Music. Obs. or Hist. See quot.
1776. Sir J. Hawkins, Hist. Music (1853), II. 706/1. We meet also among the compositions of the English masters of the violin who lived in the time of Charles II. with an air called the Cebell … it appears to have been an air in duple time of four bars or measures, only repeated in division at the will of the composer … the several strains are alternately in the grave and the acute series of notes in the musical scale.
