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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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1soon, which is a bombard with the tube doubled upon itself, and thus shortened by half. 'The bombardone or contrabombard (Ger. Bass'bomhart) was the deepest, followed by the bass bombard (Bomhart), the tenor or basset-bombard (Bassett'bomhart), and the alto or bombard'do pic'colo.
3Bombarde (Fr.) 1. Bombard.—2. Posaune 2.
5Bombar'don. 1. A large instr. of the trumpet family, used as a bass in military music, and belonging, in its modern forms, to the saxhorn group; the usual sizes are in B♭, F, C, and contra-B♭; but the bombardon proper, old model, is in F, having 3 valves and a compass from contra-F to d1: 8va
6It is non-transposing.—2. The bass of the saxhorns.—3. A deep-toned reed-stop in the organ.
8Bom'bo (It.) A figure in repeated notes.
10Bom'byx (Gk.) An ancient Greek wind-instr., presumably with a reed.
12Bon (Fr.) Good…Bon temps de la mesure, strong beat.
14Bonang. A Javanese instr. consisting of gongs mounted on a frame.
16Bones. A set of 4 pieces of bone, wood, or ivory, held pairwise between the fingers, and used to mark time as a rattling accompaniment to a dance, song, or instrumental performance.
18Book. 1. (Ger. Heft; Fr. cahier; It. li'bro.) A part of a series of songs, exercises, etc., under a separate paper cover.—2. The words (libretto) of an opera, oratorio, etc.
20Boot. The foot of a reed-pipe (organ).
22Bordun' (Ger.) Bourdon. (The 2 free strings on either side of the fingerboard of the hurdy-gurdy, that kept up a continual humming, were called Bordune; bordunus occurs as the name of the bass strings stretched beside the fingerboard of the ancient viella.)
24Bouche (Fr.) Mouth; à bouche fermée, with closed mouth (comp. Brumm-stimmen).
26Bouché(e) (Fr.) Muted (of wind-instr.s); stopped (of organ-pipes).
28Bouffe (Fr.) Same as Buffo…Opéra bouffe, comic opera.
30Bourdon. (Fr.) 1. A drone bass.—2. An organ-stop of 16 or 32-foot pitch, having stopped wooden pipes, sometimes with metallic tops; tone usually hollow or "fluty," i.e. deficient in harmonics. The French also have open bourdons of 8 and 4-foot pitch (bourdons de huit, de quatre ouverts).—3. In French usage, the lowest string of the 'cello and double-bass;—also, a great bell, as the bourdon of Notre-Dame…Faux-bourdon, see Faburden.
32Bourrée (Fr.) 1. A dance of either French or Spanish origin, from Auvergne or Biscaya, in rapid tempo, consisting of 2 parts of 8 measures each and in 4-4 or 2-4 time.—2. A movement in the earlier Suites, in alla breve time.
34Boutade (Fr.) 1. A short ballet performed, as it were, impromptu.—2. An instrumental impromptu or fantasia.—3. An old French spectacular dance.
36Bow. (Ger. Bo'gen; Fr. archet; It. ar'co.) An implement originally curved outward, though now slightly inward, consisting of an elastic wooden rod (the stick), and of from 175 to 250 horse-hairs [GROVE] (the hair) attached to the bent point or head, and drawn into proper tension by the sliding nut, which is actuated by the screw. (Schuster & Otto, Markneukirchen, have recently [1893] manufactured bows with fine gut threads in lieu of hairs.) After rubbing the hair with rosin, the bow is drawn across the strings (of the violin, bow-zither, etc.), setting them in vibration; the vibration is communicated to the resonance-box, which latter reinforces the weak tone of the strings…Bow-arm or -hand, the right arm or hand…Bow-guitar (It. chitar'ra coll' arco), a species of violin with a guitar-shaped body…Bow-clavier, Bow-harpsichord, see Piano-violin…Bow-instrument, one played with the aid of a bow, as the violin or bow-zither…Bow-zither, see Zither.
38Bow (verb.) 1. To execute with a bow.—2. To mark (a passage or piece) with signs indicating the bowing.
40Bowing. 1. (Ger. Bo'genführung.) The art of handling the bow; the style or method of a player,—"his bowing as shown in his management of the bow."—2. (Ger. Strich'art.) The method of, and signs for, executing any given passage; "the bowing of the passage."
42Boyau (Fr.) Gut; hence, gut string.
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