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fire_n	air_n	earth_n	water_n	33,259	5	7.3420	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09578	A briefe and short instruction of the art of musicke to teach how to make discant, of all proportions that are in vse: very necessary for all such as are desirous to attaine to knowledge in the art; and may by practice, if they can sing, soone be able to compose three, foure, and five parts: and also to compose all sorts of canons that are usuall, by these directions of two or three parts in one, upon the plain-song. By Elvvay Bevin.	Bevin, Elway, ca. 1554-1638.	1631 (1631)	STC 1986; ESTC S101568	6,271	64

be made vpon a Plainsong but without the easiest of all other Many other wayes there are and are daily inuented by the skilfull as you shall perceiue by these examples that follow Canon Recte and Retro Another below Canon Recte and Retro Another Canon Recte and Retro There is also a kinde of double discant which is no Canon but somewhat of the nature of a Canon and sometime also made in a Canon Double discant The Principall In the Reply the Treble is set eight notes lower and made the Counter and the Base is set twelve notes higher and made the Treble the Plainsong set an eight lower and made the Base The reply Double discant in a Canon The principall In the Reply the higher of the principall is set an eight lower and made the Base and the Base set a fift higher and made the Counter and the Plainsong being the Treble set eight notes lower The Reply Diminution by turnes per Arsin Thesin Here are certaine Canons of three in one very difficult made of the Plainsong it selfe euery part contrary to other in nature These are compound Canons euen as the Apothecary maketh his confections of diuers simples compounded together of sundry wayes Recte and Retro per Arsin Thesin Canon Three in one per Arsin Thesin Another example per Arsin Thesin Canon Three in one Per Arsin Thesin Recte and Retro I haue set them downe very briefe and short and haue made choise of this Plainsong of purpose to the intent the Learner of Practitioner may the better conceiue of euery particular being also set downe in partition Per Arsin Thesin Example Recte and Retro per Arsin Thesin Canon three in one Example Canon three in one per Arsin Thesin making euery note a Semibriefe Take one and leaue one per Aug. So the Plainsong contained therein Canon three in one Foure in two 4. Voces Canon Canon per Arsin Thesin Another foure in two Canon Recte Retro per Arsin Thesin Canon Canon Diapente Another foure in two Canon Diapente Another of foure in two Canon subdiapente Canon subdiapente Per Augmentation Aliud crescit in Duplo Canon Three in one These Canons that follow are also very difficult to be made on any Plainsong Three in one of sundry proportions Canon three in one Crescit in Duplo Per Aug. per Arsin Thesin Another of like difficulty Canon per Arsin Thesin Aliud per Aug. Crescit in duplo leauing the rest at the beginning Per Arsin Thesin Canon three in one Fiue in two Recte Retro per Arsin Thesin Canon three in one Recte Retro Canon two in one Recte Retro A Mynome following Canon in diatessaron Ad placitum Canon per Arsin Thesin Ad placitum A note aboue Canon Nota superior Mynome and Crochet binding one vpon another Canon Double discant made in a Canon Canon Ad placitum In the Reply the Meane is made the Base set eight notes lower the Base is made the Meane set eight notes higher Canon A note aboue Canon Canon in the third This Canon singeth onely the Crochets Semibriefes the other onely the Crochets making them Briefes Canon Foure in two 4. Voces Canon Foure in two Canon Canon Here follow certaine Canons of diuerse and sundry sorts which are many of them very difficult to be made to any Plainsong This Canon may be sung after the manner of a Round falling a note at euery returne and falling note by note to the end Canon This Canon riseth a note at euery returne and riseth note by note to the end Canon three in one Diapente inferior making euery note a Semibriefe Two parts falling the third rising making euery note a Semibriefe Canon three in one The third part singeth onely the Mynomes making them Semibriefes per Aug. Canon three in one Vnison A Canon of three in one hath resemblance to the holy Trinity for as they are three distinct persons and but one God so are the other three distinct parts comprehended in one The leading part hath reference to the Father the following part to the Sonne the third to the holy Ghost Diapason Aliud per Arsin Thesin making euery note a Semibriefe Canon three in one A note aboue Another Canon three in one Rising a note at euery returne a fift one aboue another Canon three in one Rising a note at euery returne Canon three in one O Iesu dulcis remissio omnium peccatorum meorum O Iesu. Foure parts in two Canon Canon Fiue voc foure in two Canon Canon Fiue Voc. Ad placitum Canon three in one per Arsin Thesin Vnison Canon three in one Foure in two Ad placitum Canon Canon This taketh onely the Semibriefe Foure in two Canon in the third Ad placitum Canon Foure in two Canon Canon Foure in two Canon Canon Foure in two either part repeting that the other sung before Canon per Arsin Thesin Canon Vnison Canon three in one per Arsin Thesin Foure in two Canon Canon These Canons be of different natures therefore the more difficult Foure in two Canon per Arsin Thesin Canon Vnison This Canon is very difficult to make vpon any plainsong either part repeating that the other sung before Canon three in one per Arsin The sin Vnison Canon three in one per Aug. Vnison Per Aug. Ad placitum Fiue Voc. This Canon is to be prict in two seuerall colours Canon three in one The red is one part the blacke another the third part singeth both colours leauing all the Rests as appeareth below The Canon explained Here follow certaine Canons which are most difficult in composition by reason of the great variety of Canons contained in them This Canon hath a resemblance to the frame of this world for as this world doth consist of the foure Elements viz. Fire Ayre Water and the Earth and in either of them sundry liuing and moueable creatures So likewise this Canon consisteth and is deuided into foure seuerall Canons and to euery one belongeth fifteene parts a certaine number for an vncertaine The whole sixty parts are contained in these seuen These figures are set to distinguish the parts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 3 5 7 2 4 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 3 5 7 2 4 6 Here is to be noted that the following parts of euery Canon rest two Semibriefes after other euery Canon different in nature You shall vnderstand that in the Canon which is the red is diuided into foure seuerall Canons and to euery of them belongeth fifteene parts in the whole three score Two of these Canons are whole and two are halfe Canons because they take onely the later part which is the Semibriefe and Semibriefe Rest and are to be sung in diuers tunes according to the direction Bis binos capit Canon verosque Canones Integri duo sunt dimidiique