A new, easy, and correct system of vocal music1847 |
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accent altered barstroke bass stave beat and counted called character chord chromatic scales consecutive fifths corresponding crotchet descending discords dominant seventh dotted note eight sounds enharmonic scale equal example F sharp flat fifth four four-crotchet fourth and fifth G flat half a tone harmony instance inversion Key of G key-note learner leger line leger space lines and spaces lower lowest note major or minor measure melody minim minor key minor scale minor triads modulation musical scale musical sounds namely natural observed octave original key passage Perf perfect fifth pitch placed primary key primary scale pupil quavers relative fifth relative fourth relative key relative minor Scale of G second semitone second series second treble semibreve series of transpositions seven seventh and eighth sharp fourth sharpened shorter notes singing student syllable tenor third and fourth tion tonic treble clef treble stave triple tune voice whole tone
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Page 68 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God : All the vain things that charm me most I sacrifice them to his blood. 3. See, from his head, his hands, his feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down : Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown ? 4.
Page 43 - T'HERE is a happy land, *• Far, far away, Where saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day. Oh, how they sweetly sing, Worthy is our Saviour King, Loud let His praises ring — Praise, praise for aye.
Page 43 - Loud let His praises ring — Praise, praise for aye. 2. Come to this happy land, Come, come away ; Why will ye doubting stand— Why still delay ? Oh, we shall happy be, When from sin and sorrow free, Lord, we shall live with thee ! Blest, blest for aye. 3. Bright in that happy land Beams every eye — Kept by a Father's hand, Love cannot die.
Page 29 - Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I ; Freely welcome to my cup, Couldst thou sip and sip it up. Make the most of life you may ; Life is short, and wears away. " Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one.
Page 49 - Tis Jesus, the first and the last, Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home ; We'll praise him for all that is past, And trust him for all that's to come.
Page 38 - Friend of the friendless, and the faint ! Where should I lodge my deep complaint ? Where but with thee, whose open door Invites the helpless and the poor...
Page 52 - As she mingles her song with the gondolier's strain. 2. The winds are all hush'd, and the waters at rest; They sleep like the passions in infancy's breast: The winds, &c.
Page 38 - BEHOLD, the morning sun Begins his glorious way ; His beams through all the nations run, And life and light convey. 2 But where the gospel comes, It spreads diviner light ; It calls dead sinners from their tombs, And gives the blind their sight.
Page 10 - ... the semitones between the third and fourth, and the seventh and eighth notes of a major scale.