3^0 A NEW MODE OF MUSICAL NOTATION. July 



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Thus we perceive, that even at prefent the notes 

 confidered as to tone only, could be equally well de- 

 noted by the letters, which are the names of thefe notes, 

 as by the notes themfelves. One difficulty only occurs, 

 viz. that the fame letters denote feveral different oc- 

 taves above or below each other. Could this difliculty 

 be removed, it is perfectly obvious that every thing 

 refpefting tone might be marked with equal prec'fion 

 by means of letters alone, as can now be done by the 

 help of notes and different clefs, which is a troublefome 

 contrivance, neceffarily reforted to for making the high 

 and the low notes be equally fufceptible of being pro- 

 perly placed upon the five lines in a mulic book. 



To diflinguiQi the different odlaves from each other, 

 nothing more is necefiary than to place certain differ- 

 ential marks upon the letters of eacli octave; and if thefe 

 marks are very fimple and obvious, no difficulty can 

 ever occur. 



The tenor clef is the medium between the high and 

 low in mufic Let us then take the octave from A 

 founded on the fecond firing of the violin open, to A next 

 above it on the tenor clef, as the medium, and let that oc- 

 tave bein-o- all times denoted by the letters fimply, without 

 anv f^ifterenrial marks at all, thus A B, &c. Let the next 

 ottave above it be marked by the fame fet of letters, 

 which have each of them a fingle dot placed above the 

 letter, as a B , &.c. The next oftave above that to 

 have two dots on the upper part of the letters ; the 

 third three dots ; and fo on till you arile to the top of 

 the fcals. The defcending oftaves fliould be marked in 



