The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 628
awth (chrotta), which the Celtic bards played with marvellous skill(see Figs. 418 and 419). This music generally accompanied national songstinged with melancholy. The time was always slow and uniform, and theirmusical scale seems to have been made for the minor mode; the quick timeand major mode… … Fig-. 417.—Pneumatic Organ, Fourth Century. After a sculpture of the Gallo-Roman epoch, preserved in the Aries Museum. from an artistic point of view, and without becoming subject to fixed andintelligible rules. Religious music, on the contrary, was in the way of oncemore becoming a fixed science,…
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