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A dictionary of musical terms, 1907
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1that style.—In a broader sense, any composition may be termed classic which, in its kind, might be taken as a model for imitation, and in which the form is in perfect harmony with the spirit or subject-matter.—Classic is also often used as a distinctive epithet for the works of the earlier masters, including Beethoven, and their imitators, in contrast to those of the romantic school; classic forms being the aria, rondo, sonata, symphony, etc.
3Clau'sula (Lat.) A cadence.
5Clavecin (Fr.) A harpsichord…Cl. acoustique, a French invention of the 18th century, imitating several stringed and wind-instruments.
7Claviatur' (Ger.) Keyboard (Klaviatur).
9Clavicem'balo (It.) Harpsichord.
11Clavichord. (Ger. Kla'vichord, Klavier'; Fr. clavicorde; It. clavicor'do.) One of the precursors of the pfte. (see Pianoforte), differing in action from the latter in having, instead of hammers, upright metal wedges called tangents on the rear end of the digitals; on depressing a digital the tangent struck the wire and remained pressed against it till the finger was lifted, causing only one section of the string to vibrate. (Compare Gebunden.)
13Clavicithe'rium(-cythe'rium.) An obsolete instr., supposed to have been a kind of harpsichord, but with the strings stretched in a vertical frame instead of horizontally.
15Clavicor (Fr.) A kind of cor à pistons.
17Clavicylin'der (Ger.) A keyboard instr. inv. by Chladni about 1800, containing a glass cylinder caused to revolve by a treadle, and steel wands or bars instead of strings, which were pressed against the revolving cylinder on touching the digitals, and thus made to sound; compass 4½ octaves.
19Clavier' [-veer']. (Ger. Klavier'.) 1. A keyboard (Klaviatur).—2. (Ger.) Generic name for all keyboard instr.s except organs; especially (formerly) for the clavichord, and (at present) for the pianoforte. See Klavier.
21Clavier (Fr.) 1. A keyboard…Posséder son cl., to know one's keyboard… Cl. de récit, Récit expressif, swell-manual (organ).—2. The range or scale of notes comprised on the grand staff without leger-lines.
23Claviglissan'do. A keyboard instr. consisting of a combination of mechanisms for producing various harmonium effects, and also the portamento of the violin; inv. by Le Jeune.
25Cla'vis (Lat.) 1. A key (digital), clef, or note.—2. Bellows-handle.
27Clé, Clef (Fr.) 1. Clef; armer la clef, to furnish the clef with the key-signatures.—2. Key (of a wind-instr.)
29Clef. (Ger. Schlüs'sel: Fr. clé, clef; It. chia've.) A character set at the head of the staff to fix the pitch or position of one note, and thus of the rest. The 3 now in use are the F-clef, C-clef, and G-clef; the F-clef and G-clef are also called the Bass-clef and Treble-clef respectively, because they fix the position of the bass and treble notes. The C-clef is variously called the Tenor-, Alto-, and Soprano-clef, according as it is set on the 4th, 3d, or 1st line of the staff; wherever placed, it marks the position of Middle-C (Tenor-C.) A view of the clefs used at present is appended.
31Bass-clefs. C-clefs. Treble-clef. Tenor-clef (recent).
33The F-clef on the 3rd line (Barytone-clef), the C-clef on the 2nd (Mezzo-Soprano-clef), the G-clef on the 1st line (French violin-clef), or on the 3rd line, are no longer used (the C-clef on the 2nd line occasionally). The is sometimes used in vocal double G-clef: music as a tenor-clef, signifying that the part lies an octave lower than written.—Our modern forms of the clefs are corruptions of the letters f, c, and g, formerly plainly written.
35Cliquette (Fr.) The bones.
37Close (noun; Ger. Schluss). See Cadence 3.
39Close harmony or position. See Harmony…Close play, a style of lute-playing in which the fingers were kept on the strings as much as possible.
41Co'da (It., "tail.") Specifically, a pas-
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