio exornata, sive, Minuritiones ad basin, etiam ex tempore modulandi ratio in tres partes distributa = The division-viol, or, The art of playing ex tempore upon a ground, divided into three parts ... / authore Christophoro Simpson.

Title

Chelys, minuritionum artificio exornata, sive, Minuritiones ad basin, etiam ex tempore modulandi ratio in tres partes distributa = The division-viol, or, The art of playing ex tempore upon a ground, divided into three parts ... / authore Christophoro Simpson.

Author

Simpson, Christopher, d. 1669.

Publication

London :: Printed by W. Godbid for Henry Brome ...,

1667.

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Subject terms

Viols -- Instruction and study -- Early works to 1800.

Thorough bass -- Instruction and study.

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Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• TO HIS EVER HONOURED PATRON Sir IOHN BOLLES Bart.
• EXIMIAE NOBILITATI, DOCTRINAE, VIRTUTI cum summa Musices harmonia consono adolescenti, ILLUSTRISSIMO DOMINO, D. IOANNI BOLLES, ANGLO, ROBERTI BARONET. HAEREDI FILIO.
• ODE JACOBI ALBANI GHIBBESII, MED. DOCT. AC IN ROMANA SAPIENTIA ELOQ. PROF. PRIMARII.
• colophon
• To the Reader.
• Ad Musices Amatorem.
• Nomenclatura quarundam vocum in gratiam Tyronum variè reddita.
• table of contents
  • Elenchus eorum quae hoc libro Continentur.
    • Parte Primâ.
    • Parte Secundâ.
    • Parte Tertiâ.
  • The Contents of the Book.
    • In the First Part.
    • In the Second Part.
    • In the third Part.
• license to reprint
• illustration
• text
  • CHELYS, Minuritionum Artificio Exornata.
    • PARS PRIMA. Chelyos tractandae Praecepta.
      • De Chely ipsâ, qualis Minuritionibus maximè quadret, & quomodo con∣cinnanda.
      • De Plectro seu Arcu Musico.
      • De Collocatione Chelyos.
      • Quomodo tenendus et movendus Arcus.
      • De Sinistrae Collocatione, Motuque.
      • De Chelyos Chordotoniâ ad Scalam Musicam accommodatâ.
      • Quâ ratione eaedem Notae in diversis Chordis exprimi possint.
      • Quare Digiti sinistrae in eâdem saepè sede continuandi sint.
      • Regula movendi Arcum.
      • Quo ordine Digiti Canoni applicandi sint.
      • Quis motus Brachio dextro, Manusque juncturae conveniat.
      • Quomodo plures simul Notae perstrin∣gendae sint.
      • De Triplis.
      • De Sonorum blanditiis at{que} Leporibus.
      • Lepôres ex tremoribus oriundi.
    • PARS SECUNDA.
      • Melothesiae Compendium.
      • De Intervallis.
      • De Concordantiis.
      • Transitio Concordantiarum.
      • De Melothesiae Clavi seu Tono.
      • Quâ ratione Bassus conformandus sit.
      • Quo pacto Cantus Basso adstruendus sit.
      • De Triphoniis.
      • De Tetraphoniis.
      • De Sexta.
      • Quis Discordantiis locus sit.
      • De Tritono, & Semidiapente.
      • Contemplatio Concordantiarum Musica∣rum.
      • Musicarum Concordantiarum Analogia ad Planetarum aspectus.
    • CHELYS, Minuritionum Artificio Exornata. PARS TERTIA.
      • Quâ ratione Minuritiones ad Basin ap∣tandae sint.
      • Minuritionum genera.
      • Minuritio Fundamentalis.
      • Minuritio Melothetica.
      • Minuritio Mixta
      • Cadentiarum duo genera.
      • De Quintis & Octavis in Minuri∣tione.
      • De Sextis & Tertiis in Minu∣ritione.
      • De Semiminimis.
      • De Fusis.
      • De b Molli & Duro.
      • Minuritionum Syntaxis.
      • De Basi Continua,
      • Minuritiones singulari Chely quâ ra∣tione aptandae.
      • Quâ Methodo duae Cheles Basi alludere debent.
      • Minuritiones plurium Partium Compo∣nendi ratio.
  • The DIVISION-VIOL, OR The Art of Playing ex tempore to a GROUND.
    • THE FIRST PART.
      • Of the VIOL it self, with Instructions how to Play upon it.
      • § 2. What kind of Viol is fittest for Division, and how to be accomoda∣ted.
      • § 3. What kind of Bow.
      • § 4. How to hold or place the Viol.
      • § 5. How to hold and move the Bow.
      • § 6. The posture of the Left Hand.
      • § 7. How the Viol is Tuned, and applyed to the Scale of Musick.
      • § 8. How the same Notes may be play'd upon different Strings.
      • § 9. A Rule for Holding on the Fingers.
      • § 10. A Rule for the Motion of the Bow.
      • § 11. Of ordering the fingers in gra∣dual Notes.
      • § 12. The Motion of the Right Arm and Wrist.
      • § 13. How to order the Bow in dou∣ble Stops.
      • § 14. Of Tripla's.
      • § 15. Concerning the Gracing of Notes.
      • § 16. Shaked Graces.
    • SECOND PART.
      • § 1. Ʋse of the Concords, or a Com∣pendium of Descant.
      • § 2. Of Intervalls.
      • § 3. Of the Concords.
      • § 4. Passage of the Concords.
      • § 5. Concerning the Key or Tone.
      • § 6. How to frame a Bass.
      • § 7. How to joyn a Treble to the Bass.
      • § 8. Composition of three Parts.
      • § 9. Composition of four Parts.
      • § 10. Concerning a Sixth.
      • § 11. Ʋse of Discords.
      • § 12. Of the excessive Fourth, and Defective Fifth.
      • § 13. Reflections upon the Concords of Musick.
      • § 14. The Analogy of Musical Concords to the Aspects of the Planets, illu∣strated in the following Scheme.
    • The DIVISION-VIOL, OR The Art of Playing ex tempore to a GROUND. THIRD PART.
      • § 1. Of Division, and the manner of performing it.
      • § 2. Several kinds of Division.
      • § 3. Breaking the Ground.
      • § 4. Descant Division.
      • § 5. Mixt Division.
      • § 6. Cadences of two sorts.
      • § 7 Concerning Fifths and Eighths in Division.
      • § 8. Concerning Sixths and Thirds in Division.
      • § 9. Of Crochets.
      • 10. Of Quavers.
      • § 11. Of b Flat and Sharp.
      • § 12. Concerning ordering of Division.
      • § 13. Of a Continued Ground.
      • § 14. Of Composing Division for one Viol to a Ground.
      • § 15. Of two Viols Playing together ex tempore to a Ground.
      • § 16. Of Composing Divisions of Two or Three Parts.
• Minuritiones, Tyronum exercitationi, accommodoe.