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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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1music suitable for performance in a room or small hall; opp. to concert-music, church-music, operatic music, etc.; ordinarily applied to quartets and similar concerted pieces for solo instr.s.
3Chamber-organ. A cabinet organ.
5Change. 1. In harmony, see Modulation.—2. In the voice, see Mutation.—3. Any melodic phrase or figure executed on a chime of bells.
7Changer de jeu (Fr.) To change the stops of an organ, etc.
9Change-ringing. The art and practice of ringing a peal of bells in varying and systematic order.
11Changing-chord. A chord containing a number of tones ("changing-notes") dissonant to the bass, and entering on the strong beat…Changing-note. (Ger. Wech'selnote, Durch'gangston, durch'-gehende Note; Fr. note d'appogiature; It. nota cambia'ta.) A dissonant note (tone) entering on the strong beat and generally progressing by a step to a consonance within the same chord; sometimes by a skip to a chord-note or note belonging to another chord.—A passing-note differs from a changing-note by entering on a weak beat.
13Chanson (Fr.) A song; originally, a ballad-like song; now rather a vocal solo (Lied) with pfte.-accomp…Chansonnette, a short chanson. (Canzonet.)
15Chansonnier (Fr.) 1. A composer of songs.—2. A book or collection of songs.
17Chant. 1. A Gregorian melody repeated with the several verses of a prose text, a number of syllables being intoned on each reciting-note; its 5 divisions are: (1) the intonation; (2) the first dominant, or reciting-note; (3) the mediation; (4) the second dominant or reciting-note; (5) the cadence.—2. A melody similar in style to the above, and non-rhythmical; a tone; called cantus firmus in contrapuntal composition.—3. The so-called Anglican chant, that employed in chanting the canticles and Psalms; it consists of 7 measures, harmonized, the time-value of the single note constituting the first and fourth measures being expanded or contracted to fit the words, whereas the others are sung in strict time. It has 2 divisions of 3 and 4 measures respectively, each commencing on a reciting-note and ending with a cadence; the first cadence is called the mediation, and the arrangement of the words to the music is called pointing. Any short piece of like character is also called a chant…Double chant, one twice as long as the usual chant, having 14 measures, 4 reciting-notes, and 4 cadences…Changeable chant, one that can be sung either in major or minor…Free chant, one having but 2 chords to each half-verse, for the declamatory singing of the canticles, etc.
19Chant (Fr.) Song; singing; melody, tune; voice (i.e. vocal part in contradistinction to the accomp.)…Ch. composé, plain song…Ch. d'église (or grégorien), Gregorian chant…Ch. en ison, or ch. égal, a chant sung on only 2 tones, thus having but one interval…Ch. figuré, figurate counterpoint…Ch. royal, mode (ton) in which the prayer for the sovereign is chanted…Ch. sur le livre, an extemporized counterpoint sung by one body of singers to the plain-song melody (a cantus firmus) sung by the others.
21Chanter. The melody-pipe of the bagpipe.
23Chanter (Fr.) To sing…Ch. à livre ouvert, to sing at sight.
25Chanterelle (Fr.) The highest string of an instr. belonging to the violin or lute family, especially the E-string of the violin; the soprano string.
27Chanteur (Fr.) A male singer…Chanteuse, a female singer.
29Chantonner (Fr.) Same as Canterellare.
31Chantre (Fr.) Leader of a choir…Grand ch., precentor, cantor…Second ch., choir-singer, chorister, choir-boy.
33Chapeau (Fr.) A tie — (usually liaisson)…Ch. chinois, a crescent.
35Chapel. A company of musicians attached to the establishment of any distinguished personage. (See Kapelle.)
37Character, individual, of the several keys.—Theoretically, each major or minor key is precisely like every other major or minor key, the intervals in all being precisely similar. Practically, there subsist recognized differences, due (1) to the system of equal temperament as applied to instruments with keyboard or frets, and (2) to a more or less perceptible tendency towards "forcing up" the sharp keys (thus lending them a brighter and intenser character), and towards "letting down" or relax-
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