From the double bars, where the voices are united, they proceed in continued alternation.
Canon for Three Male Voices.
[To which, the composer having set no words to it, we have added a Grace, once in much use.]
N.B. It is better and more pleasing if the voices do not commence all at the same time. [This remark was unnecessary, as the voices in such canons never begin together.]
[The Author then gives the same Canon as a close and open one, but as these are similar in form to the first, it is not necessary to insert them.]
The same mode of treatment is adopted in writing canons of four or more parts, in unison.