The Music of Nature, Or an Attempt to Prove That What Is Passionate and Pleasing in the Art of Singing, Speaking, and Performing Upon Musical Instruments, Is Derived from the Sounds of the Animated World: With Curious and Interesting Illustrations

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The author of the following pages has been in the habit of listening to sounds of every description, and that with more than ordinary attention; but none have interested him so much as the cries of animds, and the song of birds. In the busy world, or in quiet and re pose, he has amused himself with taking down these germs of melody; and, had his pursuits led him more into rural life, a more ample col lection might have been made. The instances here recorded are a faithful transcript of the voice of Nature, and it will strike every one, that music has had its origin in these simple and immutable expressions. With these facts before him, he has taken a philosophical view of the science, and endeavoured to explain the true principles of musical taste and expression.

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