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The modified characters doubtless belong to an earlier period. They are needed for the three oldest keys — Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian — and also for the Enharmonic and Chromatic genera. If they are not part of the original scheme. THE NOTATION. 73 the musician who devised them may fairly be counted as the second inventor of the instrumental notation. In setting out the scales of the several keys it will be unnecessary to give more than the standing notes {(pOoyyoL e(TTS>res)j which are nearly all... represented by original or unmodified letters— the moveable notes being represented by the modified forms described above. The following fist includes the standing notes, viz. Proslambanomenos, Hypate Hypaton, Hypate Meson, Mese, Paramese, Nete Diezeugmenon and Nete Hyper- bolaion in the seven oldest keys : the two lowest are marked as doubtful : — 1 o ^1 0) u •0) N ^ Km ffis s d: ^Q ^x Mixo-lydian H I- D > N ^ = e^- e\J Lydian . . . h r C
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