Rudiments of Song.

Scale, reckoning both the terms inclufively. ThisClif, ftanding in the middle, ferves for all Innerparts.

When we fee any one of thefe, we know there-by what part it is, and alfo what Letters belongto each Line and Space, which, though (for bre-vity) not fet down at large, are, notwithftandingfuppofed to be in thofe five Lines and Spaces, infuch order and manner as they Hand in the Scale

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§ 2. Of n&ming the Degrees öf Sound.

B Efore we come to the Tuning of thefe De*grees, you may obferve, that a voice dothexprefs a Sound beft, when it pronounceth lömeWord or Syllable with it. For this caufe, as alfofor order and diftinttion fake, fix SyÜables wereufed in formet times, viz. 17t, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La,Which being joyned with thefe Seven Letters, theitScale was fet down in this mariner, as follows.