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A dictionary of musical terms, 1891
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1Halil. [Khalil.]
2Hallelujah. [Alleluia.]
3Halling. A Norwegian dance somewhat of the character of a country dance.
4Hals (G.) The neck of an instrument.
5Halt (G.) Pause.
6Hammer. (1) A piece of wood having a padded end or a nob, with which strings are struck. (2) The iron or wood striker of a bell.
7Hammerclavier (G.) [Pianoforte.]
8Hanaise. A kind of polka, or polacca polonaise.
9Hand-guide. [Guide-main.]
10Hand-horn. The horn without valves or pistons.
11Hardiment (F.) Boldly, daringly.
12Harfe (G.) [Harp.]
13Harke (G.) An instrument for ruling the stave.
14Harmonic flute. [Harmonic stops.]
15—— scale. The scale formed by a series of natural harmonics.
16—— stops. Organ-stops, both flute and reed, having tubes twice the normal length, but pierced with a small hole in the middle.
17—— triad. The common chord; a note with its third and perfect fifth.
18Harmonica. (1) An instrument, the tones of which are produced by striking rods or plates of glass with hammers. It has a compass of about two octaves. (2) A name sometimes given to a mixture stop on foreign organs. [Armonica.]
19Harmonichord. An instrument played like a pianoforte, but sounding like a violin. The tone is produced by the friction of a revolving cylinder of wood, covered with leather and charged with rosin, upon wire strings.
20Harmonicon. A toy instrument which consists of free reeds inclosed in a box in such a way that inspiration produces one set of sounds, respiration another.
21Harmoni-cor. An instrument invented by Jaulin of Paris, consisting of a series of free reeds similar to those used in the harmonium, placed in a tube shaped like a clarinet. The compass is two octaves, with intermediate semitones.
22Harmonics. The sounds produced by a vibrating string or column of air, when it is subdivided into its aliquot parts. Harmonics are produced on the violin, &c., by lightly pressing the strings in playing.
23Harmonie Musik (G.) Music for wind instruments.
24Harmonique (F.) Harmonic.
25Harmonium. A keyed wind instrument whose tones are produced by the forcing of air through free reeds. The better class of harmoniums have several sets of vibrators of different pitch and of various qualities of tone.
26Harmonometer. An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds.
27Harmony. (1) An agreeable combination of sounds heard at the same time. (2) The just adaptation of the parts of a composition to each other. (3) The grammar of part-music.
28Harp. An instrument of triangular form, furnished with gut strings, which are plucked by the fingers. Its compass varies from three to six and a half octaves, according to size. There are several kinds still in use: the triple or Welsh harp, with three rows of strings; the double harp, with two rows; the single-action pedal harp, with one row, and pedals which alter the pitch of the notes; the double-action pedal harp, the invention of Erard, which has a compass of six and a quarter octaves, and the power of changing the pitch of each note two semitones. This last-named harp is the one now generally employed for concert or orchestral purposes. The harp, in various forms, may be traced to a very remote antiquity.
29Harpe (F.) A harp.
30Harpist (E., G.) A player upon the harp.
31Harpscol. [Harpsichord.]
32Harpsichord. A stringed instrument with a keyboard, similar in form to a modern grand pianoforte. As the pressure of the fingers upon the keys, when heavy or light, made no difference in the quantity of tone produced, the harpsichord sometimes had two keyboards, one for the loud, the other for the soft tones. There were also stops in some instruments, by means of which the tone could be modified by connecting the mechanism with or detaching it from the three or even four strings with which each tone was furnished. The keys were attached to levers, which at their ends had slips of wood, called "jacks," furnished with plectra of crowquill or hard leather; these struck or twanged the strings and produced the tone, which has been likened to "a scratch with a sound at the end of it."
33Hastig (G.) Quick.
34Haupt (G.) Principal, chief, head; as Hauptnote, the essential note in a turn or shake, &c.
35Hauptmanual (G.) The great organ.
36Hauptnote (G.) An essential note.
37Hauptperiode (G.) Principal subject.
38Hauptsatz (G.) Principal theme or subject.
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