dessus de violon, violins

13. ritournelles. Variations on the theme of the song, or répétitions of it.

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NOTES

Page 14. — I. trompette marine, sea-trumpet. An old instrument of one string (coarse in texture), with a wooden body. It was low pitched, and its musical scale resembled a trumpet’s.

2. chanter à table. The fashion was .to hâve vocal music at dinner, as well as instrumental.

3. voyez. Probably a passing spelling for voyiez. See Racine’s con- X.QXvo^oxzx'j Bérénice^ 1292, and Iphigénie., 406. Cf. page 15, line 22.

4. Un chapeau. The minuets were danced with the hats on. At bows and salutations they would be taken off and held in the hand.