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A dictionary of musical terms, 1889
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1B. (1) The name of the note above Pros-lambanos, in the greater perfect system of the Greeks. The first note of the lowest Tetra-chord (Hypaton). [Greek Music.]
2(2) The third note of the grave hexachord of the Guidonian system, in which it is B mi. [Notation.]
3(3) The seventh note of the normal scale C, the note Si [Si], in Tonic Sol-fa system Te.
4(4) The major scale having five sharps in its signature.
5(5) The note B♭ in Germany, where B♭ is known as H, whence the possibility of making the letters B, A, C, H, into a fugue subject,
6as has been done by Bach, Schumann, Liszt, and others.
7(6) In old solmizations this note was called a Mi. [Solfeggio.]
8There is no authentic church-mode commencing on this note, owing to the imperfection of its fifth when unraised by the signature.
9B. Abbreviation of Bass voice, Bassoon, and Double-bass.
10Baar-pÿp. The name of a stop in some of the Dutch organs; (lit.) the Bear-pipe, written also Bär-pfeife and Bären-pfeife, so called from the instrument played as an accompaniment to dancing bears.
11Baas or Base Dance. A dance or slow movement, similar to the Measure, q.v., or the Minuet, so called probably in contradistinction to the vaulting dances in which greater agility was displayed.
12"And then came downe the 1. prince and the lady Cecill, and daunced two baas daunces, and departed up againe; the 1. prince to the King, and the lady Cecill to the Queene."—Wright's Provincial Dictionary.
13Baccalaureus Musicæ (Lat.) Bachelor in Music.
14Bacchanalian Song. (1) Songs sung in procession during the worship of Bacchus. (2) Any song in praise or defence of wine drinking, of which there are numbers belonging to the 18th century.
15Bacchia. Kamchatdale dance, in 3/4 time.
16Bacchius. A metrical foot consisting of one short and two long syllables. [Metre.]
17Bacciocolo (It.) Tuscan musical instrument of the guitar kind.
18Bachelor of, or in, Music. The first of the degrees in music at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin. At Cambridge the degree is conferred next in seniority to that of Master of Arts. In Oxford and Dublin it is the lowest step in the Scale of Graduates. The hood worn by the Oxford and Dublin Bachelors is of blue silk, trimmed with white fur; at Cambridge the hood is the same as that worn by Masters of Arts. The degree is not conferred by any foreign University.
19Backfall. A Turn in Lute or Harpsichord music, written thus played
20Back fall. [Organ, § 10.]
21Badinage (Fr.) Playfulness.
22Bagana. The ten-stringed lyre of the Abyssinians. It has only five different notes, but each note has its octave-string.
23Bagatelles (Fr.) Sketches, short pieces, trifles.
24Bagpipe. The ascaulus (ἀσκαυλος) of the Greeks (from ἀσκός, a leathern bag, and ἀνλός, a pipe); the tibiae utriculariae or utricularium of the Romans; sampogna or zampogna of Italy; the cornemuse of France; the chifonie or symphony of the middle ages; the souggarah or zouggarah of the Arabians. An ancient wind instrument of almost universal adoption, formerly in common use in every part of Europe, but now only found in parts of Italy, Sicily, Calabria, Brittany, Poland, and Scotland, in form more or less varied; in Ireland the bagpipes under the name of the Union pipes, are yet to be met with, but as a musical instrument among the English it has completely disappeared, in consequence of the advance in musical taste. A form of bagpipe is probably meant by the word symphonia (Dan. iii. 15) translated in the Italian version of the Bible zampogna. In its general construction the bagpipe consists of a leathern bag frequently formed of the whole skin of a kid or other small animal, which contains the wind conveyed from the mouth of the player through a tube, a small valve preventing its rapid escape. The sound comes from four
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