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14 The Gamut Reformed.
our cuflom is eafier, which computes
them by weeks, and comes about a-
gain with the fame days, and the fame
number of days, fowith great facility
fhall I caft up my Mufical account
within the circulation of an Odaves
for it will be all one if I fay, I will do
a thing one and twenty days hence, or
this day three weeks ? and befides, I
efcape the difficulty fore-mentioned,
that lies in the croft fituation of equi-
valent Notes.
That thofe forefaid hard names are
nothing to the purpofe 5 1 thus prove
it } for they (hould either diftinguifh
what O&ave the Note is in, or fignifie
the placing of Mi.
1. They can't declare a Note to be.
in a different Ocrave, becaufe their
names are not different in every O-
ctave, as that F fa ut is always the
fame, and G fol re ut, AUmire and moft
of the reft differ not in the upper
Oftaves : Wherefore really to diftin-
guifh them, I will at the beginning of
every leflbn in the place of three (in
themfelves infignificant) cliff cha-
racters, iet thofe letters which exprefs
the part wherein the Mufick is plac'd 5
as B forthebafe, fo called (and ought
to
our cuflom is eafier, which computes
them by weeks, and comes about a-
gain with the fame days, and the fame
number of days, fowith great facility
fhall I caft up my Mufical account
within the circulation of an Odaves
for it will be all one if I fay, I will do
a thing one and twenty days hence, or
this day three weeks ? and befides, I
efcape the difficulty fore-mentioned,
that lies in the croft fituation of equi-
valent Notes.
That thofe forefaid hard names are
nothing to the purpofe 5 1 thus prove
it } for they (hould either diftinguifh
what O&ave the Note is in, or fignifie
the placing of Mi.
1. They can't declare a Note to be.
in a different Ocrave, becaufe their
names are not different in every O-
ctave, as that F fa ut is always the
fame, and G fol re ut, AUmire and moft
of the reft differ not in the upper
Oftaves : Wherefore really to diftin-
guifh them, I will at the beginning of
every leflbn in the place of three (in
themfelves infignificant) cliff cha-
racters, iet thofe letters which exprefs
the part wherein the Mufick is plac'd 5
as B forthebafe, fo called (and ought
to
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Special collections of printed music > Inglis Collection of printed music > Printed text > Essay to the advancement of musick > (40) Page 14 |
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Description | Scottish and English songs, military music and keyboard music of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items are from the collection of Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854 to 1929). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises and other books on the subject. |
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Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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