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How to Write Music

INDEX

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The numbers refer to the Paragraph, not the Page.

PARAGRAPH

Accidentals 44–48, 51

Barring 4

Beat-lines 14

Bind 14

Black-notes 42

Change of Key 4

Change of Time 7

Chords 54

Clefs 5

Common Faults 5, 6, 12, 13, 22, 34, 36, 52

Compound Time 13

Copyright 55

Crossing Parts 24

Direct 5

Dots 20, 9, 14, 40

Erasures 53

Extracting a Single Part 50

Facility 54

German Quarter Note Rests 17

Grace-notes 23

Groups 13, 23, 30, 32, 35, 38

Half Note Head with Eighth Note Hook 42

Historical Notes 7, 14, 21, 27, 31

Hooks 29, 42

Introductory 1

Key Signature 4, 6

Leger-lines 36

Legibility 52

Mapping-out 4

Mercer's Psalter 4

Morley's Practical Music 14

Notation of Rhythm 8, 32

Open Score 16, 20, 23

Open Score to Short Score 41

Organ Music 23

Over-lapping Iteration (Piano) 11

Paper 2

Part Writing 19, 44

Pause 50

Placing of Notes 14

Playford's “Whole Booke of Psalms” 27, 31

Rests 15–19, 12, 50

Rhythm, Notation of 8, 32

Scoring 3

Short Score 18, 24

Short Score to Open 42

Sign of Perfection 7

Signatures 6, 4, 7

Simple Time 12

Slur 37, 39

Sonata Pastorale 9

Stems 22

Of Rests 25, 16, 18

Stroke and Dot 9

Three Parts on One Stave 24

Ties 10, 11, 14, 37

Time Signature 7

Turn Over 4, 5

Unnecessary Accidentals 51

Vocal music 37, 23

(Exception 4) 35, 40

Words (See also “Vocal Music”) 4

☞ When a higher number precedes a lower in the above index, it is because it refers to a more important Paragraph.

Transcriber's Note:

The following is a list of corrections made to the original. The first passage is the original passage, the second the corrected one.

Page 3: Quartet-paper: four stave score, no brackets Quartet-paper: four-stave score, no brackets

Page 35: Leger-lines, Leger-lines.

Page 40: case the notehead of shorter duration must be case the note-head of shorter duration must be

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