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Charles Burney
The Present State of Music in France and Italy (2nd, corrected edition)
London: T. Becket and Co., 1773
Rome
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Charles Burney The Present State of Music in France and Italy (2nd, corrected edition) London: T. Becket and Co., 1773 Rome |
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" if the statutes of every cathedral were examined, " it would appear, that the salary allotted to each " member was exactly proportioned one to the other: " perhaps thus; to the chorister, or singing boy, " five pounds; to the singing man, ten; to the " minor canon, twenty; the organist the same; " to the canon or residentiary, forty; and to the " dean, eighty pounds per annum; which if mul- " tiplied by four, would make the first twenty, the " second forty, the third eighty, the fourth one " hundred and sixty, and the fifth three hundred " and twenty: this, with the chance of livings to " the clergy, would be a decent competency for " each in his station; and I may venture to affirm, " that the three former would be very well con- " tented with it: yet, even this increase will not " satisfy the two latter; but, without scruple or " remorse, they (by what authority I know not) " divide three fourths of the profits arising from " the portions allotted to their inferiors, among " themselves; a manifest abuse of the founder's in- " tention, and injustice to the several incumbents: " hence a canonry comes to be valued at two hun- " dred, and a deanry at four hundred pounds per " annum; and if this computation over-rates the " value of some, others however must be allowed " to exceed it greatly." |
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