New NOTATION or MUSIC. = 14. 
or by what printers call a./uperior letter, fuch as are com- 
monly ufed for notes of reference. The pofition and fize~ 
of this b, will fuffiiciently diftinguith it from the note of 
that name. The afterifm, or if it fhould be thought better, 
a {mall x, placed before the. note, will very well ex-- 
prefs an accidental tharp;.and the letter n, anatural; and 
though thefe characters for fharps and naturals can never 
be miftaken for notes, yet for the fake of uniformi-- 
ty, and to preyent all .poflible embarraffment in reading, 
I would:place them alfo .a little. higher than the other. 
letters in the line. Two or more.notes founded together, as. 
is frequent on clavicords, harps and other ftringed inftru- 
ments, may be exprefled. by. fetting fuch notes one over 
the other.. 
As for.the times of notes,. which is the fecond thing to 
be confidered in mufical founds, they may 1 think be very. 
naturally exprefled by the following marks, which are 
ufed fora fimilar purpofe in common reading.. 
Semi-demi-quavers, .which are fung or played as rapid- 
ly as the fyllables of a word are pronounced, may be ex-- 
preffed by the hyphen (which in reading only. {eparates. 
fyllables) placed after fuch notes. -(-) 
| Semi-quavers, by the comma __ (,). 
Quavers, by the femicolon. _(;) . 
Crotchets, by thecolon . (:) 
Miniums, by the period 2 iy 
And femi-breves, by the mdafh (—).: 
A pricked note may be exprefled, as in common nota- - 
tion, by an inverted period fet after the mark fignifying 
the time of the note. 
When two or more notes of equal time come together 
in the fame bar, the mark of time need only be expreffed 
after the laft of fuch notes, and underftood to the reft; 
and the different fyllables in a bar may, when it is thought - 
neceflary, be diftinguifhed by interpofing a {pace between : 
fuch fyllables. Refte :, 
