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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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1The tone is powerful and mellow.—2. The modern Lur, of Norway and Sweden, is usually made of birch bark, and is allied to the Swiss alp-horn.
3Lusingan’do, Lusingan’te (It.) Coaxing, caressing; also lusinghe’vole… Lusinghevolmen’te, coaxingly, etc… Lusinghe’re, or -o, coaxing, flattering, seductive.
5Lus’tig (Ger.) Merry, gay (also adverb).
7Lute. (Ger. Lau’te; Fr. luth; It. liu’to.) A stringed instr., now obsolete, of very ancient origin; it was brought to Europe by the Moors, who called it Al’ud or Al Oud… The body has no ribs, the back being, like that of the mandolin, in the vaulted shape of half a pear. The strings, attached to a bridge fixed on the face of the instr., and passing over or beside the fretted fingerboard, were plucked by the fingers, and varied in number from 6 up to 13, the highest or melody-string (treble, canto) being single, and the others in pairs of unisons. Bass strings off the fingerboard, each yielding but one tone, were generally attached to a second neck; they were in later times covered with silver wire, the other strings being of gut. These bass strings were introduced in the 16th century, and led to divers modifications in the build of the instr.; the various forms of large doubled-necked lutes then evolved (theorbo, archiliuto, chitarrone) being general favorites, and holding, from the 15th to the 17th century, the place in the orchestra now occupied by the bass violins. Music for the lute was written in tablature, there being 3 systems (French, Italian, and German)… A lute-player is variously called a lutenist, lutanist, lutinist, and lutist.
9Luth (Fr.) Lute…Lutherie, the trade of, and also the instr.s made by, a luthier…Luthier, formerly, a lute-maker; now, a maker of any instr. of the lute or violin class.
11Lutto’so (It.) Mournful, plaintive… Luttuosamen’te, mournfully, etc.
13Lyd’ian. (Ger. ly’disch.) See Mode.
15Lyre. 1. (Gk. and Lat. ly’ra; It. li’ra; Fr. lyre; Ger. Lei’er.) A stringed instr. of the ancient Greeks, of Egyptian or Asiatic origin. The frame consisted of a soundboard or resonance-box, from which rose 2 curving arms joined above by a cross-bar; the strings, from 3 to 10 in number, were stretched from this cross-bar to or over a bridge set upon the soundboard, and were plucked with a plectrum. The names of the strings (whence were derived the names of most of the tones in the Greek modes) on the 8-stringed lyre were as follows:
17Hyp’ate, “uppermost” (as the lyre was held); the longest and deepest-toned.
18Parhyp’ate, “next to hypate”.
19Lich’anos, “forefinger-string”.
20Me’se, “middle string”.
21Parame’se, “next to Mese”.
22Tri’te, “third string” (from the lower side).
23Parane’te, “next to the last”.
24Ne’te, “last,” or “lowermost” (the highest in pitch).
26The Kithara may be considered as a large form of the lyre, the Chelys as a treble lyre.—The lyre differed from the harp in having fewer strings, and from the guitar, lute, etc., in having no fingerboard; its compass and accordatura varied greatly. It was chiefly used to accompany songs and recitations.—2. An instr. used in military bands, consisting of loosely suspended steel bars tuned to the tones of the scale and struck with a hammer.—3. See Rebec.
28Lyric, lyrical. Pertaining to or proper for the lyre, or for accompaniment on (by) the lyre; hence, adapted for singing or for expression in song.—The term is applied to music and songs (or poems) expressing subjective emotion or special moods, in contradistinction to epic (narrative), and dramatic (scenic, accompanied by action)…Lyric drama, the opera…Lyric opera, one in which the expression of subjective feeling, and the lyric form of poetry, predominate…Lyric stage, the operatic stage.
30M.
32M. Abbr. of It. mano, and Fr. main, (hand); in organ-music, of manual (usually Man.), and Lat. manua’liter; and of metronome (usually M. M.) and mezzo…m represents the note me (mi) in Tonic Sol-fa notation.
34Ma (It.) But; as in the phrase vivace, ma non troppo, lively, but not too much so.
36Machête. A small Portuguese guitar (octave-guitar), having 4 strings tuned:
38or sometimes d² instead of e².
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