text shows that it is the eighth note not the half note which is intended to be dotted. All the dots except that to the last note but one should have been in the space below the note, where this is on a line.
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Logic would suggest that where a doubled, that is a two-stemmed, note is dotted in both parts or voices, two dots should follow one above the other. This would, however, be awkward when the note was in a space; and also when it was on a line, if, as in the last group above, both voices proceeded to a lower note (or both to a higher). For according to the rule here being considered, both dots would have to be in the space below (or above).
There is another slight inaccuracy in the above example which will be noticed later on. Let the tyro try and find it!
21.—As regards distance from the note they prolong, time-dots may be written either immediately after such note, as in Fig. 16, or in the part of the measure with which they syn-
