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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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1Ab'geleitet (Ger.) Derived, derivative.
2Ab'gesang (Ger.) See Strophe.
3Ab'gestossen (Ger.) Detached, staccato.
4Ab'gleiten (Ger.) To slip or slide any finger, on the keyboard, from a black digital to the next white one.
5Ab'hub, abub. Hebrew wind-instr. resembling the cornet.
6Ab ini'tio (Lat.) Same as Da capo.
7Ab'kürzung (Ger.) Abbreviation.
8Ab'leiten (Ger.) To derive from.
9Ab'lösen (Ger.) To change fingers quietly on a digital of the pfte. or organ.
10Ab'nehmen, Ab'nehmung (Ger.) Diminuendo.
11Abrégés (Fr.) Trackers.
12Ab'reichen (Ger.) In violin-playing, to take a tone by extending the little finger (see Extension), or by drawing back the forefinger.
13Ab'reissung (Ger.) See Abruptio.
14Abrup'tio (Lat. "a breaking-off.") The sudden stopping of a melody before reaching the actual close, it being continued after a pause.
15Ab'satz (Ger.) 1. A thematically or rhythmically well-defined division of a piece or movement. — 2. A melodic phrase.
16Ab'schwellen (Ger.) Decrescendo.
17Ab'setzen (Ger., "to lift from ".) To strike two digitals in succession with the same finger, to lift; e.g.
19Absolute Music. In contradistinction to "program-music," which is supposed or intended to express (depict, portray) something tangible, absolute music subsists in and for itself, without being in any way derived from concrete conditions or objects. Program-music seeks its inspiration in poetry, in art, in living realities; absolute music is itself the inspiration, awakening emotion through emotion without the interposition of or definite interpretation by the intellect, infecting and influencing the soul directly…Absolute Pitch, see Pitch.
20Ab'stammen (Ger.) To be derived from.
21Ab'stand (Ger.) See Tonabstand.
22Ab'stimmen (Ger.) 1. To tune.—2. To lower the pitch (of instr s)…Ab'stimmend, Ab'stimmig, discordant, dissonant.
24Ab'stossen (Ger.) To play staccato, to detach…Ab'stosszeichen, staccato-mark.
25Abstrak'ten (Ger.) Trackers.
26Ab'stufung (Ger., "graduation.") The shading of a passage or piece, either emotionally or dynamically.
27Abun'dans (Lat.) Superfluous.
28Ab'wechseln (Ger.) To alternate; mit ab'wechselnden Manua'len, with alternating manuals.
29Ab'weichung (Ger.) A variant; a different reading or notation; specifically, the measure or measures marked secunda volta in a repeat.
30Ab'ziehen (Ger.) 1. See Abgleiten.—2. To unstring (in the sense of taking off worn-out strings) a violin, harp, etc.
31Ab'zug (Ger.) 1. See Abgleiten.—2. The lifting of the fingers in playing wind-instr.s, or of the bow from the strings.
32Acathis'tus (Gk.) In the Gk. Church, a long canon or hymn in praise of the Virgin, sung by all standing.
33Accarezze'vole { (It.) Caressful-
34Accarezzevolmen'te } ly, caressingly, coaxingly.
35Acceleran'do (It.) "Accelerating," gradually growing faster…Accelera'to, accelerated, livelier.
36Accent. (Ger. Accent', Beto'nung; Fr. accent; It. accen'to.) 1. The natural stress or emphasis regularly recurring on certain tones in each measure, called the grammatical, metrical, or regular accent; e.g. that on the first beat in every species of time
38(primary accent), and on the third beat in triple or compound duple time
40(sub-accent).—2. The monotony of the regular accent is varied by the rhythmical accent, which brings out more prominently the broader musical divisions of a composition by special emphasis at the entrance or culminating points of motives, themes, phrases, passages, sections, etc.; the rhythmical a. is nearly synonymous with the pathetic or poetic a., as an aid in interpreting the meaning and making plain the construction of a work.—3. An ir-
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