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A dictionary of musical terms, 1889
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1Ausweichung (Ger.) Change, modulation.
2Authentic cadence. A final close, in which the common chord of the Tonic is immediately preceded by the common chord of the dominant. [Cadence.]
3Authentic mode. The name given to those modes on which were afterwards constructed other modes called Plagal, by an alteration of the pitch to a fourth below. [Plain Song.]
4Authentic part of the Scale, in Counterpoint and Fugue, is that which lies between a note and its Dominant, whilst that which lies between the Dominant and its superior Tonic is termed Plagal. The terms are used chiefly in connection with Subject and Answer. [Fugue.]
5Autos Sacramentales (Sp.) One of the early forms of Spanish drama, similar in some respects to the mysteries and moralities in England, but in which music and dancing formed an important part. The Autos had reference to the administration of the Sacraments according to the ideas received by the people.
6Auxiliary Notes. Notes not essential to the harmony, introduced for the sake of breaking monotony, or of giving freedom of motion to one or more of the parts. They may occur on either the accented or the unaccented part of the bar, and if introduced below the melody should be only a semitone from the proper note of that melody, but if above they may be either a tone or a semitone as the position in the scale would warrant, or taste suggest.
7Examples of extended auxiliary notes, and of auxiliary notes, on the accented part of the bar.
8Auszweichung—Azor.
9Auxiliary Scales. The scales of relative or attendant keys, q.v.
10Ave Maria (Lat.) (Hail! Mary.) The angel's salutation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, used in the Roman Catholic Church as an Antiphon.
11Avena (Lat.), lit. oats. An oaten pipe, hence (1) any simple reed used as a shepherd's pipe—"est modulatus avena Carmen," Tibull, 2, 1, 53. (2) The syrinx or pan-pipes, reeds joined together with wax—"pastor junctis pice cantat avenis," Ovid, Tristia 5, 10, 25. [Pan's pipes.]
12A vista (It.) At sight; at first sight.
13Away. A direction in Mace's Musicks Monument, published in 1676, signifying a return to the original time.
14Azione Sacra (It.) Sacred dramas: [Autos Sacramentales. Oratorio. Passion Music.]
15Azor (Heb.) This word which occurs in the Book of Psalms and elsewhere, is variously rendered according to the view which is taken of its association with nebel. In Psalm xxxiii., 2, "Sing unto him with a nebel and azor" some drop the "and" and understand azor as qualifying nebel, making the compound word to signify a "ten-stringed nebel" (psalterium decem chordarum). Whether the azor was a distinct instrument, or not, it is impossible to say, although Engel, Fétis, and some other authors have so considered it, and have ventured to assign to it a definite number of strings.
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