Treatife of Mufic, CONTAINING THE PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION. WHERELN The feveral Parts thercof are fully explained, ond made ufeful both to the Profeffors and Students of that Science. > By Mr. RAMEAU, Principal Compofer to his Mott Chritian Majefty, and to the Opera at Paris, ‘Trantlated into Engl from the Original in the French Language LONDON: Printed for j. FRENCH, No. 4y, oppofite Hatton Garden, Holborn, ”T A B L §£ OF THE CONTENTS. CHAP.-L Page ‘oduction 0 Practical Mufic = —— _ I Nr CHAP. Il. Of the fundamental Bafs = ==————- + IE CHAP. Il. Of the perfect Chord, by which begins Compofition in ‘our Parts —_— _—_ 12 CHAP, IV, Of the Succefion or Sequence of Chords —_ 13 CHAP. VW. Of fome Rules that muff be obferved —_—— 17 CHAP. VIL Of the Chord of the Seventh —_— —_— 18 CHAP. VIL ” Remarks touching the Difccrd ———- ew 233 CHAP. VU. ‘Of the Key, and of its Denomination of Flat and Sharp ib, CHAP. Ix, . Of the Manner of Modulating harmonically, when @ diatonic Progreffion is given to the Bafs —_— 25 CHAP. X, Of the continued Bafs —_ — T 3 3 CHAP,