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A dictionary of musical terms, 1907
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1rection in organ-playing), draw all stops of the choir-organ…Full chord, one represented by all its tones; also (in concerted music), one in which all the parts unite…Full Great (in organ-playing), draw all stops of great organ…Full orchestra, see Full band…Full organ, with all stops and couplers drawn…Full score, see Score…Full stop (in lute-playing), a full chord followed by a pause; also, a chord in which all available fingers are occupied in stopping the strings…Full Swell (organ), draw all stops of swell-organ…Full to fifteenth (in organ-playing), draw all stops but mixtures and reeds.
3Füll'pfeife (Ger.) A dummy pipe…Füll'quinte, a very sharp-toned organ-stop of 5 1/2-foot pitch, to be drawn only with a strong combination of foundation-stops…Füll'stelle, a passage put in to "fill out"; padding…Füll'stimme, (a) a part reinforcing a principal part at the octave or unison; (b) a mutation-stop a third or a fifth above the normal pitch; (c) pl., in polyphonic composition, accessory parts not treated melodically like the principal parts, but brought in occasionally to complete the harmony or mark the rhythm.
5Fundamental. 1. The root of a chord.—2. A generator (in this sense also fundamental bass, note and tone)…Fund. chord, triad, see Chord, Triad…Fund. position, any arrangement of the tones of a chord in which the root remains the lowest.
7Fundamental'bass (Ger.) Fundamental bass…Fundamental'ton, root; keynote, tonic (Grund'ton, To'niko).
9Funèbre (Fr.), Fune'bre, Funera'le (It.) Funereal, mournful.
11Fünf'fach (Ger.) See -fach…Fünf'-stimmig, 5-part; for 5 parts or voices…Fünf'stufige Ton'leiter, pentatonic scale.
13Fu'o'co [foo-ô'-co] (It.) Fire, spirit; con f., or fuoco'so, with fire, fiery, spirited.
15Fu'ria (It.) Fury, passion; con f., wildly, passionately.
17Furiant, Furie. A rapid Bohemian dance with alternating rhythms and changing accentuation.
19Furibon'do (It.) Furious, frenzied.
21Furio'so,-a (It.) Furious, passionate; furiosamen'te, passionately; furiosis'simo, with extreme passion.
23Furla'na (It.) See Forlana.
25Furniture-stop. A mixture-stop.
27Furo're (It.) A rage, mania, passionate fondness (for anything)…Also, fury, passion, vehemence; con f., passionately.
29Fu'sa (Lat.), Fuse (Fr.) An eighth note, or quaver.
31Fusée (Fr.) An ornament consisting of a rapid ascending or descending diatonic series of notes; a slide.
33Fusel (Ger.) Same as Fusa.
35Fusel'l'a (Lat.) 32nd-note…Fusel'lala, 64th-note.
37Fuss (Ger.) Foot; -füssig, the adjective-ending corresponding to -foot, as 8'füssig (acht'füssig), 8-foot…Fuss'klavier, pedals (of an organ)…Fuss'ton, equivalent to "-foot pitch", e.g. an organ-pipe of 4-foot pitch is said to be of 4-Fusston.
39Füt'terung (Ger.) Linings (of a violin).
41G.
43G. The fifth tone and degree in the typical diatonic scale of C-major…G. abbr. for gauche (m.g. = main gauche); G. O. (or simply G), grand-orgue.
45Ga'belklavier (Ger.) A keyboard instr. inv. in 1882 by Fischer and Fritzsch of Leipzig, in which steel tuning-forks are substituted for strings. The somewhat dull timbre, due to the lack of harmonics, has been brightened by adding, for each key, a second fork tuned an octave higher than the first…Ga'belton, "fork-tone," i.e. the tone a1 pitched for tuning…Ga'belgriffe (pl.), cross-fingerings.—See Stimmgabel.
47Gagliar'da (It.), Gagliar'de (Ger.) A galliard.
49Gai (Fr.) Gay, lively, brisk…Gaiement, or gaîment, gaily, briskly.
51Gaillarde (Fr.) A galliard.
53Gajamen'te (It.) Gaily, lively…Ga'jo,-a, gay.
55Ga'la (It.) In the phrase di gala, gaily, merrily.
57Galamment (Fr.), Galantemen'te (It.) Gallantly, gracefully, prettily.
59Galant' (Ger.) Free; e.g. galan'te Fu'ge, free fugue; galan'ter Stil, galan'te Schreib'art, free style, the homophonous style of composition for the clavichord or harpsichord, in vogue in
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