Degrees, or Tones Musicall

A COMPENDIUM (Page 20)

We answer, that, from this Instance, our Assertion is rather confirmed, than infirmed.

An Eighth is so set because it comprehends an Unison in it self.

And so, those 2 voices resound in the eare as one; which happens not in a Fifth, whose Terms are more different among themselves, and therefore possess, and exercise the Hearing more fully;

From whence a certain weariness and loathing would arise forthwith, if it were set alone, and without Variety in Tunes. This may be exemplified thus; we should be sooner weary if we were constantly fed with Sugar, and Sweat-meats, than if with bread alone; which every man will allow not, in any proportion, comparable for sweetness and blandishment of the palate, to Sugar.