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A dictionary of musical terms, 1889
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1COUNTRY DANCE—CREMONA.
3DESCRIPTION DES FIGURES DE LA CONTREDANSE.
51. La grande chaine, un demi tour.
62, 3. La poussette dessus, et dessous, et la piroüette à chaque bout.
74. Autre ½ tour de chaine, la poussette, et la piroüette au bout.
85, 6, 7, 8. Gager d'une place sur le côté; deux se tenant les mains passent en dedans et les deux autres en dehors, continuant à passer de cette manière 4 fois, jusqu'à ses places, faisant deux balancé à chaque place.
99. La chaine des dames sur les côtés.
1010. Un tour allemande en piroüettant.
1111. Refaire la chaine des dames.
1212. Un tour d'allemande. LA MAIN.
14LA NLE SOCIETE
15PLAN
16Des Figures de la Contredanse
18The subjoined is the melody to which it was danced:
20"LA NOUVELLE SOCIETE," Contre-danse Allemande.
22Mineur.
242 fois la rep. du majeur en rondeau, et deux fois chaque rep. du mineur.
26Coup d'archet (Fr.) Stroke of a bow.
27Couper le sujet (Fr.) To abbreviate or curtail a musical subject or theme.
28Coupler. The mechanism which connects pedals with the manuals; or, different manuals together. [Organ.]
29Couplet. (1) Two lines in rhyme, which contain a complete sentence. (2) A verse of a song. (3) Two notes occupying the time of three, e.g.:
31Courante (Fr.) [Coranto.]
32Couronne (Fr.) The name for the sign of a pause ^.
33Courtaut, Cortaud, Corthal. An ancient instrument of the bassoon kind. [Bassoon.]
34Covered consecutives. Hidden consecutives. [Consecutives.]
35Covered strings. Strings of silk, wire, or gut, covered with a fine wire by means of a machine, by a process technically termed string-spinning. Covered strings are used for pianofortes, violins, violoncellos, guitars, &c., the wire covering, by adding weight and strength to the string, makes it slower of vibration, while, on the other hand, it is more elastic than an uncovered string of the same diameter.
36Cownterynge yn songe (Old Eng.) In Lat. concentus or accentus, singing an accompaniment to a tune. [Descant.]
37Cracovienne. [Polacca.]
38Crackle. A direction in lute playing, thus explained by "Maister" Thomas Mace, 1676: "To crackle such three part stops is only to divide each stop, with your thumb and two fingers, so as not to loose time, but give each crotchet its due quantity." [Arpeggio.]
39Credo (Lat.) One of the movements in a mass. [Mass.]
40Crembalum. [Jew's Harp.]
41Cremona. (1) A violin made in the town of Cremona. (2) A reed stop in the organ. A corruption of the word Krummhorn.
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