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A09922	The praise of musicke wherein besides the antiquitie, dignitie, delectation, & vse thereof in ciuill matters, is also declared the sober and lawfull vse of the same in the congregation and church of God.	Case, John, d. 1600, attributed name.	1586 (1586)	STC 20184; ESTC S115011	65,829	162

fostered by curteous speeches with other not vnlike so in the time of solemnising the same they had choise set songs appointed for the purpose The Grecians generally by report of Aristophanes one of their Poets sang Hymen O Hymaenaee O Hymen Calling vpon the name of him whom they made their chiefe superintendent ouer such matters And Plato in his booke intitled Gorgias makes mention of this dittie as peculiarly belonging to those festiual times Formosum esse diuitē bene valere summū existimatur bonū Wilt thou be blessed and happie indeede Be faire rich and healthy if thou wilt speede The Atheniās one of y e best flours in greece sang incōditū carmen perhaps some blacke saunt w tout order or distinction it is reported to be this Bonos ama timidos repelle scimus enim timidorū paruā esse vbique gratiā Embrace loue the good the carpet knights repel How litle fauor they haue foūd elswhere who knowes not wel I wil end w t death the end of al mortality which though it be the dissolutiō of nature parting of the soul frō the body terrible in it self to flesh blood amplified w t a nūber of displeasant vncōfortable accidents as the shauing of the head howling mourning apparel funeral boughes of yeu box cipresse the like yet we shal find by resorting to antiquities that musick hath had a share amōgst them as being vnseasonable at no time I let passe the Thraciās with their triūphes iubilies for the happy estate of their deceased friēds kinsfolk The Lybiās most honorable mētion of those principally which were slain either by elephāts or other wild beasts or spēt their blood liuelihood in y e field for maintenāce of their coūtry I cānot omit w tout iniury to their thākfulnes mine owne cause The rather sith y e cause which moued thē to these exigēts cānot be vngrateful to any loial wel disposed eares Autumn winds are not so cōmon as authorities if I would vse thē Euery grāmer scholer that openeth but an orator poet or historiographer shal see trumpets pshalms singings attributed to funerals And to reduce al vains to the hart al autorities to one head if there were no such remēbring of the dead why haue they deified a goddes of these songs that as Ianꝰ amōgest them was the first god to open the dore entrāce of their liues so Maenia shold be the last to do them any seruice by quickning them after their deathes and raising vp a second life by a wailful and yet musical commemoration of their laudable deserts THE PARTICVLER VSE of musicke in warlike matters CHAP. VIII NOw because musick is reported to be belli pacis alūna vel comes either the daughter or cōpaniō both of war peace I wil set the palm oliue togither as I haue bin short in declaring her peaceable vse so I will take the neerest course that may bee in this warlik treatise Though painters Poets are commonly allowed to ly yet I am sure Theon expressed no more colours than is true in life when he drewe an armed man in compleat harnesse ready to make excursion vppon his enimies and to all mens thinking animated and incouraged therunto by the clamorous soundes of a Musitian I appeale not now to mens integritie and vprightnesse of iudgementes I make prouocation to them as they are men Let them speake if the drum fife trumpet do not excite their spirits make their hearts euen to swel to the ouerthrow of their enimies The kings of Persia first sang a song to Caster Pollux then made incounter with their aduersaries The Lacedaemonians vsed Pshalms whose captain Agesilaus being demanded of one not so wise as curious I will not say hee was a ringleader to our froward questionists now adayes to what end purpose be did it made answere that hereby he was assured of euery mans minde courage For if his pases were consonant and according to measures then it argued he was not appalled If disagreeing it argued that he was faint harted Now if it be expedient for a captaine to knowe whether his souldiers be harts or Lions whose good cheerful harts are the first step to the winning of the field then it is consequent that Musicke should be a Lydius lapis the right touchstone to try their minds Nowe besides the aduertisement giuen hereby to the captaine our own side is incited the aduerse parts amased astonished For which causes all nations ciuil barbarous though in diuerse sorts yet vpon one the selfe same ground haue made euen the earth shake the heauens ring either with outcries braying howling singing clattering of their armour as the old Germanes and frenchmen or with tabering vpon their wagon pelts as the Cimbrians or with drums great iron hāmers as the Parthians or with a gentler and remisser kind of Musicke with their harping or piping or winding the cornets or sounding trumpets or tinkling their cimbals as the Lydians Hetrurians Arcadians Cicilians Corinthians Syrians Troians Aegyptians Arabians and to speake in one word no one word so true al countries Amongst which Athens the mother nurse of the best literature was accustomed to sing hymns to Apollo and Iupiter for the better speeding of their doubtful voiages And Rome the lady Queene of al other cities if they may be credited in their own cause vsed first an oxe horne til Tyrrhenus had deuised the brasen trūpet prouided notwithstanding that in any expeditiō of silēce they gaue but a watch word only without any soūd of instrumēts THE LAVVFVL VSE OF MVSICKE IN THE CHVRCH confirmed by the practise of the church CHAP. IX NOw although there be none but few men so senselesse blockish by nature or of dispositiō so peuish waiward that taking no delight in Musick thēselues measuring y e worth price therof by their own affectiōs do accoūt of it as a thing either vain vnlawful or idle vnprofitable yet there be many who albeit they allow a moderate sober vse of it in ciuil matters do notwithstanding cast it out of the church as an vncleane thing will vouchsafe it no place in the seruice of God But if the vse thereof be proued to be not lawfull only in the church but profitable also and decent by the practise of the church at all times the opinion of the best learned in all ages and the authority of the Scriptures themselues in many places I trust that these men will reforme their opinions from thinking so basely of it or refraine their tounges from inueighing so bitterly against it And first as touching the practise of the church they are not ignorant that the most anciēt church of the Iewes which receiued the doctrine of truth which it beleeued the precepts of life which it obserued the

no sufficiēt warrant of the spring yet standing in for 〈◊〉 of many witnesses as being borne out b● common sense and practise of our dayes required a double fee of other mens scholers one to make them forgette what the● had taught thē another to make thē learn● what he himselfe would teach them S● then if both the matter taught and the maner of teaching haue seene as many alterations as almost ages who can imagin● that so great a dissent of the kindes can stā● without as great diuersitie of the authors But to come neerer home and to speak● of the other sort of Musicke which hath a while beene preuented by this needelesse digression although we be nowe adaies fallen into a kind of intemperancie and wantonnesse especially in the framing of instrumentes in so much that the diuising of them is not so great a trouble as their naming yet antiquitie the mother of simplicitie and singlenesse in the greatest part of artificiall thinges both contented her selfe with meaner choice incombred her selfe with smaller busines In those times three colours did serue for painting and three instruments for playing Nowe the Painters ●●op may vie with the rainebow for colors ●art hath almost gone beyond it selfe for in●●ruments But to leaue both the greater ●●e later number of them which are made 〈◊〉 the imitation of the former there is no ●uestion but as the dignity of these three ●boue the rest is to be maintained so their ●●der amongest them-selues not to bee ●eglected For by the iudgemēt of Alcibia●es the harpe is to be preferred before the whistling pipe or pshalms because it leaues 〈◊〉 roume for the voice wheras the other pos●essing the whole wind and breath of man ●ispossesse him of that seruice Touching the original hereof it is repor●ed that when Nilus had ouer-washed the countrie of Aegypt afterwards drank in ●is waters againe into his seuen mouthes being so many streames or chanels amōgst many other fishes which perished on the dry lād being in a sort betraied by that element wherein their nature is preserued the Tortuise also came short Mercury coasting along that way toke vppe one of them and finding nothing thereon but a fewe of parched or withered sinewes tied them with his fingers wherewith they made some offer of a musicall noise The experiment is wel known lippis tonsoribus to the meanest and simpleir persons amongest vs. For euerie childe holding a threede or haire in his mouth and striking it with his finger shall finde the like partly by the motion of his finger wherthrough the solid is caused and partly by the hollownesse of the mouth whereby it is tuned Mercurie hauing gotten this hold tooke occasiō to set abroch his cunning For he fashioned a peece of wood proportionable to the shel of a fish and put thereon three strings distinct in sounds answerable to the three seasōs After this first onset which for the most part carieth both the greatest daunger and the greatest creditte Terpander made vppe seauen stringes in honor of the seuen Atlantides which go vnder the name of our seuē stars Simonides and Timotheus brought them to nine in reuerēce of the nine Muses Thus Mercuries handsell set the market in a good happy forwardnes This instrumēt being as wel for the nouelty as excellencie strange was presented by report of some to Apollo in lue whereof he recōpensed Mercurie w t his heraulds rod called Caduceus Hoc animas ille euocat orco Pallentes alias sub tristia Tartara mittit Herewith he calles some soules from Hel And sends down others there to dwell By witnesse of others it was giuen to Orpheus wherewith he brought euen senslesse thinges to a sense and feeling of his sweetnes and lifelesse creatures to a liuely stirring motion of their vnarticulate bodies And when Orpheus was torne in pieces by the drunken Bacchides his head and harpe swam downe the riuer Hebrus and were taken vp at Lesbos where they buried the one and hung vp the other in the temple to their gods Thus the harpe liued after Orpheus was dead and made a manifest proofe how highly it disdained to be handled by vnskilful prophane fingers reuenging euen vnto the death a presumptuous act cōmitted by Naearchꝰ This yong man being the king of Miteleus son bargained with the priestes of the tēple for Orpheus his harpe because as the practise of musick was cōmēdable amongest them so the greater euery mans skill was the better was his recompēce Now Naearchus hauing a mind to the best game and putting more affiance in the vertue of the harpe than his owne cunning gotte by night into the suburbes and there iangled the stringes so long till at length he was rent asunder by dogges Thus was his Musicke vnsauerie thus was his death vntimely But to proceede the first that euer sang to the harp which is either the only or chiefe reason why it is preferred before wind instrumentes was Linus Whose vngracious scholer Hercules being controlled by him for his rawnes made such vntoward Musike betwixt his Maisters harpe and his head that he beat out the sides of the one and the braines of the other Although some displace him from the honour of this inuention and ascribe it rather to Amphion Nowe among the winde instrumentes the Pshalme was deuised either by Euterpe one of the nine Muses or else by Ardalus Vulcans sonne made at the first of the shāke bones of cranes and therefore called Tibia by the Latines Although afterwardes it was framed of the baytree in Lybia of box in Phrygia of the boans of hinds in Thebes in Scythia of rauēs eagles in Aegypt of barly stalks so accordingly at other times in other places of other matters But the most voices run vppon Minerua the daughter of Iupiter and one who for her wisedom is said to be borne of Iupiters braine And because euerie artificer loueth his owne worke Minerua was delighted with her pipe and vsed euen in the assemblie of the gods very much to winde it till such time till both they draue her both from her Musike and their presence by laughing at her blowen cheekes Shee to make triall of the matter went down to a riuer side beholding her swelling face in Neptunes glas bid her pipe farewell in a great choler loathing disgracing the same as much as it disfigured her This pipe left not so good a Mistresse but it lighted on as bad a Master Marsias by name whom it caused so to swel not in face but in heart that hee chalenged prouoked Apollo to a musical combate and being ouercom lost the best and nearest coate to his back hauing his skinne pluckt ouer his eares for attempting so bold an enterprise The vse and effect of this as also other instrumēts I referre to their places In the meane while I followe my purpose Touching the whistling pipes which

that the Hart and other wilde beastes are by sweete and pleasant notes drawen into the toiles and gins of the huntesman AElianus in his varia historia testifieth that Pythocaris a musition playing vpon his Cornet mitigated the fierce and rauenous nature of wolues and that the mares of Libia and Oliphantes of India woulde followe the sound of Organes and diuers other instruments Now as these terrestriall beasts haue their peculiar and proper delightes so aquaticall creatures also liuing in another element offer themselues voluntarily to the sound of Musicke so as Martianus recordeth certaine fishes in the poole of Alexandria are with the noice of instruments inticed to the bankes side offering themselues to mens handes so long as the melody endureth Wonderfull are those thinges which in good authors are related of the dolphin but for our purpose none so fit as that of Arion whose excellent skill in Musicke giueth testimony aswell against the sauage and barbarous cruelty of those vnnaturall shipmen which sought to take away his life as to the gentle and kinde nature of the dolphin which is both a louer of men and an earnest follower of musicke Arion seeing no way to escape the furie of his cruel enemies tooke his Citterne in his hand and to his instrument sang his last song where-with not only the dolphines flocked in multitudes about the ship readie to receiue him on their backes but euen the sea that rude and barbarous element being before roughe and tempestuous seemed to allay his choler waxing calme on a sodaine as if it had beene to giue Arion quiet passage through the waues There is also a third kinde of liuing creatures which by the Philosophers are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they liue both on the land in the waters Of these I wil only name the Swanne which bird is therefore saide to bee vnder the patronage of Apollo not only for that shee is allured with the sweet notes and mellodious concent of musicke following them which plaie vppon instruments on the water but more especially because she seemeth to haue som diuination from him whereby she foreseing what good is in death by a naturall instinct finisheth her life with singing and with ioy Sic vbi fata vocant vdis abiectis in herbis Ad vada Maeandri concinit albus olor When death the swanne assaies Laid prostrate on the ground Her song doth make Maeanders bankes her dolors to resounde As for those other creatures which liue in the aire I do not think that the fouler could euer haue made such spoil hauock of them beeing so far out of his reach iurisdiction had not nature told him that they aboue all creatures vnder the heauēs are as most delited so soonest intangled allured with his songs Wherfore when thou seest each foul in his kind the Linet the Nightingale the Lark to mount aloft sing their notes vnto the skies shewe thy selfe docill in these two thinges first in acknowledging the delight which both thou takest in thē they in musick secondly learn by their exāple what thy duty is ought to be in grateful singing of psalms and songs to him that made thee Lastly y t I may not omit those which the heathnish poets wise mē counted inferior indeed to the gods but better thā men how worthily I will not heere stand to debate euen they testifie also of thē y t they take infinite pleasure in musik As whē Silenus sang his song of the beginning of the world vnto Chronis Mnasilus Aegle y t faire nimphe Tū vero in numerū Faunos Satyrosque videres Ludere tū regidas motare cacumina quercus Then mightst thou see the Faunes and satyres daunces lead The Cypresse trees to shake and sturdie okes their head So when Pan Apollo stroue whether of them was the better Musitian Deseruere sui nimphae vineta Timoli Deseruere suas nimphae pactolides vndas When Pan for lawrell branche in song with faire Apollo stroue Pactolus nimphes forsook their stream and Tmolus nimphes their groue Homer is not afraid to ascēd a litle higher shewing that euē the gods Iupiter himself are content to giue a patiēt eare to musical concent therupon in that banquet of y e gods where Vulcan plaid the skinker hee maketh Apollo the Muses singing a song 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus they in banquetting consumde the day Nor faire nor mirth was wanting to their will While faire Apollo on his harpe did play The Muses answering with aequal skil Pithagoras and his sectatours thought that the world did not consist without musical proportion and concent And therefore both he the best philosophers ascribe vnto euery Celestiall sphere one Goddesse or Muse which is the gouernes ruler therof because there are eight of those spheres the seuen planets and the eight which is called the firmament therefore they made 8. peculiar Muses attributing to Luna the muse Clio to Mercurius Euterpe to Venus Thalia to Sol Melpomene to Mars Terpsichore to Iupiter Erato to Saturne Polymnia to the firmamēt or coelum stellatum Vrania and because of eight particular soundes or voices keeping due proportion and time must needes arise an harmony or concent which is made by them all therefore that sound which al these make is called Calliope And hence is that pleasant harmony of the celestial globes caused which Pythagoras so much speaketh of If then both Gods and men and vnreasonable creatures of what kind soeuer be allured and mitigated with musicke we may safely conclude that this proceedeth from that hidden vertue which is between our soules and musicke and be bold with Pindarus to affirme that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Al those things that Iupiter doth not loue do only contemne the songs of the Muses THE EFFECTS AND OPERATION OF MVSICKE Chap. 4. IN the former chapter was gathered a proofe and demonstration of the sweetnesse of Musick proceeding frō the causes to the effects Now I meane by the contrarie demonstration to proue the delectation thereof from the effects to the causes For it cannot be but that as the conueniēce and agreement which musicke hath with our nature is the cause of the delectation thereof So the pleasure and delectation is also the cause of those effectes which it worketh as well in the minds as bodies of them that heare it Musick being in it selfe wholly most effectuall importeth much of his force and efficacie euen to the peculiar partes and portions thereof And therevpon auncient writers make the distinction of songs and notes in musicke according to the operations which they worke in their hearers calling som of them chast and temperate some amarous and light othersome warlike others peaceable some melancholicke and dolefull other pleasant and delightfull And yet this diuision is not so auncient as that