The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers (1899)
Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919 · Philadelphia : Printed for the author · leaf 195
nd noteswere thus usedwhich were not suit-able. In order thathe might not makemistakes in compos-ing, he had for eachkej certain domi-nant notes, com-monly four to theoctave, which hecalled rulers, butthe three othernotes, servants.Thus in they tunes,f, a, c, /, are therulers, but g, b, dthe… … ^.r^u-^.f^^^ Paradisiches Wimder-Spiel. 149 resolves itself again into the original key before the end. TheSuperintendent was a master in this, but his scholars suspectedthat he had done it in order to find a cause for fault-findingwith them ; for as soon as they changed to another key theirvoices…
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