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NATIONAL MUSIC OF IRELAND. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. In the
absence of direct proof, and if even the light of the historic page
were denied as, yet we could form, in most instances, a tolerably
accurate idea of the mental intelligence attained by any people, by
observing the degree of cultivation bestowed on science and on the
finer arts; and the Poetry, National Music, Architecture, and
Sculpture, would form so many monuments, which, to the practised
ear and eye, express and trace, in impressive language, the general
historic features of the people, and their acquaintance with the
arts. We also reasonably infer, that when one art or science is
cultivated to a higher degree, its development has the effect of
refining the taste generally; and prepares it, to some extent, for
the more correct perception of the other sister arts. In some
instances, one art may be more cherished at first than others,
owing to peculiar causes; but still the mind is thus prepared, to
some extent, for appreciating the beauties of the others, which
soon attain their position in that chain of science, which has been
so bountifully given by Providence to man's research. Music is
intimately allied to the other sciences; it teaches the properties
and application of musical sounds, and their harmonic proportion,
which is based on geometrical truth. The production of sound brings
under our consideration the exercise of those beautiful mechanical
principles in the form of our complicated musical instruments?the
vibrating motion of the air, and the delicate and interesting study
of acoustics, which teaches to proportion the vibrations into those
magic combinations of harmonized sound, which, traversing the
windings of the charmed ear, afford the highest degree of delight
to th...
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