. A compendium: or, introduction to practical music. In five parts. ... By Christopher Sympson . ree Minums. Its ]^ark or Sign wasthis, (3. I The meafure of thefe three Moods was Iripla,,of which more hereafter. To tell you their Di- !flijjdion of Mood, time, and Prolation, were to lit^tie purpofe i the Moods themfelves wherein theywere concerned, being now worn out of ufe. The fourth Mood they named ImperfeEi of theLofs, which we now call the Common Mood, theother three being laid alide as ufelefs. The Signof this Mood is a Semicircle, thus, C, which de-notes the (loweft Time, and is generall
. A compendium: or, introduction to practical music. In five parts. ... By Christopher Sympson . ree Minums. Its ]^ark or Sign wasthis, (3. I The meafure of thefe three Moods was Iripla,,of which more hereafter. To tell you their Di- !flijjdion of Mood, time, and Prolation, were to lit^tie purpofe i the Moods themfelves wherein theywere concerned, being now worn out of ufe. The fourth Mood they named ImperfeEi of theLofs, which we now call the Common Mood, theother three being laid alide as ufelefs. The Signof this Mood is a Semicircle, thus, C, which de-notes the (loweft Time, and is generally fet be-fore grave Songs, or LefTons ; the next is this, §which is a Degree fafler, the next Mark thus, $or thus, 2> and is very fall:, and denote^ thequickeft Movement in this Meafure of CommmTime ; as lor Yripla T^ime, I fhall fpeak of it here-after. In this Meafure of Common Time, one Se-mwreve which is the longeft Note, contains 2Minums, ^Crotchets, 8 Quavers, &c. which (foryour better underflanding) is prefented to ourView m the following Scheme, E XAM^ Rumments ofSo^G, *j^ Semiquavers jjTi Note, that the Lar^e and Long are now of lit-tle ufe, being too long for any Voice, or Inftru-ment (the Organ excepted) to hold out to theirfull length. But their Refls are IHll in frequentlife, efpecially in grave Mufic, and Songs of ma-ny Parts. You will fay, if thofe Notes you named betoo long for the Voice to hold out, to what pur-pofe ,were they ufed formerly ? To which I an-fwer ; they were ufed in Iripla Iime, and in aquick Meafure ; quicker (perhaps) than we nowmake our Semihreve and Minum. For, as after-timesadded new Notes, fo they (ftill) put back the for-mer into fomething a flower Meafure. § j^ cA Coffipendimn ofM-vsic^§ 7. Of leeppg Time* OUR next Bufinefs is, to confider how (infuch a Diverficy of long and (hort Notes)we come to givQ every particular Note its dueMeafure, without making it either longer, orIhorter than it ought to be. To effect this, we
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