...trouble and waste of time, and a few minutes' attention will make any person perfectly familiar with it. The first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, have been employed by chronologists to designate the several days of the week, the first letter standing...

...kinds of Notes are there? There are seven. How are they expressed ? Names of Notes They are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet — A, B, C, D, E, F, G. How are the same Notes expressed in France and Italy ? They are expressed by the syllables, do, re,...

...to their pitch — that means, highness or lowness of sound. 15. — The Notes take their names from the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G ; but as there are far more sounds than seven, we continue after G by starting with A again. This eighth...

...LENGTH or duration of those sounds. TEACHER. — How are the Notes named ? The notes are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet — A, B, C, D, E, F, G. What relation does the letter of the alphabet — applied as a name — bear to the Note ? The letter...

...MUSIC I.— THE STAVE OR STAFF, AND ITS CLEFS. 1. THE sounds used in music are, in England, named after the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. We do not, however, employ these letters in writing music, but lines and spaces called by their names....

...Notation. — Musical sounds are indicated by certaiti character s culled uutes, which we named after the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. The first preparation for the study of music is the knowledge of Notation. Notation is to music what...

...corresponding musical sound.* Fig. 41. I ^ * § M ° ,* f ' u* e' S b 2 113. The notes are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G ; and they are also designated by the following series of seven syllables — viz., Do, Re, Mi, Fa,...

...twelve different diatonic scale*. The seven sounds of one of these twelve diatonic scales are named by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G; and C has been fixed upon to represent the key-note or first of the seven. Thii scale is called therefore...

...ADDITION TO THE SCALE-NAMES AND SYLLABLES. The Letters and G-Clef. — 1. The pitch of sounds is named by the first seven letters of the alphabet: a, b, c, d, e, f, and g. 2. You see by the diagram, that the pitch of 1 is c; 2 is d; 3 is e; 4 is/; 5 is g; 6 is a;...

...Pronounced Doe, Ray, Mee, Fab, Sole, Lab, Tee,J Doe. 5. The different degrees of pitch are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F and G, and are represented by the Staff, which consists of five parallel lines and the spaces in connection...