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A dictionary of musical terms, 1907
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1Deck'e (Ger.) Belly (of the violin, etc.); belly or soundboard (of the pfte.)
2Declaman'do (It.) "Declaiming"; in declamatory style.
3Declamation. In vocal music, the correct enunciation of the words, especially in recitative and dramatic music. (Comp. Deklamation.)
4Décomposé (Fr.) Unconnected.
5Décompter (Fr.) To sing with a portamento.
6Découplez (Fr.) In organ-music, "uncouple," "coupler off."
7Decrescen'do (It.) Growing softer; diminishing in force. Sign
8Dec'uplet. A group of 10 equal notes executed in the time proper to 8 notes of like value, or to 4 notes of the next highest value; marked by a slur over or under which a figure 10 is set. (Also Decimole, Dezimole.)
9Deduc'tio (Lat.) 1. The ascending series of syllables or tones in the hexachords of Guido d'Arezzo.—2. Acc. to later theoreticians, the resolution of a dissonance to a consonance.
10Defective. Same as Diminished.
11Deficien'do (It.) Dying away.
12De'gli (It.) Of the; than the.
13Degree. (Ger. Stu'fe, Ton'stufe; Fr. degré; It. gra'do.) 1. One of the 8 consecutive tones in a major or minor diatonic scale. Degrees are counted from below upward, the key-note being the first degree.—2. A line or space of the staff.—3. A step. (The prevailing confusion of the terms degree and step might be obviated by applying degree only to the tones, and step only to progression between conjunct tones, of the scale; the expressions whole step, half-step, and step and a half, are quite superfluous.)… Scale-degree, a degree of a scale… Staff-degree, a degree on the staff.
14Deh'nen (Ger.) To expand, extend; to prolong… Deh'nung, expansion, extension, prolongation; Deh'nungsstrich, in vocal music, a line of continuation after a syllable, indicating that it is to be sung to all notes over the line; dots are sometimes used instead… Gedeht', extended, prolonged; hence, slow, stately.
15Dei (It.) Of the; than the.
16Deklamation' (Ger.) Musico-poetical scansion.—"In vocal composition, the transformation of the poetic rhythm (metre) into a musical one; a song is badly deklamiert' when an unaccented syllable receives a strong musical accent or a long note; or when an accented syllable, or a word rendered prominent by the sense, receives a subordinate position in the melody on a weak beat or in short notes."[RIEMANN.]
17Del, dell', del'la, del'le, del'lo (It.) Of the; than the.
18Délassement (Fr.) A piece or performance of a light and trifling character.
19Deliberamen'te (It.) Deliberately… Delibera'to, deliberate.
20Delicatamen'te, con delicatez'za (It.) Delicately… Delica'to, delicate; in a delicate, refined style.
21Délié (Fr.) Non legato; leggero.
22Deli'rio (It.) Frenzy; con d., with frenzied passion.
23Delivery. Style (method and manner of singing); restrictedly, the enunciation of a singer.
24Démanché, Démanchement (Fr.) "Off the neck"; the thumb-positions in 'cello-playing… Démancher, to quit the neck of the 'cello.
25Demande (Fr.) "Question," i. e. the subject of a fugue. (Usually sujet.)
26Demi (Fr., "half"). Demi-bâton, 2-measure rest… Demi-cadence, half-cadence… Demi-croche, a 16th-note… À demi-jeu (a direction found mostly in reed-organ or harmonium-music), with half the power of the instr., mezzo forte… Demi-mesure, half-measure… Demi-pause, half-rest… Demi-quart de soupir, a 32nd-rest… Demi-soupir, an eighteenth rest… Demi-temps, a half-beat… Demi-ton, a semitone.
27Demiquaver. A 16th-note… Demise-miquaver, a 32nd-note… Demitone, rare for Semitone.
28Demoiselle (Fr.) Tracker.
29Dependent chord, harmony, triad. One which is dissonant, requiring resolution to a consonant one; opp. to Independent.
30Depress. To lower (as by a b or bb)… Depression, chromatic lowering of a tone.
31Derivative. 1. Same as derivative chord, i. e. the inversion of a fundamental chord.—2. The root of a chord.
32Dérivé(e) (Fr., "derived, derivative".) Accord dérivé, inverted chord (also simply dérivé, an inversion)… Mesure
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