The words thus translated are: "Incipiendo graduum computacionem a loco inferiori in altum procedendo videlicet ut gradus infimus qui primus est sic signetur I.
The question of which Gury treats at page 594, is the necessity of mentioning the gradus propior, and not the gradus remotior, as stated in your correspondent's letter.
There can be no doubt that it was this passage which induced St. Liguori to conclude that if the gradus propinquior were the first or second, it should be expressed in the petition.
My teacher is very thorough: first, I shall have to dig through all the Gradus ad Parnassum; and then he is going to undertake a concerto of Beethoven's with me, and will write the proper fingering over it.
Now I am in the Gradus ad Parnassum: I have already studied the right fingering for it.
Gradus ad Parnassum=--A help to the composition of classic poetry.
Primus sapientiæ gradus est falsa intelligere=--The first step towards wisdom is to distinguish what is false.
As for the "Gradus ad Parnassum," the difficulties which Clementi piled up in the pianist's path, the pianolist overleaps as lightly and casually as if wholly unaware of their existence.
So the table was cleared, the cloth restored, and the three fell to work with Gradus and dictionary upon the morning's vulgus.
As a college term," says the Gradusad Cantabrigiam, "it is of very considerable antiquity.
Among the cant terms at that University, as given in the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, we find Soph-Mor as 'the next distinctive appellation to Freshman.
Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, "differs from a supper in this; viz.
A Supplicat, says the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, is "an entreaty to be admitted to the degree of B.
Fux, the well-known old theorist and composer, in Vienna, author of the "Gradus ad Parnassum.
In the first part, Tobias appears as the assistant of the celebrated and solid Kapellmeister Fux, holding the ladder for his Gradusad Parnassum.
