excerpt from 'Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney' pp. 220 (59 words)
excerpt from 'Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney' pp. 220 (59 words)
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In Provence and Languedoc through which I passed the songs of the country people are rather pretty - I got 'em to sing me some whereever I stopt - and the airs are national and simple - less wild than the Scots as less ancient, but I rather think these melodies the oldest since the invention of Guido's system. |
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