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A dictionary of musical terms, 1898
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1Cornet-à-pistons. A modern brass instrument of the trumpet family, having valves or pistons by means of which a complete chromatic scale can be produced.
2Corner (F.) [Cornare.]
3Cornetto (I.) [Cornet.]
4— curvo (I.) [Cornet.]
5Corni (I.) Horns.
6Corno (I.) [Horn.]
7— alto (I.) High horn in B.
8— basso (I.) Low horn in B.
9— di bassetto (I.) [Basset-horn.]
10— da caccia (I.) Hunting horn.
11— inglese (I.) [Cor anglais.]
12— storto (I.) Cornetto curvo.
13Cornopean. [Cornet-à-pistons.]
14Cornu (L.) A horn.
15Coro (I.) [Chorus.]
16— della chiesa (I.) Church choir or chorus.
17— primo (I.) The first chorus or choir in eight-part music
18Corona (I.) A pause ˙
19Coronach. [Coranach.]
20Corps de voix (F.) The quality or the fulness of the voice.
21Corrente (I.) [Corinto.]
22Corréditéteur (F.) The instructor of the chorus; one who teaches the choral body to sing their several parts by ear.
23Cortaud. [Courtal.]
24Corthal. [Courtal.]
25Coryphæus (L.) (1) A leader or conductor of the dances or chorus. (2) An officer in the university of Oxford, whose duty it was to give instruction in music; now abolished.
26Coryphée (F.) (1) A leader of the groups of dancers. (2) A female dancer.
27Cotillon (F.) A lively, spirited dance, originally performed by a male and a female; now danced with any step by an unlimited number of dancers, and with various additions of ceremonial.
28Couac (I.) An onomatopœic word for the sound made by bad blowing on the clarinet, oboe, or bassoon. The quacking sound, the goose note.
29Couched harp. A spinet.
30Coulé (F.) A glide. (1) Slurred notes. (2) A slide in dancing. (3) An ornament in harpsichord music.
31Counterpoint. (1) "The art of adding one or more parts to a given melody." (2) "The art of harmonising a theme by adding parts which shall be in themselves melodious." Counterpoint is simple or double; simple when it combines two or more independent melodies together, and double "where the parts are inverted in such a manner that the uppermost become the lowermost, and vice versa." Notes were formerly called points, and adding a counterpoint means the setting one point or note against another.
32Counterpoints, triple and quadruple as their names show, are the due construction of three or four melodies respectively, in such a manner that they can be interchangeable without involving the infringement of the laws of musical grammar.
33Counter-subject. An accompaniment of the answer or of the subject in a fugue.
34Counter-tenor clef. The C clef placed upon the third line of the stave for the use of counter-tenor or alto voices, the viola, &c.
35— voice. The old name for the alto voice. [Alto voice.]
36Country-dance. A rustic dance, of English origin, in which the performers are arranged face to face. It is danced to tunes in duple as well as triple measure.
37Coup d'archet (F.) Stroke of a bow.
38Couper le sujet (F.) To abbreviate or curtail a musical subject or theme.
39Coupler. The mechanism in an organ which connects pedals with the manuals; or different manuals together.
40Couplet. Two lines in rhyme, which contain a complete sentence. (2) A verse of a song. (3) Two notes occupying the time of three.
41Courante (F.) [Coranto.]
42Couronne (F.) The sign of a pause ˙; so called because of its resemblance to a crown.
43Courtal (F.) An ancient instrument of the bassoon kind.
44Coutraud (F.) An ancient instrument of the bassoon kind.
45Covered consecutives. Hidden consecutives. [Consecutives.]
46— strings. Strings of silk, wire, or gut, covered with a fine wire.
47Cownterynge yn songe (old E.) Singing an accompaniment to a tune. [Descant.]
48Crackle. A direction in lute-playing.
49Cracoviak (Pol.) A dance in 3/4 time.
50Cracovienne (I.) A dance in 3/4 time.
51Credo (L.) One of the movements in a Mass.
52Crembalum. [Jew's-harp.]
53Cremona. (1) A violin made in the town of Cremona. (2) A reed-stop in the organ. A corruption of the word Krummhorn or Crom-horn.
54Cremorne (F.) [Krummhorn.]
55Crepitaculum or Crepundia (L.) An ancient instrument like the castanets, but with sound produced more by friction than striking.
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