 | William Forde (teacher of music.) - 1841 - 34 pages
...FORDE. London, 1841. LECTURE I. Upon the first ten Articles, Chap. I. Essay on the Key. You know that the first seven letters of the alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) arc used as the names of the notes in music. And you know that when the notes are not made Sharp or... | |
 | William A. Wordsworth - 1843 - 92 pages
...sounds are there ? Seven. How are they expressed ? By signs called notes, named, in England, after the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Are these notes varied in form to express the different sounds for which they stand ? No ; the difference... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 384 pages
...which, in each year, distinguishes Sunday. In the calendar, the days of the week are distinguished by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and the rule for applying them is, invariably, to put A for the first day of the year, whatever it... | |
 | 1847 - 300 pages
...Letter. — The seven days of the week, reckoned as beginning on the first of January, are designated by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, c, D, E, F, G ; and the one of these which denotes Sunday is the Dominical letter. Thus, if the year begin on Sunday,... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1851 - 752 pages
...Sunday. The seven days of the week, reckoned as beginning on the 1st of January, are designated as by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G; and the one of these which denotes Sunday is the Dominical letter. If the year begin on Sunday, A is... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1851 - 700 pages
...or Sunday. The seven days of the week, reckoned as beginning on the 1st of January, are designated by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G ; and the one of these which denotes Sunday is the dominical letter. If the year begin on Sunday, A... | |
 | John James Reese - 1852 - 386 pages
...each note has, consequently, its own number of vibrations, or pitch. These notes arc distinguished by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G., and the whole combined constitute the musical scale, or gamut. The loudness of musical tones depends... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...given day of the year, the framers of the ecclesiastical calendar denoted the seven days of the week by the first seven letters of the Alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, and G ; and placed these letters in a column opposite to the days of the year, in such a manner that... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1853 - 734 pages
...or Sunday. The seven days of the week, reckoned as beginning on the 1st of January, are designated by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G ; and the one of these which denotes Sunday is the dominical letter. If the year begin on Sunday, A... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1855 - 476 pages
...will be seen, that in the column which follows that of the numbers expressing the days of the month, the first seven letters of the Alphabet, A, B, c, D, E, F, and o, are annexed, and are continually repeated, for every successive series of seven days to the... | |
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The first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, are... 
