John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopaedia of Music… (1880)
“ And the choice of the Person for that Work as Infinitely for the dignity of the Art : Since no less a Man, than the chief of their Monarchs, and the greatest of their Conquerors, was ordained by God, to be their Poet and Musician on that occasion. ”
John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopaedia of Music… (1880)
“ The excellent Art of Musick was thought by many of the Wisest Ancients, to have derived its Original immediately from Heaven ; as one of the First, most beneficial Gifts of the Divine Goodness to Mankind : thereby to draw and allure, the old, rude, and untaught World, into Civil Societies ”
John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopaedia of Music… (1880)
“ I dare affirm, that nothing but the unsociable sullenness of a Cynick, would ever exclude secular Musick, so qualified, out of Civil Societies; as nothing but the perverse sowerness of a Fanatick, would ever drive Divine Musick out of the Church. ”
