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A dictionary of musical terms, 1889
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1Practical Musick," 1678, the clefs are in this shape:
3Playford's Psalms, third edition, 1697, the following are the forms:
5Matthew Wilkins's "Book of Psalmody," 1699:
7Dr. Croft's "Thirty Select Anthems," 1724:
9Godfrey Keller's "Rules for playing a thorow-bass," 1731:
11Emanuel Bach's "Sechs leichte Clavier Sonaten," 1766:
13Malcolm, "A Treatise of Music," 1779:
15Shield's "Introduction to Harmony," 1800:
17In many modern French music books the F clef is written thus:
19In this a resemblance to the letter F, the ancient clef sign for this pitch, may be traced. Many writers have maintained that clefs create difficulties in the way of a "right understanding of music," and have therefore suggested their removal or the substitution of simpler signs.
21Thomas Salmon, 1676, proposed the use of the letter T, for the treble clef, M for the mean or C clef, and B for the bass clef. His proposal led him into a controversy with Matthew Locke, which was maintained on both sides in language not very creditable to either. Francis Delafond, in 1725, suggested the use of one clef only, the F, or bass clef. A century later, Miss Glover, in a pamphlet explaining her views on what she called the Tetrachordal System, proposed to abolish all clefs, a proposition which has since been carried out in the Tonic-Sol-fa method of teaching singing. The use of the treble clef for all purposes has also been recently advocated, but with little success.
23Clivus (Lat.) [Neumes.]
24Clocca (Med. Lat.) A bell. Irish, clog, a small bell. Fr. cloche. Ger. Glocke.
25Cloche (Fr.) A bell.
26Clochettes (Fr.) Hand-bells.
27Clock, to. To set a bell in vibration, by attaching a rope to the clapper, and swinging it to and fro till it strikes the side of the bell which remains stationary. It is an undesirable practice, as many valuable bells have in this manner been cracked.
28Clokerre (Old Eng.) Clocherre (Old Fr.) A belfry. In low Latin, clocherium.
29Close harmony. Harmony produced by drawing the parts which form it closely together.
30Close play. A direction in lute playing. The following explanation of the term is from Barley's Lute book: "Thou shalt not neede but to remoove those fingers which thou shalt be forced, which manner of handling we call close or covert play." It would appear to correspond to the smooth style sometimes adopted on the organ or other keyed instruments.
31Clynke-bell. [Chime.]
32C moll (Ger.) C minor.
33Coalottino. [Concertino.]
34Coda (It.) (1) The tail of a note. (2) The bars occasionally added to a contrapuntal movement after the close or finish of the canto fermo. (3) The few chords or bars attached to an infinite canon in order to render it finite; or a few chords not in canon, added to a finite canon for the sake of obtaining a more harmonious conclusion. (4) An adjunct to the ordinary close of a sonata, or symphony, &c., for the purpose of enforcing the final character of the movement.
35Codetta (It.) dim. of coda. A short coda.
36Codon (Gk. κώδων.) (1) A small bell, such as those attached to the trappings of horses. (2) A crier's bell. (3) The bell of a trumpet (Fr. pavillon). (4) A trumpet with a bell-mouth.
37Cogli stromenti (It.) With the instruments.
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