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Rh the rhythm, but with the hand which is to play them (see d, Fig. 22). This is necessitated by the usage with regard to stems in such cases [see "Stems," par. 22, exception (2)].

Fig. 22.

35.—In vocal music notes should not have the same hook which are sung to a different syllable (see "Vocal Music," par. 37). Subject to these exceptions, notes must be grouped according to their rhythm.

36.—The appeal to the eye (see "Notation of Rhythm," par. 8, and "Placing of Notes," par. 14) must be maintained as regards the pitch as well as the duration of notes their perpendicular as well as their horizontal position. Consequently leger-lines must be the same distance from the stave, and from each other, as the stave-lines are one from another. Carelessness in this matter is very common and very confusing. How often a lower note looks as though above a higher one,