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Triple Time confifts of either 3 Minims 3 Crotchets or 3
Quavers in a Bar, and is to be known'by theft as follows 3 .
fignifies 3 Minims ^ three Crotchets 3 three Quavers •? nine
Quavers ^ fix Quavers ^ 2 twelve Quavers in a Bar.
In order to keep regular Time in the performance of Mu
_fic,you muft acruftom your felt to keep a motion with
your Toe. when Mufic confifts of an even number of Crot-
^chets or Quavers in a Bar, your Toe muft fio down with the
I s . Note in the Bar and rife at the half or middle, as in the
following Kxamples where the letter (d)fhews where it muft
jjy down and the letter (ii) where it muft rile .
Example
-^^r r r r i rr i i r f rfcrir-Q^i iW#fi^«
rt ii 'd ii d ii d u d u d u d u d u
|^; j ^l rrco 4 # ^#q^#ib
d
In Triple Time which confift of 3 Minims 3 Crotchets three
Quavers in a Bar the Toe muft fio down with the firft V rife
with the third as in the following Kxamples.
j" i MlJ "Miir^r^m^rfT^
ii d u d ii d -ii d u d « d
^£a^ta% ^'J ^n i D a^p
„ d u d u d ii d ii d ii d u d