The writer had from childhood on, even from birth, a singular desire and love, charm and inclination towards music [such that he] proceeded to eminent masters in foreign lands, to probe, bear, and endure much for it.

Musick is not given to the Idle, but they must reach it with the Hand of Industry, by putting in Practice the Works and Inventions of skilful Artists; for merely to Speak and Sing are of nature, and this double use of the Articulate Voice the rudest of Swains of all Nations do make; but to Speak well, and Sing well, are of Art.

Instrumental music involves principles which to most musicians remain buried.

Read David Kinsela's article The Capture of the Chekker in the Galpin Society Journal.