New wn Revised Edition CELEBRATED ft 4 exc TORS, UD GO Gr CARCASS! oe I | il ‘GUITAR ee ao CARL FISCHER, inc. in t + a ») COOPER SQUARE K NEW YORK. aINDEX. Page. RUDIMENTS OF MUSIC - - 0 TABLE OF NOTES - - - 1 DURATION OF NOTES ~ - -1 COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE RELATIVE VALUE OF NOTES 2 BARS - - - -~- - -~ - - 2 RESTS - - - - - - - 2 DOTS. - - TRIPLETS, DOUBLE. TRIPLETS. AND GROUPS. - - 3 TIME ~- - ---3 TABLE OF TIMES _ 1 lla SCALES - -~- - ~ -~ - -4 FLATS - - 4 TABLE OF SIGNATURES oF FLATKEYS - - - 5 SHARPS - ~- 5 TABLE OF SIGNATURES oF SHARP KEYS - - - 5 THE NATURAL - - 5 THE LEGATO OR SLUR THE. TIE AND SYNCOPATION ~ 7 Sa TONS ABBREVIATIONS - . - - 7 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GUITAR ~- 9 SCALE SHOWING THE NOTES, AND THE EXTENT OF THE FIRST POSITION - - - -u THECHORDS ~- - - - - -v THE BARRER _. - 13 ARPEGIOS WITH THREE AND FOUR FINGERS -~ - - 13 SCALE OF MAJOR-~ - - SCALE OF MAJOR - - - SCALE OF MAJOR. - - SCALE OF MAJOR - - - SCALE OF MAJOR-~ - - SCALE OF MAJOR - - - SCALE OF MINOR-~ ~ - SCALE OF MINOR - - - SCALE OF MINOR. - - APPENDIX Seca Page. THE SLUR - ~ - - - - THE SLIDE - - - - - - THE APPOGIATURA ~- - - THE GRUPPETTO - - - - THE TRILL - = = = THE MORDENTE - - - - MUFFLED NOTES ~ ~- SCALE IN THE ‘4th POSITION SCALE IN THE 5th POSITION SCALE IN THE 7th POSITION SCALE IN THE 9th POSITION DOUBLE NOTES - - ee SCALE INTHIRDS -~ - - SCALE IN SIXTHS-~ - - - SCALE IN OCTAVES~ - - SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE SCALE OF B MINOR-~ - - OF F Sharp MINOR- - OF C Sharp MINOR - OF B MAJOR - - ~ OF G Sharp MINOR OF F Sharp MAJOR. - OF D Sharp MINOR - OF B Flat MAJOR ~~ OF G MINOR - . - OF E Flat MAJOR ~~ OFC MINOR. ~~ OF A Flat MAJOR. - OFF MINOR. — . SCALE OF D Flat MAJOR- - SCALE OF B Flat MINOR HARMONICS . - FIFTY EXERCISES PROGRES- SING IN DIFFICULTY - CARNIVAL OF VENICE Paganini AGATHA POLKA ~~ M.carc HERMOSE POLKA- M. AZELIA POLKA- -M.C: HERMINA POLKA - M.Carcassi. A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL WORDS USED IN MODERN MUSIC. - - - . - - - tt? Copyright 1890 by Carl Fischer, New York. INTENTHS - - -5 38 a au 43 44 45 45 a7 49 55 56 60 132RUDIMENTS OF MUSIC Before the student can commence to play any instrument it is necessary that he should be acquainted with the rudiments of musical Notation. The signs, which indicate pitch and duration of a musical sound, are called Notes figured thus: o 2 J DS Fh ict, They are named after seven letters of the alphabet; C.D.E. F. G. A.B. and are writ- ten on, between, above or below five parallel lines called the Stave, the names of which are determined by Gufs, placed on different lines. For this instrument, only the treble or G clef = is used, which is placed on the se- cond line. The names of the notes on the five lines are: EG BDF of the four spaces 7 between the lines: (25a of the two above and below the lines GF FACE D These eleven notes are insufficient to indicate the full compass of Sounds in use. Ledger lines have therefore to be added, above and below the stave in order to signi- fy higher and deeper sounds. A EFS apcReset + Notes of the ledger lines above the stave (ee . Notes of the ledger lines below the stave 42 == 7 3 BOA THO tee FULL TABLE GF ABOVE NOTES + . Th = SSS BC DEFGA DURATION OF NOTES Notes may be of longer or shorter Duration which is shown by the peculiar form of each note. Forms of different notes Whole note; Half note; Quarter note; —-Bighth note; Sixteenth note; Thirtysecond note. The latter three kinds may also: be written in combination thus: Bighth notes; Sixteenth notes; Thirtysecond notes. risus-6 0