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SA Dictionary Of Music, 1904
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1THE SALVATION ARMY
2DICTIONARY OF MUSIC
4A.
6A. The name given to the sixth note in the natural scale of C. It is to the note A that String Bands and Orchestras tune, and it is given out as a rule by the Oboe, or by the Organ, if there be one. One of the strings on all stringed instruments is tuned to A. The 2nd string on the Violin and Mandoline (counting from right to left, from the front view of such instruments) is so tuned; also the 1st on the Viola and Violoncello, and generally the 3rd on the Contra, or Double-Bass. On the five-stringed Banjo it is the 5th, or lowest string, that is tuned to A, although in some cases this string is taken down to G, a note lower.
8Abbreviations. For the convenience of the singer or player, as well as the composer, in music it is customary to use signs when repetitions of notes and chords occur, so saving space, or making a passage thereby easier to read quickly. The greatest number of such abbreviations occur in connection with reiterated notes and repetitions of a figure or a chord. The following are illustrations of those which are of most common use:—
10Written.
111. 2. 3. 4. 5. 3 3
13Rendered.
141. 2. 3. 4. 5.
166. 7. 8.
186. 7. 8.
20To save the repetition of the same note, as in 1 and 2, it will be seen that one note only is given of the value of all the notes required, and one or more lines drawn through its stem, to indicate the time of the parts into which the note is to be divided in performance, one line meaning quavers, or eighth notes, two lines semi-quavers, or sixteenth notes, and so on. Where a figure is to be repeated, as in 6, one or more lines follow as often as the figure is to be given, one line if the figure is built up of quavers, two if of semi-quavers, and so on. In 7 there is what is called a licenza form of a
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