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Rh end at the same time. This would involve writing one of them in the wrong part of the measure (see "Placing of Notes," par. 14).

Hence, as a dotted quarter is a sixteenth shorter than two dotted eighths and a sixteenth, and therefore the final note does not begin at the same time (though it ends at the same time) in the treble and alto parts of the last group of Fig. 16 (par. 35), the example is inaccurate. It should have been written thus:

and would be so played were the passage given, say, to two violins.

[The tyro must not mistake the above two final note-heads, the longer of which comes first, for a breach of the rule exemplified in Fig. 31 (par. 42), and which applies to two notes which begin at the same time. Here the longer note begins before the shorter one.]