Vitruvius Pollio, I dieci libri dell?architettura, 1567

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                  loro inſtrumenti. </s>
                  <s id="s.004605">La natura ha dato il potere di fare un tuono, & un ſemituono, ma l'arte ha
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                  ritrouato in che proportione ſia l'uno, & l'altro. </s>
                  <s id="s.004606">La natura ſecondo gli affetti ſpontanamente
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                  moue gli huomini, & le uoci, ma l'arte ha compreſo con uie ragioneuoli, & le quantità & le qua
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                  lità de i ſuoni, & ha meſcolato i generi, ritrouato le idee, applicate le forme alla natura delle co
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                  ſe: & queſto è quello, che Vitr. ha uoluto dire. </s>
                  <s id="s.004607">ſeguita poi & dichiara i ſuoni, & i uocaboli loro,
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                  & altre coſe pertinenti al propoſito noſtro.
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                  <s id="s.004608">I ſuoni, che Phtongi da Greci ſi chiamano, ſono diciotto, de i quali otto ſtanno ſem­
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                  pre fermi i tutti i tre generi: ma gli altri dieci quando communemente ſi cantano ſono
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                  inſtabili, & uaganti. </s>
                  <s id="s.004609">ſtanti, & fermi ſono quelli, che poſti tra i mobili contengono la con
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                  giuntione del Tetracordo, & per le differenze de i generi ſtanno ne iloro termini perma­
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                  nenti. </s>
                  <s id="s.004610">& ſi chiamano in queſto modo Aſſonto, primo de i primi, primo de i mezi, me­
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                  zano, ultimo de i congiunti. </s>
                  <s id="s.004611">preſſo al mezano, ultimo de i diſgiunti, ultimo de gli eccel­
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                  lenti. </s>
                  <s id="s.004612">Mobili ſono quelli, che nel tetracordo tra gli ſtabili ſono ne i generi diſpoſti, & ne
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                  i luoghi fanno mutatione, & ſi chiamano in queſto modo, vicino al primo de' primi, indi­
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                  ce de i primi, uicino al primo de i mezi, indice de i mezi, terzo de i congiunti, preſſo al­
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                  l'ultimo de i congiunti, terzo de i diſgiunti, preſſo all'ultimo de i diſgiunti, terzo delle
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                  eccellenti, preſſo all'ultimo delle eccellenti. </s>
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                  A me pare che Vitr. poteua meglio ordinare questo ſuo diſcorſo, perche adduce molte coſe,
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                  prima che hanno biſogno dello intendimento di altro, che egli pone dapoi: però noi procedere­
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                  mo ordinatamente. </s>
                  <s id="s.004614">Certo è che ogni ordinanza o ſcala, o Siſtema, che ſi dica, in muſica, è com­
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                  poſta di ſuoni. </s>
                  <s id="s.004615">ſuono è cadimento, o qualità indiuiſibile della uoce, la cui quantità o grandezza
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                  è certa, & determinata, & principio della melodia, & in quello come nel proprio elemento ogni
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