ve the Badness of the Voice of their Children, as their
Necessity makes them believe, that to sing and grow rich is one and the
same Thing, and to learn Musick, it is enough to have a pretty Face:
"_Can you make anything of her?_"

Sec. 6. You may, perhaps, teach them with their Voice----Modesty will not
permit me to explain myself farther.

Sec. 7. The Master must want Humanity, if he advises a Scholar to do any
thing to the Prejudice of the Soul.

Sec. 8. From the first Lesson to the last, let the Master remember, that he
is answerable for any Omission in his Instructions, and for the Errors
he did not correct.

Sec. 9. Let him be moderately severe, making himself fear'd, but not hated.
I know, it is not easy to find the Mean between Severity and Mildness,
but I know also, that both Extremes are bad: Too great Severity creates
Stubbornness, and too great Mildness Contempt.

Sec. 10. I shall not speak of the Knowledge of the Notes, of their Value,
of Time, of Pauses, of the Accidents, nor of other such trivial
Beginnings, because they are generally known.

Sec. 11. Besides the _C_ Cliff, let the Scholar be instructed in all the
other Cliffs, and in all their Situations, that he may not be liable to
what often happens to some Singers, who, in Compositions _Alla
Capella_,[6] know not how to distinguish the _Mi_ from the _Fa_, without
the Help of the Organ, for want of the Knowledge of the _G_ Cliff; from
whence such Discordancies arise in divine Service, that it is a Shame
for those who grow old in their Ignorance. I must be so sincere to
declare, that whoever does not give such essential Instructions,
transgresses out of Omission, or out of Ignorance.[7]

Sec. 12. Next let him learn to read those in _B Molle_, especially in
those[8] Compositions that have four Flats at the Cliff, and which on
the sixth of the Bass require for the most part an accidental Flat, that
the Scholar may find in them the _Mi_, which is not so easy to one who
has studied but little, and thinks that all the Notes with a Flat are
called _Fa_: for if that were true, it would be superfluous that the
Notes should be six, when five of them have the same Denomination. The
_French_ use seven, and, by that additional Name, save their scholars
the Trouble of learning the Mutations ascending or descending; but we
_Italians_ have but _Ut_, _Re_, _Mi_, _Fa_, _Sol_, _La_; Notes which
equally suffice throughout all the Keys, to one who knows how to read