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A Flat, when placd on any line or fpace at tht beginning
of the five lines , fhens that all the Notes upon them lines
or fpaces muft be playd half a tone lover than they natu~
-rally are, and likemife when it is plac'd before one or more
Notes in any other part of a movement it fhews that all the
Notes npon that line or fpace on -*hich it is plac'd are like
_wife to be played half a tone flater or lower than they are
in the natural Scale untill it is contradicted by a Natural .
The meaning of a Natural is, when any one or more Notes
have been made Sharp or Flat hy the two Characters above
mentiond it reduces thofe Notes to their natural Tone . .
A Slur is part of a circle, when placd over the heads of
any number of Notes ,it fhews that all them Notes are to
be playd without tongueinjJ and with one brtath .
A Shake, is a character that when plac'd over a Note ihews
that, that Note muft be fhaked,in order to perform this;you
muft fhake the next Note above, which is done by moving
that Finder off and on as quick as you can fhake it but be
fure to let the real Note be heard at laft .
A Paufe is the next Character , which fignifies at fuch a
mark all the Performers in a Concert muft ftop, letting the
Tone die away gradually v*ith a total ceffation thorough the
whole Band, and it is often placed over a Note at the end of
amovement fignifying that the tune or movement ends there .
A Repeat fignifies that fuch a part of a Sonfi or Leffon
muft be playd twice over from the place whereon it is fet.
A Direct is placed at the end of a ftave to fhew the place
of the-firft Note in the next ftave.
A diminutive Note or grace marked thus J J f is fet
before a real Note'and is only meant to prepare that real
Note and not reckoned into the time.
A finale Bar is placed acrofs the five lines and ferves
to divide and regulate the time.