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Guckert's Illustrated Self Instructor for the Violin, 1900
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1ELEMENTARY LESSONS AND RULES
3The characters which indicate, or stand for tones, are called Notes, and are placed on or between lines, which constitute what is called the Staff.
5The lines and spaces are numbered from the lowest upwards.
7Notes above or below the staff, necessitate the use of small lines, called Added or Ledger lines.
9Tones are named by means of the seven letters, a, b, c, d, e, f, g or commencing on C, they are c, d, e, f, g, a, b (the Germans say, c, d, e, f, g, a, h.) These, with an upper C, compose the Scale of C, and contain five large and two small intervals. (Major and Minor Seconds, or Whole and Half Steps.)*
11A Sharp(#) raises a note half a step, or rather, substitutes for it a note half a step higher.) A Flat(b) depresses half a step, and a Natural(h) restores anything previously raised or depressed to its former, or natural position.
13C sharp, B flat, C natural, B nat.
14Major Third. Minor Third
15Fifths and Fourths
16F sharp C# G# D#
17A sharp E# B#
19Comparative length of Notes
20A whoe note
21equals
222 half notes
234 quarter Notes
248 eight Notes
2516 sixteenth Notes
2632 thirty second Notes
27etc.
29A Double Sharp (x) raises a note two half tones or half steps and a Double Flat(♭) lowers a note two half tones or half steps.
31F sharp, F double sharp, F sharp
32E flat, E double flat, E flat
33Major and Minor keys with the same signature are said to be relatives
34Fourths and Fifths
35B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat
36G flat, C flat, F flat
38Value of Rests
40Whole Half Quarter Eighth Sixteenth Thirty-second 2 measures 3 4 6 8 10 20
41A Dot adds half to the length of a note or rest.
42Pause D.C. means recommence the tune
43Repeats Repeat to the sign.
45Abbreviations
47Written
48Played
50* There is a great confusion in terms used to describe the constituents of the scale. Some name the musical sounds which we call c, d, etc., simply sounds, and some prefer to name them tone; while the intervals from c to d, d to e, e to f etc., are variously named, tones and Semi-tones, Major and Minor Seconds, Steps and Half Steps, Degrees and Semi Degrees, etc.
51Guckert V. S. 48
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