The elements of musick display'd; or, Its grammar, or ground-work made easy: rudimental, practical, philosophical, historical, and technical .. . refent Cliffs, knowinghow inconvenient it is to every Praclitioner to be dailyperplexd with the moving of them, ibmetimes on oneLine, and then again on another ; not only fo, but I thinkit would be more eafy to every Praclitioner, did our Cliffsreprefent fuch Letters as they are afilgned for; which Iwould have ftand on the middle Line of each Part, each intheir own Char a tier, Thus : Bafs. Tenor. Counter. Treble. D. C. C. B. -e- -G^f-e- >£ ?e- jl
The elements of musick display'd; or, Its grammar, or ground-work made easy: rudimental, practical, philosophical, historical, and technical .. . refent Cliffs, knowinghow inconvenient it is to every Praclitioner to be dailyperplexd with the moving of them, ibmetimes on oneLine, and then again on another ; not only fo, but I thinkit would be more eafy to every Praclitioner, did our Cliffsreprefent fuch Letters as they are afilgned for; which Iwould have ftand on the middle Line of each Part, each intheir own Char a tier, Thus : Bafs. Tenor. Counter. Treble. D. C. C. B. -e- -G^f-e- >£ ?e- jlxH~G~ Sol. Fa. Fa. Mi. In this New-cliff method the two Letters of each fhewboth the Inftrumental and Vocal Name given to the middleLine they ftand on : All other Notes being in Regular-Or-der both above and below each Cliff, through the whole?Qffave, &c. N. B. Any Tenor may be fet in the ^-mi-Cliff as well as the Treble, by reafon, all OSiaves are thefame as before both Above and Below, &c. without beingdaily perplexd with changing of Cliffs. — From hence itappears, That The Gamut-Scale mujl ivell he learnt hy Heart, Part :. CHAP. Of Notes, and Refts. Book I. 9 CHAP. II. Of Notes, W ^«r Names, and of their Refts; andofall other Characters nfed in Mufick, &c. TH E Length of Tones, or Continuance of Sounds, isexpreffed by feveral Characters, calld Notes ; each/having a different Name, and Shape. A Ceffation, or leaving off founding, is exprefsd by va-rious Characters, calld Rests, (or Notes of Silence-,) whichMarks import, that you muft reft, or ceafe from finging,or playing, juft as long as if you are founding any of therefpective Notes, &c—When thefe Characters are perfectlyunderftood, then you will be able to know, what is calld,Time and Meafure. . A Scale of Notes, and Refts, and their 2. 3. 4. 5- 6. A Semioreve. A Minim. A Crotchet, |A ^ SemiquavA A I. |. *. \ i. i >. I yv iV^}zzQ-lz=pz|2:=c:z|zzg-Z|Z-~i:.z L:i.£.z}| Exp
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