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A dictionary of musical terms, 1889
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1AUDACE, CON—ÄUSSERE STIMMEN.
3Audace, con (It.). With vigour, boldness.
4Auditory nerve. [Ear.]
5Auferions (Old Eng.) Wire strings.
6Aufgeweckt (Ger.) Brisk, lively, sprightly, cheerful.
7Aufgewecktheit (Ger.) Sprightliness, liveliness.
8Aufhalten (Ger.) To stop, to keep back, retard.
9Aufhaltung (Ger.) Suspension. [Harmony.]
10Auflösung (Ger.) Resolution of a discord.
11Aufschlag (Ger.) Unaccented beat.
12Aufstrich (Ger.). An up bow in violin playing.
13Auftakt (Ger.) The unaccented part of a bar.
14Augmentatio (Med. Lat.) The lengthening of a note by the addition of half its length, thus corresponding to the use of the modern dot.
15Augmentation. The introduction of the subject of a fugue or canon, in the course of its progress, in notes of longer duration than those in which it was first proposed. [Fugue.]
17Augmented interval. [Interval.]
18Augmented subject. [Augmentation.]
19Auletes (Gk.) Αὐλητης. A player on the Aulos or Flute. [Aulos.]
20Auletrides (Gk.) Plural of αὐλητρίς. Female players on the Aulos or Flute, q.v.
21Aulæum (Lat.), αὐλαία (Gk.) The curtain of a theatre.
22Aulos (Gk.) ἀυλός, derived from ἀημι, to blow, as flute is from the Lat. flo. The most important wind instrument of the Greeks. The aulos was sometimes double, the two tubes being called dextra and sinistra, and sometimes male and female. Though generally rendered flute, there is much reason for supposing that it was a reed-instrument, or, at the least, that the term, used generally, included instruments of the oboe family. The fact that the two tubes were often of different lengths (impares) has been explained by saying that they were tuned in different modes. But it is far more probable that they were constructed like the arghool, and that the longer tube gave out a drone. The double flute was not unknown to the ancient Egyptians and Assyrians, as shown in figs. 1 and 2, but they were divergent, or perhaps actually separate from each other. Fig. 3 represents two ancient Greek flutes, preserved in the British Museum.
24Fig. 1.
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28Fig. 2.
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32Fig. 3.
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36A una corda (It.) With, or on, one string. A direction (1) in pianoforte music, to use the soft pedal. (2) In music for stringed instruments to play the passage so marked on one string only, by the shift. [Shift.]
37Ausarbeitung (Ger.) The working out of a theme, the climax of a composition.
38Ausdruck (Ger.) Expression, q.v.
39Ausführung (Ger.) (1) Performance or execution. (2) The working out of a subject in composition.
40Aushaltung (Ger.) The time a note occupies in sounding, the duration of sound, sustaining a sound.
41Aushaltungs-zeichen (Ger.) A pause ˘
42Äussere Stimmen (Ger.) [Extreme parts.]
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