Clement Antrobus Harris

“ Carrying a measure from the end of one score to the beginning of the next is not practised now, as it once was.
Bar-lines are usually drawn through each stave of vocal music separately, and in instrumental music through as many staves as belong to the same instrument or group of instruments, e.g., through the two staves of a piano part, and the four or five belonging to the "strings" in a full score. ”

“ In pianoforte and organ music, high parts for the left hand, or low ones for the right, may be written either:
By means of leger lines (Fig. 3, a) ;
By changing the clef (b) ; or
By writing the part in the stave proper to the other hand (c) .
Fig. 3
The example, of course, illustrates a high part for the left hand.
The first method is the hardest to write and read. There is not much to choose between the second and third. If the third be adopted care must be taken not to insert rests in the vacant stave: their absence shows that the hand is not resting. ”

“ Intelligent knowledge of Notation is the more necessary inasmuch as music-writing is in only a comparatively few cases mere copying. Even when writing from a copy, some alteration is frequently necessary, as will be shown in the following pages, requiring independent knowledge of the subject on the part of the copyist. ”

“ Uniform bar-lines may be ruled a page at a time, if care be taken not to make the line continuous through more than the required number of staves. It is a fault which one commits the moment watchfulness is relaxed, and entails much scratching out. ”

“ Where, however, in vocal or instrumental music the measures vary greatly, one having, perhaps, a single whole note and the next thirty-two thirty-second notes, it is necessary to plan each score separately, or the end may be reached with too much space for the last measure, but not enough for an- other one. ”

“ The customary way of writing signatures is not, in the writer's opinion, invariably the best. But solecisms, though not in themselves inaccurate, should be avoided as causing unnecessary trouble and confusion. ”

“ While containing some matter which may have escaped the attention of more advanced musicians, they should, in an educational course, either be used along with a Primer on the Elements, or immediately follow it. ”

“ Full-score paper: much smaller than short-score staves. Very useful for other purposes where a small, narrow stave is required.
For piano and violin music, paper should be chosen the staves of which are wide apart, to allow of the large number of leger lines frequently required.
Scoring.3.—The paper chosen, the first use of a pen will be in ruling the score-lines. A "score" technically is as many staves as are performed simultaneously: two in pianoforte music, three in organ music, four in an unaccompanied quartet, six in four-part vocal music with piano accompaniment, and so on. ”