What attempts were made to construct new scales?
What is meant by “Gamut”?
What is meant by C—fa—ut?
What names were given to the different forms of the Hexachord? What are the modern meanings of the terms?
What is the origin of the flat and natural signs?
Note the points of similarity and difference in the three scale forms on page 65 in this lesson. As an exercise take well-known airs to see if they are Authentic or Plagal. In the “Taming of the Shrew,” by Shakespeare, is a passage in which reference is made to the names of the notes as found in this lesson. Read this passage in class.
LESSON VI.
Notation.
System of Notation by Letters.—The earliest system of Notation, attributed to Boethius, the Roman philosopher, seems to have been the placing of letters over the syllables, thus:
C C D B C D
My country ’tis of thee.