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Excerpt from The Distinctive Characteristics of Ancient Irish Melody: The Scales, a Plea for Restoration and Preservation, Being a Lecture Read on Monday Evening, 15th February, 1897, Before the National Literary Society
He came very near to the light, but his practice was not equal to his theory; or, must we ask, did he, too, like others, sometimes yield to the temptation of ?attering the modern ears, instead of keeping his work consistent with the antiquity of his material Petrie, Dr. Joyce, not to speak of others Of less mark, show in their harmonization, similar signs of imperfect method.l Even Dr. Parry, in his exhaustive essay upon scales, is shy when he comes to treat of the peculiarities of the Irish scale form.
Looking into the work Of such a man as Carl Engel, expecting there, if anywhere, to find firm ground, we meet confusion worse con founded. Indeed his definition of an Irish scale - he gives us only one - is the most ridiculous and farthest from the truth of any.
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He came very near to the light, but his practice was not equal to his theory; or, must we ask, did he, too, like others, sometimes yield to the temptation of ?attering the modern ears, instead of keeping his work consistent with the antiquity of his material Petrie, Dr. Joyce, not to speak of others Of less mark, show in their harmonization, similar signs of imperfect method.l Even Dr. Parry, in his exhaustive essay upon scales, is shy when he comes to treat of the peculiarities of the Irish scale form.
Looking into the work Of such a man as Carl Engel, expecting there, if anywhere, to find firm ground, we meet confusion worse con founded. Indeed his definition of an Irish scale - he gives us only one - is the most ridiculous and farthest from the truth of any.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - James Cooksey Culwick
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ISBN - 9781528262170
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Page Count - 35
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