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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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1Componi'sta (It.) Composer.
2Composition pedal. In the organ, a pedal which draws out or pushes in several stops at once. (Comp. combination pedal.)
3Composizio'ne (It.) Composition… C. di tavoli'no, table-music.
4Compound interval. See Interval… C. measure, rhythm, time, see Time… C. stop, an organ-stop having more than one rank of pipes.
5Con (It.) With.
6Concave pedals. See Radiating.
7Concen'to (It.) 1. Concord, harmony. —2. The simultaneous sounding of all the tones of a chord; opp. to arpeggio.
8Concen'tus (Lat.) 1. Concord, harmony.—2. Part-music.—3. See Accentus.
9Con'cert. 1. A set of instr.s of the same family but different in size (see Chest, Consort).—2. A concerto.—3. (Ger. Konzert'; Fr. concert; It. concer'to.) A public mus. performance… Dutch concert, the singing of an entire company in which each person sings whatever he pleases; or the persons present sing in alternation any verse that comes into their heads, the refrain by the whole company being a regular repetition of some popular verse… Concert spirituel (Fr.), sacred concert.
10Concertan'te (It.) Concordant, harmonious.—Hence: 1. A concert-piece.—2. A composition for two or more solo voices or instr.s with accomp. by organ or orchestra, in which each solo part is in turn brought into prominence.—3. A composition for 2 or more solo instr.s without orchestra… Concertante parts, parts for solo instr.s in orchestral music… Concertante style, a style of composition admitting of a brilliant display of skill on the soloist's part… Concerta'to, concerted.
11Concerted music. Music written in parts for several instr.s or voices, as trios, quartets, etc.
12Concert-grand. See Pianoforte.
13Concerti'na. The improved accordion inv. by Wheatstone in 1829. The keyboards are hexagonal; the compass of the treble c. is 4 octaves: including all chromatic tones; it is 8va a double-action instr., producing the same tone on drawing out and on pushing in the bellows. Tenor, bass, and double-bass concertinas are also made. A great variety of music can be played, and the literature is quite extensive; the instr. is likewise capable of great expression, and the tone is susceptible of considerable modification.
14Concerti'no (It.) 1. A small concert.—2. Equiv. to concertan'te, i.e. leading, principal; as violino concertino, principal violin;—here opp. to ripie'no.
15Concerti'sta (It.) Concert-player, solo performer, virtuoso.
16Concert-master. See Konzert'meister.
17Concer'to. (Ger. Konzert'.) An extended composition for a solo instr., commonly with orchestral accomp., in sonata-form modified to suit the character of the solo instr. (e.g. the cadenza); pfte.-concertos in which the pfte.-part is comparatively inconspicuous are jocularly called "symphonies with pfte.-accomp."—The earlier concertos were in concertante style, 2 or more instr.s or voices bearing leading parts; Viadana's concer'ti ecclesia'stici, or da chie'sa, were simply motets with organ-accomp.; Torelli was the first (1686) to write concerti da ca'mera (for 2 violins and double-bass).
18Concert-pitch. See Pitch.
19Concert'stück (Ger.) A concert-piece; a concerto.
20Concita'to (It.) Moved, excited, agitated.
21Concord. 1. Harmony; opp. to dis-cord.—2. See Consonance.
22Concor'dant. 1. Consonant—2. (Fr.) A barytone voice.
23Conductor. (Ger. Kapell'meister, Dirigent'; Fr. chef d'orchestre; It. capo d'orchestra, mae'stro di cappel'la.) The director of an orchestra or chorus.
24Conduc'tus (Lat.) A form of polypho-nous composition (12th century) in which the tenor to the contrapuntal variations was not borrowed from plain song (as in the or'ganum and discan'tus), but, like the counterpoint, was original with the composer… C. du'plex, 3-part counterpoint; C. sim'plex, 2-part counterpoint.
25Conduit (Fr.) 1. Conductus.—2. A wind-trunk (organ).
26Cone-gamba. Bell-gamba.
27Conjunct'. (Fr. conjoint; It. congiun'to.) A degree of the scale immediately
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