S^2 A NEW MODE OF MUSICAI, XOTATIOV. July 6, 



Other words, i. is equal to twice the time of i. ; a. is 

 double the time of 3. ; 3.13 twice as long as four, and fo 

 on. 



To exprefs all the varieties of time, however, it uas 

 neceffary to adopt a contrivance in muncal notation, 

 that has been found to anlwer every purpofe in the 

 moft pe-rfeft manner. A dot placed to the right hand 

 of any note, (hews that that note is lengthened precife- 

 ly one half more than its original time. For example, 

 a fimple minum denotes two crotchets ; but a dotted 

 minum denr>tes three ; and fo on of every other note. 

 Nothing can be better contrived, or more fimple than 

 this is ; and therefore the fame contrivance fhould be 

 here adopted, a dot to the right hand of any figure, de- 

 noting that the time esprefied by that figure is one 

 hali' longer than it otherwife would have been. 



Thefe particulars being explained, nothing farther 

 is wanted than to fliew how time and tone can be con- 

 nedled in this new mode of mufical .notation , nor can 

 any thing be more eafy and fimple than this. The 

 tone is denoted by its proper letter placed in one line, 

 and its ttfr/e by an Arabic figure immediately above it, 

 either with, or without a dot, as may be required. 

 Thus the note^ below marked in the ufual way, would 



It is not to be expected that a perfon who has never 

 feen this mode of notation before, could read it readily, 

 no more than that a man who has never feen a note in 

 mulic, could read a piece of mufic marked in the ordina- 

 ry way ;but it is fufficiently obvious that the one mode 

 of notation is equallj' precife,and more fimple than the 

 other, fo as that the ufe of it could, by a little praflice, 

 be acquired as readily as the other. To pevfons there- 

 fore who are beginning to learn the gamut, this mode 

 would be equally eafy with that now in ufe, though 

 it muft fubject thofe who are already taught, to learn 

 the gamut anew, if they were to read mufic according 

 to this notation. 



