, in Music, are characters which mark the tones, i. e. the elevations and fallings of the voice, or sound, and the swiftness or slowness of its motions, &c; and these have undergone various alterations and improvements, before they arrived at their present state of perfection.
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ABCDEFGHKLMNOPQRSTWXYZABCEGLMN
Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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