xxviy, Rules for Interpretation. ‘hatin this case, the Vga sald be considera sate beginning of new group iat el Alle. tie Alle: Me ia, ‘This third rue hols good only when it doesnot clash with rales 1 or 2. 1) Example in which rule 1 takes prsadence ia salicus of three note, the note marked with the vertical epleena mst a bevlengtbened as though it were marked witha hariyontalepizema (Cl. above Sellen). Were it nt forthe didicalty of writing ft the later woul have Beco ‘io! inread, b) Another example in which rule 2 prevails is the case of the Pressus or the le Me thet te Cone ing the dole note the place theists or rhythmic step, Elsewhere it would be on the rst nate ofthe! gros con In thi connection it shoal ben that the falling + fs not aPropreedettyapunctum: ELS beta Distophe EER folowed by a Cis: ‘As regards this last example it shoald be remembered that are cor freslayer of voce) is requied each Ume a note acted Dy fhe feta of th ‘tne dgres asthe one immediately preceding it Briefly the, the ites or rythve sep paced on the beginning ofeach grout dae ys Prema, Osa, of by the vertical poems already market 1, in applying the thre rules given above, we mest with some passage containing tore than tee single nos from one ictus to the next we sll a {Srput inbetween, asa stepping stone, an ictus of subdivision, if we have fw Tos is of course will gv 5-2; if we have five notes we ball divide them ‘Stuer 248 or 373, ating to what seems tobe suggested by the melody © fext, and to be the more naturel arrangement. Insptlabic in which there i no vertical episema, and no tong note © aroup’ appears we shall desde for ouaeves in one or other of the Blowing fer