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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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1a finger or by a lever operated by a finger, thus changing the pitch.
3Fingering. (Ger. Fingersatz, Applikatur'; Fr. doigter; It. diteggiatura.) 1. The method of applying the fingers to the keys, holes, strings, etc., of mus. instr.s.—2. The marks guiding the performer in placing his fingers…English (or American?) fingering (for the pfte.), that in which notes taken by the thumb are marked x (or +) with 1 2 3 4 for the fingers; German (or continental) fingering, that in which the thumb is marked 1, and the fingers 2 3 4 5. (An earlier German system resembled the English, merely using a o instead of the x for the thumb.)
5Fini're il tuono. See Messa di voce.
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8Fini'to (It.) Finished.
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11Fi'no (It.) Till, up to, as far as.
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14Fin'to,-a (It.) Feigned…Caden'za fin-ta, deceptive cadence…Fa finto, see Fa feint.
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17Fiochet'to (It.) Somewhat hoarse; faint, veiled…Fiochez'za, hoarseness…Fio'co,-a, hoarse, faint, veiled.
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20Fioreggia're (It.) To figurate.
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23Fioret'to (It.) Any melodic embellishment.
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26Fiori'to (It.) Florid, embellished…Fioritu'ra, an embellishment, an ornamental turn, flourish, or phrase introduced into a melody (commonly used in pl., floritura).
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29First. 1. Of voices or instr.s of the same class, the highest; e. g. first soprano, first violin.—2. In the staff, the lowest; as first line, first space.—3. The first string of an instr. is the highest.—4. As the name of an interval, the prime or unison.
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32Fis (Ger.) F#…Fis'is, F x.
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35Fis'telstimme (Ger.) Falsetto. (Also Fistel.)
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38Fis'tula (Lat.) Pipe.
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41Fistulie'ren (Ger.) 1. To sing falsetto.—2. Of an organ-pipe, to overblow in such wise as to sound (unintentionally) some harmonic tone instead of the fundamental.
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44Fixed Do. The fixed-Do system of solmisation is that in which the tone C, and all its chromatic derivatives (C#, C x, and Cb, Cbb) are called Do, D and its derivatives Re, etc., in whatever key or harmony they may appear; the syllables are then termed fixed syllables…Fixed-tone instr., (or instr. of fixed intonation), one (like the pfte. or organ) the pitch of whose tones cannot be modified at the player's pleasure like, for example, the tones of the violin.
46Flag. 1. A hook (¶).—2. Abbr. for flageolet (-tones).
48Flageolet. 1. (Ger. Flageolett'; Fr. flageolet; It. flagiolet'ta.) A modernized flute à bec, a small wind-instr. of the whistle family. There are 2 species still in use, the English and the French; the latter is the more complicated, having 4 holes above and 2 below, various auxiliary keys, and a compass of 2 octaves and 3 semi-tones, 8va used in the orchestra…D o u b l e flageolet, an instr. inv. by Bainbridge about 1800, consisting of 2 flageolets of different size placed side by side and having a common mouthpiece; simple duets could be played on it, but it is no longer in use…Flageolet-tones, see Harmonic 2.—2. A small flute-stop in the organ, of 1 or 2-foot pitch.
50Flageolett' (Ger.) 1. Flageolet.—2. General term for the harmonics (Flageolet'töne) produced on the violin, etc.
52Flaschinet' (Ger.) Obs. spelling of Flageolett.
54Flat. (Ger. Be; Fr. bémol; It. bemol'le.) The character b, which lowers the pitch of a note before which it is set by a semitone, and, when set in the signature, has a like effect on notes occurring on its line or space (and every octave of such line or space) unless cancelled.—Some earlier composers used the b instead of a whenever a note was to be lowered by a semitone.—The double flat bb lowers a note by 2 chromatic semitones; for it the great flat b was sometimes written…Flat fifth, a diminished fifth…Flat tuning, a method of tuning the lute (also called French flat tuning, by reason of the comparative lowness of the earlier French pitch).
56Flatter la corde (Fr.) "To caress the string." i. e. to play (on bow-instr.s) with graceful and tender expression.
58Flautan'do, Flauta'to (It.) A direction in music for the violin, etc., to play near the fingerboard, and thus to pro-
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