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ceived more pleasure from this kind of
music. One of the organists of St. Mark's
church, who is in orders, attended, and
discovered himself, in his voluntaries and
interludes, to be a very masterly per-
former.
The voices were well chosen, and well
assorted, no one stronger than the other;
the composition was of Lotti, and was
truly grave and majestic, consisting of
fugues and imitations in the stile of our
best old church services, which have been
so well selected, and published in so mag-
nificent a manner by Dr. Boyce: all was
clear and distinct, no confusion or unne-
cessary notes; it was even capable of ex-
pression, particularly one of the move-
ments, into which the performers entered
so well, that it affected me even to tears.
The organist here very judiciously
suffered the voices to be heard in all their
purity, insomuch that I frequently forgot
that they were accompanied; upon the
whole this seems to be the true stile for
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