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A dictionary of musical terms, 1891
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1Emphasis. Accent, stress.
2Emporté (F.) Passionate, hurried.
3Empressé (F.) Eager, hurried.
4Enarmonico (I.) Enharmonic.
5En badinant (F.) Scherzando. [Scherzo.]
6Energia, con Energicamente (I.) With energy, forcibly.
7Energico
8Energisch (G.) With energy.
9Enfasi, con (I.) With emphasis.
10Enfaticamente (I.) With emphasis.
11Enfatico (I.) With emphasis, earnestly.
12Enfler (F.) To swell; to increase in sound.
13Enge (G.) Narrow, close, straight. A term used in reference to the small scale of organ-pipes, or to the closeness of subject and answer in a stretto.
14Engelstimme (G.) [Vox angelica.]
15Englisches Horn (G.) [Cor anglais.]
16English horn.
17Enharmonic. (1) One of the three genera of Greek music, the other two being the diatonic and chromatic. (2) Having intervals less than a semitone, e.g.: an enharmonic organ or harmonium is an instrument having more than twelve divisions in the octave, and capable, therefore, of producing two distinct sounds where, on the ordinary instrument, one only exists, as, for instance, G# and A♭, &c. An enharmonic scale is one containing intervals less than a semitone. (3) An enharmonic modulation is a change as to notation, but not as to sound.
18Ensemble (F.) Together; the whole. (1) The general effect of a musical performance. (2) The union of the whole company of performers in a concerted piece.
19Entr’acte (F.) Music played between the acts or divisions of an opera, drama, &c.
20Entrante (I.) Entry, introduction, or prelude.
21Entrata (I.) Entrée (F.)
22Entrechats (F.) The peculiar bounds with which a dancer leaps across the stage on entering.
23Entremese (S.) A short musical interlude, of a burlesque character.
24Entremets (F.) Short dramatic or allegorical entertainments, given to the Crusaders in the thirteenth century. Now used to signify any small entertainment between two greater ones.
25Entschlossenheit, mit (G.) With decision, firmness.
26Entusiasmo Entusiastico (I.) With enthusiasm.
27Entwurf (G.) A sketch.
28Eolian harp. A long narrow box of thin deal, about five or six inches deep, with six or more strings stretched over bridges fixed at each end. The strings must be tuned in unison, and the box placed in a free current of air. A delicate combination of sounds is then produced, increasing or decreasing in power with the force of the wind.
29Eolian mode. The fifth of the authentic Gregorian modes. It consists of the natural notes La, Si, Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol.
30Epicedion (Gk.) A dirge; elegy.
31Epigonion (Gk.) An ancient musical instrument, described as having forty strings.
32Epilenia (Gk.) Vintage songs.
33Epinette (F.) [Spinet.]
34Episode. A term in fugue writing, applied to those phrases which are supplemental to the main subjects or their answers.
35Epithalamium (Gk.) A nuptial song.
36Epode (Gk.) (1) An after-song; the strain of a lyric song after the strophe and antistrophe. (2) A burden or refrain.
37Equabilmente (I.) Equally; similarly.
38Equal temperament. The system of tuning by which the octave is divided into twelve mean semitones.
39—— voices. A term for an assortment of men’s voices or women’s voices. Thus, a piece is said to be set for equal voices when the voices of men only are needed, and, in like manner, when the voices of women only are required.
40Equivocal or doubtful chords. Chords which are common to two or more distinct keys, and which, when heard, make the listener doubtful as to the particular key-tonality into which they are about to be resolved.
41Erhaben (G.) Exalted, sublime; erhaben mit Majestät, in a sublime and majestic manner.
42Erhöhung (G.) Elevating, enhancing, raising; as, Erhöhungs-Zeichen, the sign of chromatic elevation, a sharp or natural.
43Erlöschend (G.) Extinguished; gradually dying away.
44Ermattet (G.) Weariedly.
45Erniedrigung (G.) Lowering, depressing; as, Erniedrigungs-Zeichen, the sign for chromatic depression, a flat or natural.
46Ernst Ernsthaft (G.) Earnest, serious.
47Ernsthaftigkeit (G.) Seriousness, gravity, earnestness.
48Ernstlich (G.) Earnestly, fervently, ardently.
49Ernstlichkeit (G.) Earnestness.
50Eroico (I.) Heroic.
51Erotique (F.) Amatory; as chanson érotique, a love-song.
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