How to Write Music: Musical Orthography

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By Clement A. Harris Associate of the Royal College of Organists
Edited by Mallinson Randall
New York The H. W. Gray Co. Sole Agents for Novello & Co., Ltd.
Copyright, 1917 BY THE H. W. GRAY CO.
Made in the United States of America
The numbers refer to the Paragraph, not the Page.
How to Write Music
Introductory.
Yet many musicians, thoroughly competent as performers, cannot write a measure of music without bringing a smile to the lips of the initiated.
Many performers will play or sing a note at sight without hesitation, which, asked to write, they will first falter over and then bungle—at least by writing it at the wrong octave.