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TEACHING A CrOUD. 53
Part of the Work is over, as what fol-
lows muft give Pleafure both to Mailer and
Scholar.
Having met again, your firft Bufinefs
xnuft: be to go over the former Lefibns j
whidi is recommended to be done every
Day, particularly the Scale, that is,Leffon 2.
as a juft Performance of it enables them to
perform every other Piece in Tune, and
therefore it cannot be too well ri vetted in
the Ear. You may now attempt the Tenor
of fome eafy airy Church-tune, fuppofe the
French, which is recommended to be fung
by neither Letters nor Sol-fa-ing, they being
both perplexing and unnecelTary, but by
any four Lines of eight and fix Syllables^
from the Pfalms, or any other Poetry you
chufe. And here it will be proper to ob-
ferve, that, in finging Church or other Mufic,
the Syllable muft not be clofed till the Sound
to which it is applied is about being done.
To illuftrate this the better, obferve the fol-
lowing Line, where a Ligature is made to
follow that Letter on which the Sound ought
to dwell.
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