Every letter has its own peculiar air, which air is very much hurt if the tune is not rightly pitched; for instance, if a tune is set on A natural, and in pitching the tune, you set it a tone too low, you transpose the key into G, which is perhaps quite different from the intention of the author, and oftentimes very destructive to the harmony. - William Billings

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William Billings: "Every letter has its own peculiar air, which air is very much hurt if the tune is not rightly pitched; for instance, if a tune is set on A natural, and in pitching the tune, you set it a tone too low, you transpose the key into G, which is perhaps quite different from the intention of the author, and oftentimes very destructive to the harmony."

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Harmony	Hurt	Instance	Intention
Into	Letter	Natural	Oftentimes
Peculiar	Perhaps	Pitched	Pitching
Quite	Rightly	Tone	Transpose
Tune	Very

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