A Complete Dictionary of Music: To which is Prefixed, a Familiar Introduction to the First Principles of that ScienceR. Phillips, 1811 - 291 pages |
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accompaniment acute ancient Greeks ancient music anthem appellation given bass breve called chant chord chorus church cient cliff composed composition concert concord consisting consonance counter-tenor crotchets dance degree diapason diatonic diatonic genus diatonic scale distinguished double epithet applied equal expression applied fifth fingers flat flute formed four fourth French fugue G Gammut Guido harmony harp harpsichord hautboy Heptachord hexachords hymns implying instru interval introduced invention Ital Italians kind length lowest note lyre melody ment mode movement musicians name formerly given name given natural octave opera organ originally passage performance piano-forte pipes pitch placed produced quavers recitative scale semibreve semitones sesquialtera seventh sing sixth soft solmization Sonata song sounds species stave stop strain stringed instrument strings strument style sung or played syllables tenor term applied tetrachord third Thorough-Bass tion tone treble treble-cliff note trumpet tuned unison verses viol violin vocal wind instrument written
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Page 15 - Frets, in music, certain short pieces of wire fixed on the finger-boards of guitars, &c. at right angles to the strings, and which, as the strings are brought into contact with them by the pressure of the fingers, serve to vary and determine the pitch of the tones. Formerly, these frets or stops consisted of strings tied round the neck of the instrument.
Page 46 - In in /I or barrel organs consist of a movable, turning cylinder, called a barrel, on which, by means of wires, pins and staples, are set the tunes it is intended to perform. These pins and staples, by the revolution of the barrel, act upon the keys within, and give admission to the wind from the bellows to the pipes. The hand-organ...
Page 15 - He died in 1665, of a pulmonary complaint, at the age of 54. FRETS ; certain short pieces of wire fixed on the finger-board of guitars, &c., at right angles to the strings, and which, as the strings are brought into contact with them by the pressure of the fingers, serve to vary and determine the pitch of the tones. The frets are always placed at such distances from each other, that the string which touches any particular fret is one semitone higher than if pressed on the next fret towards the head...
Page 46 - ... spike-nails. The pieces of which it is formed are only half the breadth and thickness of those of the keel. KEENERS ; the name of the Irish singing mourners. The Irish have always been remarkable for their funeral lamentations, and once were celebrated for their musical art, in the last sad offices to their departed friends. Formerly, these duties were performed by dressing the body of the deceased in grave-clothes, ornamenting it with flowers, and placing it on a bier ; when the relations and...
Page xix - The first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, are...
Page 17 - C and F, which, indeed, are the only keys in which the clarinet is heard to advantage. The music for this instrument is therefore usually written in those keys. There are, however...
Page 15 - Easy passages may be rendered difficult, and difficult ones impracticable, by bad fingering; and though there are many arrangements of notes which admit of various fingering, still, even in these, there is always one best way of disposing of the hand, either with regard to the notes themselves, or those which precede or follow them. But there are an infinite number of possible dispositions of notes, which can only be fingered in one particular way ; and every attempt at any other is but endangering...
Page 46 - Pibcorn, or hornpipe. The name given by the Welsh to a wind instrument consisting of a wooden pipe with holes at the sides and a horn at each end, the one to collect the wind blown into it by the mouth and the other to carry off the sounds as modulated by the performer.