The elements of musick display'd; or, Its grammar, or ground-work made easy: rudimental, practical, philosophical, historical, and technical .. . The Largo-Mood, is half as quick again as theAdagio-Mood, markd thus : 3d, The The Elements of MU SICK made Eafy, &c. 3d, The Allegro-Mood, is half as quick again as theLargo-Mood (and as quick again as the Adagio-Mood) and is thus markd : JEiTor 4E1 So that a Minim in Allegro, is but as a Crotchet in theAdagio, &c. Sometimes, in thisMW, you have but 2 Crotchetsin a 5^r, markd thus £, being performd as 2 diminifhdMinims: which, I think, are


The elements of musick display'd; or, Its grammar, or ground-work made easy: rudimental, practical, philosophical, historical, and technical .. . The Largo-Mood, is half as quick again as theAdagio-Mood, markd thus : 3d, The The Elements of MU SICK made Eafy, &c. 3d, The Allegro-Mood, is half as quick again as theLargo-Mood (and as quick again as the Adagio-Mood) and is thus markd : JEiTor 4E1 So that a Minim in Allegro, is but as a Crotchet in theAdagio, &c. Sometimes, in thisMW, you have but 2 Crotchetsin a 5^r, markd thus £, being performd as 2 diminifhdMinims: which, I think, are the moft proper Notes forthis Mood, by reafon it is as quick again as Adagio, andought to confift of Crotchets in their primitive Lengths,and not of Minims half diminifhed, &c. being very brifk,and airy. But the better to explain what I have faid, I will letyou an Example of Notes, with Figures over them, direct-ing how to count the Time j and Letters (u, for up, andd, for down) how to beat it. Example of Common-Time Adagio-Mood. Very flow, Binary-Meafure* 1,2; 3,4. 1,2:34. l>2 • 3>4- 1>Z • 34- x2 : 3»4-. 2. Largo Of Time. Book II. 47 2» Largo-Mood. One half quicker than ,2 : 1,2 : 3,4. i32 : 3,4^ 1,2 : i^2j 3,4. 1,2 : 3^4da. d u. d u. d u. do. ?T-P~i-£z=:Tziz f=T~T ,a i_-_„__ ! i*« . } !> _; tf 3. Allegro-Mood. ^ quick again as Adagio. 1,2. I, 2. 1,2. 1,2. I, 2. 1,2. 1,2. d u. d u. da, du. d u. d u. d u. 4-t-f-h- ±ft? § 2. Of Tripla-Time. TRenary-Meafure, Tripla-Meafure, or Tripla-Time, isfo called from its Fall being double to its Rife ; i. as many more ^w« as up. Tripla-Time moves by /£mw; as 3 Minims, 3 Crotchets,or 3 Quavers in a 5^r, to be juft as /0#£ tf^//z dfczs/w as ap. The Afwjfr that we now ufe in Tripla-Time, are 12 indumber; of which obferve the following Table. ATM* 4$ The Elements of M U SIC K made Eajy, &c. A Table of Tripla-Time and Trenary. O c s s 1-1 c T3OO uO <M vO W 00 M ON vO ON


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