The elements of musick display'd; or, Its grammar, or ground-work made easy: rudimental, practical, philosophical, historical, and technical .. . , as the above Example, then is yourFirft 3d above your Key-Note, A, B, C; or La, mi, fa; aMinor or Flat-Third, of but Three Semitones ; and alfo theMinor 6th, of Eight Semitones ; and the Minor 7th, of butTen Semitones above the Key-Note: But the Oclave is alwaysthe fame again, in any Key whatfoever: You being half higher in the very firf 3d of the Sharp-Key, than youare in the Nat-Key ; and, this is the very Reafon, one Keyis called Sharp an
The elements of musick display'd; or, Its grammar, or ground-work made easy: rudimental, practical, philosophical, historical, and technical .. . , as the above Example, then is yourFirft 3d above your Key-Note, A, B, C; or La, mi, fa; aMinor or Flat-Third, of but Three Semitones ; and alfo theMinor 6th, of Eight Semitones ; and the Minor 7th, of butTen Semitones above the Key-Note: But the Oclave is alwaysthe fame again, in any Key whatfoever: You being half higher in the very firf 3d of the Sharp-Key, than youare in the Nat-Key ; and, this is the very Reafon, one Keyis called Sharp and chearful; and the other fiat, foft,_ andmournful: One being proper for folid and grave Subjects,and the other for Subjects more chearful, merry and fprightly:which Examples Ihew the Places of the two Natural-femi-tones, in every Oclave; either in the Sharp, or Flat, Key, &c. An J2 The Elements of M U SIC K made Eafy, &c. b »> «-> CO 4> *» «J>-* t-i-» >—f DJ4 ^ o£j. iSJ -S J3 OiUve. Sh -^ U o • p-4. ?»-» * < o CO «3.§ §.3. •SA?»0 */ ^/TRANSPOSITION. Book I. 33 — ?- - ??? - -??- - - - - - id —? ?-— § 2. Of Tranfpofition, of B-M I, & B-M I, Tranfpofed by Flats. TO Tranfpofe, or remove a Piece of Mujick from offoneKey, and to fet it on another, Firfl, you are to confi*der that B-M I is the Mafter Note, and governeth all otherNotes in Regular-Order, both above, and Mow it, and com-eth but once in every OtJave; your Natural Sharp Key-Note,being the very next Degree above it, and your NaturalFlat-Key Note the next Tone below it.—And fecondly, thatthe Quality of B-M l-Note, is always Jharp and chearful,and may be made Flat, by placing a Flat thereon, at theBeginning of the five Lines, which Flat changes the PlaceGf B-Mi, to the Quality of la: Then, if la be there fixed,B-Mi muft of Necefiity be Tranfpofed four Notes higher(or five lov*er) to E, that the natural Semitones may be keptin Regular Biatonick-Order. (This being called the Fir
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