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he having been many years employed in the following curious work, Della Musica del Santuario e della Disciplina de' suoi Can- tori; or, an Historical Dissertation on Church Music.
This work is divided into different centuries since the time of our Saviour, as secolo primo, sec. secondo, sec. terzo, &c. giving authorities throughout, from ecclesiastical history. The first volume was printed in the year 1764, but has never yet been published: the second, in MS. is in great forwardness; it seems to supply all the deficiencies of another curious and scarce work on the same sub- ject, published in 1711, called Osservazi- oni per ben regolare il caro della Capella pon- tificia; or, Rules for conducting the Choir of the Pope's Chapel, by Andrea Adamo; but the historical part of this book, be- ginning only at the year 1400, and end- ing in 1711, that of Signor Santarelli, which begins with the earliest ages of the church, and continues to the present
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