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A dictionary of musical terms : containing upwards of 9,000 English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek words and phrases … with a supplement containing an English-Italian vocabulary for composers, 1904
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1syllable; a division or run.—2. A section of the orchestra, or of an orchestral score, embracing instr.s of one class, e. g. the strings.
3Groupe (Fr.) 1. Group; specifically, a group of notes with their hooks slurred together; a turn.—2. A unison 2.
5Grund (Ger.) Ground, foundation, fundament… Grund'akkord, a chord in the fundamental position… Grund'bass, fundamental bass… Grund'lage, fundamental position (of a chord)… Grund'stimme, (a) see Grundbass; (b) a bass part; (c) foundation-stop (organ)… Grund'ton, (a) root; (b) key-note… Grund'tonart, ruling or principal key in a composition.
7Gruppet'to (It.) Formerly, a trill or relish; in modern music, a turn.—Also, a collective term applied loosely to various "groups" of grace-notes, such as:
9etc.
11Grup'po (It.) Group; also, a turn.—Formerly, a grace similar to the trill. (See Trillo.)
13G'-Schlüssel (Ger.) G-clef.
15Guara'cha (Span.) A lively Spanish dance, one part of which is in 3-4 or 3-8 time and the other in 2-4 time; usually accompanied on the guitar by the dancer himself.
17Gue. An instr. of the violin kind, having only 2 strings (of horsehair), and played like a 'cello; formerly used in Shetland. [CENTURY DICT.]
19Guerrie'ro (It.) Martial, warlike.
21Gui'da (It.) 1. Subject (of a fugue); antecedent (in a canon or other imitation).—2. A direct.—3. See Presa.—4. In solfeggio, a tone or tones through which the voice glides from one interval-tone to the other.
23Guide. 1. Guida 1 and 2.—2. (Fr.) Guida 1 and 4…Guide-main, "hand-guide," chiroplast.
25Guidon (Fr.) A direct.
27Guido'nian hand. The Guidonian Hand was a diagram, for memorizing the solmisation-syllables of the 20-tone diatonic scale (Γ to ee), in the shape of an outstretched left hand with the syllables written in regular order on the successive finger-tips and joints. The syllables were called the Aretinian or Guidonian syllables. (See Solmisation.)
29Guimbard. (Fr. guimbarde.) A jew's-harp.
31Guitar'. (Span. guitar'ra; Ger. Guitar're; Fr. guitare; It. chitar'ra.) An instr. of the lute family. The modern ("Spanish") guitar has six strings, the 3 highest of gut, the 3 lowest of silk covered with fine silver wire, tuned E-A-d-g-b-e¹:
33(or E-B-e-g#-b-e¹); but guitar-music is written an octave higher, in the G-clef. The pitch of all 6 strings can be raised a semitone by using the capotasto. Compass (with the 3 octaves harmonics, and a fourth: an octave more). The long fingerboard is furnished with frets on which the strings are stopped with the left hand, while the right plucks the strings with the fingertips (the thumb taking the 3 lowest, the forefinger g, the middle finger b, and the ring-finger high e), or strikes them with the back of the fingers; the thumb also sweeps the strings with the arpeggio-effect called the rasgado.—The body of the guitar has a broad waist, no corners, and a flat face and back. It is used as a solo instr., and in accompanying songs.
35Guitare d'amour (Fr.), Guitar-violoncello. See Arpeggione.
37Guterne (Fr.) Former name for the guitar.
39Gu'sto (It.) Taste…Di buon g., in good taste, tasteful…Gusto'so, with taste…Gran gusto, see Gran.
41Gut. Gut strings (in the singular Ger. Darm'saite; Fr. corde à or de or en boyau; It. minu'gia), popularly known as catgut, are ordinarily manufactured from the entrails of sheep, those of young lambs yielding the evenest and finest strings because they do not have to be split. The best are the genuine Roman strings.
43Gut (Ger.) Good…Gu'ter Takt'teil, strong beat.
45H.
47H (Ger.) The note B…In scores, H is an abbr. for Horn; in organ-music, for Heel; in music for keyboard instr.s, for Hand (r. h., l. h.)
49Hack'brett (Ger.) Dulcimer.
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