The elements of musick display'd; or, Its grammar, or ground-work made easy: rudimental, practical, philosophical, historical, and technical .. . ie better to explain, the above, obferve this I Semibreve z Minim Scale of Notes. o contains. By thefe, before hinted, you fee, that one Semibrevecontains two Minims ; two Minims contain four Crotchets ;four Crotchets contain eight Quavers; eight Quavers con-tain fixteen Semiquavers; and Bxteen Semiquavers : So that, in a MathematicalSenfe, if the Semibreve be one Bar of Time, the Minimisone 2d ; the Crotchet one>4
The elements of musick display'd; or, Its grammar, or ground-work made easy: rudimental, practical, philosophical, historical, and technical .. . ie better to explain, the above, obferve this I Semibreve z Minim Scale of Notes. o contains. By thefe, before hinted, you fee, that one Semibrevecontains two Minims ; two Minims contain four Crotchets ;four Crotchets contain eight Quavers; eight Quavers con-tain fixteen Semiquavers; and Bxteen Semiquavers : So that, in a MathematicalSenfe, if the Semibreve be one Bar of Time, the Minimisone 2d ; the Crotchet one>4th ; the Quaver one 8th ; theSemiquaver ope 1 (5th ;.;^nd the Bcmlfemiquaver one 32dPart, &c. i-.~ Before the Tear 133P, the feveral Degrees of Sound wereall exprefsd of an ecjtal Length of lime ; when Johannes, de Of Notes, and Refts. Book I. 11 de Maris, Doctor of Paris, invented our different Figures,called Notes and Rejis, and gave them the foregoingNames, &c. &c. Of 3 Old Notes, and Refts. When Notes were firft invented, they ufed three otherSorts of Notes, i. e. a Breve, , and a Large. i. The Breve, was a large fquare 2Vff/«, and as long astwo Semibreves ; and its i£<?/? was drawn by a broad Stroke over
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