. Apollo's cabinet: or the muses delight an accurate collection of English and Italian songs, cantatas and duetts, set to music for the harpsichord, violin, German-flute, &c. uick or flow, muftbe divided in three equal Parts, telling 1, 2, with your Hand down, and 3 with itup : In this Sort of Time you muft obferve that you keep your Hand up but halfthe time you keep it down. Of Tuning the Voice. Before you can tune your Voice rightly you muft know which are whole Tonesand which half Tones. From G to A is a whole Tone, from A to B is a wholeTone, from B to C is half a Tone, from C to D is a wh
. Apollo's cabinet: or the muses delight an accurate collection of English and Italian songs, cantatas and duetts, set to music for the harpsichord, violin, German-flute, &c. uick or flow, muftbe divided in three equal Parts, telling 1, 2, with your Hand down, and 3 with itup : In this Sort of Time you muft obferve that you keep your Hand up but halfthe time you keep it down. Of Tuning the Voice. Before you can tune your Voice rightly you muft know which are whole Tonesand which half Tones. From G to A is a whole Tone, from A to B is a wholeTone, from B to C is half a Tone, from C to D is a whole Tone, from D to Eis a whole Tone, from E to F is half a Tone, from F to G is a whole Tone, andfo on with ever fo many Notes, which muft afcend in the fame Proportion of Soundas the firft eight Notes do, all other Sounds being only a Repetition of the fame. For the better remembring which are half Tones and which not, obferve that thehalf Tones are included by the Fa and the Note below it ; for from Mi to Fa, andfrom La to Fa, are half Tones afcending ; and from Fa to Mi, and from Fa to Layare half Tones defcending : All the reft are whole Tones, as in the Sol Fa Mi La Sol When you have founded the firft Note you muft rife by whole Tones and halfTones, as obferved above, till you afcend to the Top of your Leflbn, and thendown again with the other, laying your Hand down when you begin to found thefirft Note, and taking it up when you have half fung it; then laying down as youbegin the next, and up again, and fo on with the reft, holding them all of an equallength, becaufe they are all Semibreves : But for fear you fhould not fing them ex-actly in Tune, you ought to get the Afliftance of a Perfon fkilld in Mufic, and lethim fing or play your eight Notes with you till you remember them fo well as todo them without him ; then you may proceed to the following Leflbn. L E S
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