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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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