Part 1

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Italic text is represented by underscores around the text.

Footnotes in the original text were all marked with asterisks: I have renumbered these and represented them as through .

All other text enclosed between square brackets represents or describes the illustrations (for which see the HTML edition):

Pitches: [c, ... c ... a b c' (middle-C) d' e' ... c'' ... c''']

Round brackets: when around a single note these represent a note in the extract which was bracketed or otherwise highlighted. When around two or more notes, they represent a slur or beam.

Braces: surround simultaneous notes in a chord {a c' e'}

Accidentals:

In the main text, accidentals are written out in full, as [natural], A, G[sharp]. One table uses [#] for [sharp].

Accents and marcato: denoted by > and ^ before a note.

Time signatures: [4/4], [6/8], etc.

or [C/4] = C-shaped [4/4] time. [C|] or [C/2] = C-shaped [2/2] time. = A circle [O.] = A circle with a dot in the center [C.] = A broken circle (C-shaped) with a dot in the center

Rhythms (A trailing . represents a dotted note):

= Longa = Brevis = Semibrevis = Whole-note (Semibreve) = Half-note (Minim) = Quarter-note (Crotchet) = Eighth-note (Quaver) = Sixteenth-note (Semiquaver)

Lyrics and Labels: words aligned with the notes begin [W: ...]

Breves and macrons, used to denote short and long stresses in poetry are denoted ['] and [-] respectively.

For example, here's a D minor scale set to words:

And a simple rhythmic example:

CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS

Lectures delivered at Columbia University

BY EDWARD MACDOWELL

EDITED BY W.J. BALTZELL

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