r of
the three best agrees with your Voice for a high or low Pitch.

Having gone through all the Rules, and being perfect in that, then it is
fit you should proceed to the other. There is no need you should meddle
or trouble your self with the _Tenor_ or _C Cliff_ because it keeps no
certain place; you must observe however, before you go further, to be
ready at naming the Lines and Spaces, so readily to tell, as soon as
you look on them, what letter any Line or Space is called or named by.

As for the rest, the _Cliff_ leads you to them, for beginning there, and
Ascending, you will find the letters lying in Order, and in descending;
it is only your naming them backwards.

The dash Lines, which you perceive above and below, are added only when
the Notes Ascend above the _Staff_, or descend below it.

_Directions as to the Distances of one Note from another, as to Sound._

In this case, the distances are not all equal, but that in the rising
and falling of any Eight Notes, there are two lesser distances; and
these are named _Semitones_, or the _Half Notes_, which must be well
observed and known, in remarquing their places in the _Staff_ of Lines;
and the better to have them in your Memory at all times take a rule from
certain Rhimes that point at their places, _viz._

_In every octave there are half Notes two,
Which do to us their proper places shew;
One half Note you will find from_ B _to_ Ce,
_The other half one lyes twixt_ Fa _and_ Le.

The _octave_ mentioned as an Eighth, and this Rule denotes the ordinary
places where you are to Sing the Half Notes, when there are no Flats or
Sharps placed or set in the Lines, _viz._ between _B_ and _Ce_, and
twixt _Le_ and _Fa_; these Flats and Sharps you will find thus marked
[Symbol: for Flat] [Symbol: for Sharp] and when the _Semitones_, or
_Half Notes_ are shifted, they are known by them when they are found
upon the Lines.

[Illustration: Music]

Observe, that in these Staves or Lines, you find the Notes Gradually
Ascending, of which the Pairs marked with Arches are half a Note
distant.

+-------+ G.
| |
+-------+ F.
1 +-------+ E.
| |
2 +-------+ D.
| |
3 +-------+ C.
4 +-------+ B.
| |
5 +-------+ A.
| |
6 +-------+ G.

This Marginal Figure, shews to the Eye the distance of the Seven Notes
one from another, the Letters Guiding or Directing to the Particulars,
whereas you perceive _B_, _Ce_, a