Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2010
The passages quoted from the Traité of Denis appeared in both the 1643 and 1650 editions. Minor typographical errors have been corrected without comment.
M. Mersenne, Nouvelles observations physiques et mathematiques (Paris, ca. 1638), p. 22.
Il est certain que les premiers Claviers n'ont eu que les 8 sons, & les 7 intervalles de la main harmonique de Guy Aretin, suivant les lettres A, B, C, D, E, F, G, a, dont j'ay parlé dans la premiere Prop. du 6 livre des Consonances, & souvent ailleurs; d'où il est arrivé que les feintes, ou dieses qui du depuis y ont esté ajoûtées, ont retenu le nom des marches principales, dont elles sont comme des dépendences, ou des supplémens: car la feinte éloignée d'un demiton mineur de C ut, est nommée la feinte de C sol ut, & ainsi des autres qui sont marquées du signe de diese dans la Musique pratique des notes, quoy que plusieurs marquent la feinte ou le fa d'E mi la, par le b mol, aussi bien que celle de b fa b mi, parce que ces 2 feintes ont les mesmes proprietez. Quant à la feinte de F ut, & G re, elles se marquent comme celle de C ut.
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