Excerpt from Musical Grammar: In Four Parts, I. Notation;, II. Melody;, III. Harmony;, IV. Rhythm The design of the following Work is, to compress in a small volume, the leading princi ples of Practical Music. From the analogy which exists between Music and Language, the Author has presumed to adopt a classification first suggested by the German Theorists, and to entitle the whole a Musical Grammar. He has endeavoured, by Examples selected from the best Authors, and intermixed with Musical Characters, to render the instructions more satisfactory than if they were merely verbal and he only regrets that, in many in stances, they could not be made more exten sive, without injuring the due proportion of the parts and the portable size of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.