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time, would certainly be a valuable acquisition to such lovers of church music as wish to trace it from it's source.
It seems as if Signor Santarelli was prevented from publishing his work, by the want of a patron worthy of it. He is so sensible of the contempt with which music is treated at present, by the first dignitaries of the church, that he enter- tains but small hopes of the success of his book, though it has been a work of much time and labour, and seems worthy of the patronage and protection of his Holiness, for the use of whose servants, as well as for the service of music in general, it is in an eminent degree cal- culated.
Besides communicating to me his un- published printed book, and the second volume in MS. Signor Santarelli obliged me with extracts from two MS. volumes of curious anecdotes, and passages from old and scarce books relative to music;
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