l5o DES PRISCIPAUX SYST^MES 



que ces Signes se troiiveiit pai'ini les Cnracteres oi'dlnaires de 

 toute Impriinerie : il faut done ecarler tous Symboles uouvcUement 

 inTentes , de figure ignoree jusqiics-la , ou memc de toute conQ- 

 gurattoii counue , qui exigeraient une cre'ation de poincons parti- 

 culiers. 



M. Patterson se plaint de ce que I'invention tie I'Art Typogra- 

 phique n'a pouit exerce sur la Musique la meme iiiQuence qu'cUe 

 a cue , en general , sur le progres des Sciences Ics plus utiles ; 

 il observe que la pliipart des Imprimeurs manquanl de ressour- 

 ces pour la publication des Pieces de Musique , il faut toujours 

 recourir au procede dispendieux et incommode de la GraTure (i). 



II est necessau-e de supprimer la Portiie et d'en vcnir a une 

 ecritiire d'une scule ligne , afin de gagncr de Tespace el de pou- 

 Toir se passer de papier regie. II faut done adopter au moins 

 sept Caracteres dillerens , pour les sept degres diatouiques de la 

 Gamme ; et recoiuir ensuite a quelqu'im des artifices proposes 



(i) I have long regretted that the art of printing , wicli more than any other modern 

 inTenlion , has contributed to the progress of useful knowledge among men , has , in the 

 science of Music , beeli hitherto exercised in so limited a degree. It is true there is a me- 

 thod of printing Music , by types made for the purpose ; few prieters , however , especially 

 in America , are furnished with founts of this kind, an in general , when one would^ublish 

 a piece of Music , he is obliged to have recourse to the troublesome and expensive mode 

 ©f a copper-plate impression ; and hence it is that pnhhcations of this kind are so very 

 jare among us 



Now if the tones of musical notes , instead of being represented by lines and espaces , 

 vrcre denoted by the letters which denominate these, and their times by the common stops 

 «r marks of Music wotild certainly be as natural as the common one, and would moreover 

 have this great advantage , that Music might then be printed with the common alphabeti- 

 cal types; by which means all the inconvenience and expence attending tthe publication of 

 Music, according to the usual Notation, would be avoided; a magazine or common news- 

 paper , would then become a convenient vehicle for puldishing the most .celebrated airs 

 of pieces of Music ( which any one might afterwards , if the should think it necessary , 

 prick off for hiinsclf in the common focm ) and thus contribute to diU'nse a more general 

 knowledge of this ornamental and bumaiiiziog science.- 



Loc. cit pages i3^ , i4o. 



