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Padre Martini is a Franciscan, and Maestro di Capella of the church belong- ing to that order in Bologna. He has many years been employed in writing the History of Music, of which the first vo- lume only has, as yet, been published. Two editions, one in folio, and one in quarto, were printed at the same time in Bologna, 1757; a second volume is in the press, and he proposes finishing the work in five volumes. The first volume is chiefly employed in the History of Music among the Hebrews; the second and third will comprise that of the an- cient Greeks; the fourth, the Latin or Roman music, with the history of music in the church; the fifth and last vo- lume will be appropriated to modern music, with some account of the lives and writings of the most famous musi- cians and ingravings of their heads. We reciprocally agreed upon an open and cordial correspondence, and a mutual pro- mise of considence and assistance; but
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