40.—Syllables sung to notes extending over more space than themselves should be followed by dots if forming a complete word, and by strokes, or hyphens, if parts of a word. See preceding examples.
41. In transcribing from open Open Score score to short score, a single sound to Short sung by two voices simultaneously Score, beginning and ending at the same time, should, if a whole note, be represented by two note-heads linked; if a half note or shorter note, by having two stems, one up and the other down:
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Fig. 29.
42.—Black notes, though of different lengths, may have the same note-head if they begin at the same time, the difference being shown in the hook or hooks:
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Fig. 30.
But a whole note and a half note must have separate note-heads, since a stem would turn a
