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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Bacchius

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69494Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — BacchiusJohn Weeks Moore

Bacchius, senior, a Greek writer and great musician, lived probably in the second century. He wrote an introduction to music, which was translated into Latin, and published at Amsterdam, in 1652. F�tis says, that of all the Greek writers upon music he was the least pretentiously learned and most practical.