The Music of Nature

'the measure devoid of judgment. His dancing "has neither sentiment hor expression; and the 'music which should-direct his motions, regulate 'his steps, and guide his time, serves only to expose 'his imperfections and insufficiency.'

The study of music should therefore be resorted to, for the purpose of obviating this defect, and giving more sensibility and exactness to the organs of hearing, without which, no one, however gifted ' in form and person, can ever excel in this polite ' and elegant art.'

CHAPTER XLV.

ON TUNING.

To tune an instrument, is to increase or diminish. the tension of the strings, so as to make them accord with a given tone. In tuning the violin, we put the second string in unison with the note A upon the piano-forte, and then tune the first string to a perfect fifth above it; afterwards, the third to a fifth below it, and the fourth to a fifth below that, forming the notes G, D, A, and E. In doing this, the ear has to listen for that sweet blending of the sounds, which it will easily catch as the strings come into tune. To tune a piano-forte, much