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GCDEFG . This was the most See also:

common See also:scheme for the See also:short See also:octave during the 16th and 17th centuries, although others are occasionally found. See also:Praetorius also gives examples in which the See also:black notes of the short octave were divided into two halves, or See also:separate keys, the forward ' See the See also:original See also:Greek with See also:translation by See also:Charles Maclean in " The Principle of the See also:Hydraulic See also:Organ," Intern. Musikges. vi. 2, 219-220 (See also:Leipzig 1905). See See also:Clement Loret's See also:account in Revue archeologique, pp. 76-102 (See also:Paris, 189o). See also:Early Hist. of See also:Spanish See also:Music (See also:London, 1807). Reproduced by Dr Alwin Schulz in Deutsches Leben See also:im XIV. u. X V. Jhdt., See also:figs. 522 seq.

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Vienna, 1892). " De diversis monocordis, pentacordis, etc., ex quibus diversa formantur instrumenta musica," reproduced by Edm. See also:van der Straeten in Hist. de la musique aux Pays-Bas, i. 278. See also:half for the See also:drone See also:note, the back half for the See also:chromatic semitone, thus: Ftl IG# b E Bb C F GAB C This arrangement, which accomplishes its See also:object without See also:sacrifice, was to be found early in the 17th See also:century in the See also:organs of the monasteries of Riddageshausen and of See also:Bayreuth in See also:Vogtland. See A. J. Hipkins, See also:History of the See also:Pianoforte (London, 1896), and the older See also:works of See also:Girolamo Diruta (1597), Praetorius (1618), and See also:Mersenne (1636). (K.

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