 | Henry Southwick Perkins - Anthems - 1867 - 348 pages
...Sol, La, Si, Do. CHAPTER IIL LETTERS. CLEFS. ABSOLUTE PITCH. The Degrees of the Staff are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet:— A, B. C, D, E, F, G. These are the LITERAL names of the Degrees of the Staff. Characters called Clefa are placed upon the... | |
 | Edward Roberts, John Paul Morgan - Anthems - 1868 - 392 pages
...below, e. д.: Klr<t ,„„,.,. „bo ve,. JAM ils fäsks 11. The degrees of the staff are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet : A, B, C, D, E, F, G. 1 2. In order to name all the degrees of the staff, including the added lines and spaces, these letters... | |
 | William Oscar Perkins - Children's songs - 1863 - 234 pages
...MUSICAL NOTATIOH. CHAPTER 1П. LETTERS, CLEFS, ABSOLUTE PITCH. The degrees of the Staff are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet : A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Character* called CLEFS are need to determine the name of each degree. NOTE. When the Clef it used,... | |
 | Edgar Brinsmead - 1870 - 88 pages
...sounds ascending — Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la — he placed at the side of each of these syllables one of the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G ; and because he accompanied the note which he added below the ancient system with the letter gamma,... | |
 | Henry Southwick Perkins - Cantatas, Secular - 1871 - 278 pages
...rather than by associating the tone with some syllable. CHAPTER III. LETTERS, CLEFS, ABSOLUTE PITCH. The first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, are used in music. The character used to determine the (letter) name of each degree is called a Clef, viz :... | |
 | John Taylor - 1872 - 168 pages
...IIN ft od<atf«Jp*J* Notes are to music what letters are to language. 3. The notes are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F, G), and are placed upon a stave. 4. A stave consists of a number of parallel lines ; thus : Fig. 2. In... | |
 | Henry David Leslie - 1872 - 74 pages
...Schools. ELEMENTARY MANUAL OF MUSIC. SECTION I. NOTATION. 1. Musical sounds are expressed and known by the first seven letters of the Alphabet— A, B, C, D, E, P, and G. 2. Notation, or written music, consists of certain characters called Notes placed on or between... | |
 | William Alexander Barrett - Choral singing - 1873 - 190 pages
...DIATONIC SCALE is formed of seven sounds ; for convenience sake these seven sounds are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, or the first seven of the numbers, i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The eighth note in all the diatonic scales,... | |
 | Horace R. Streeter - Sight-singing - 1873 - 72 pages
...the staff. These are called added or leger lines, Upon each degree of the staff is placed a letter. The first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, are used for this purpose, and are repeated as often as required. The position of these letters... | |
 | Luther Orlando Emerson - 1874 - 152 pages
...the naming of pitch irrespective of its relation to some other pitch. The pitch of sounds is named by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. For the sake of conciseness (among other reasons) no more letters are employed ; but these are repeated... | |
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