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American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1cherubical hymn
2Tersanctus (Holy, holy, holy), which forms the conclusion of the Preface and precedes the canon of the mass, chest of viols
3An old name for a set of viols consisting of two basses, two tenors and two trebles, each having six strings. These instruments were particularly adapted to playing fantasias.
4chest-register
5In male and female voices, the lower register or notes, the tones of which produce sympathetic vibrations in the chest.
6chest tone
7chest voice
8The lowest register or range of notes in the voice. Also a vocal tone possessing the quality of the chest-register or notes producing vibration in the chest.
9chetarrina (kē-tār-rē'-nā) It. n.
10The small Neapolitan guitar.
11chevalet (shē-vā-lā') Fr. n.
12Literally, wooden horse.
131. The bridge of a stringed instrument. A small bridge-shaped piece of wood set on the body of instruments of the violin and lute families, over which the strings pass to the head.
142. A stand for suspending a cymbal or gong.
15cheville (shē-vē'-yē) Fr. n.
16A peg, pin or bolt: in violin and similar instruments a movable wooden peg set in the head and used to tighten or loosen the tension of the strings.
17chevrotement (shē-vrō-tē-mān') Fr. adv.
18A trembling of the voice: a tremor or shake in singing.
19chevroteer (shēv-rō-tā') Fr. v.
20To sing or speak in tremulous voice: to make a bad or false trill.
21chiaramente (kē-ā-rā-měn'-tě) It. adv.
22Clearly, purely: a direction meaning to be rendered clearly, brightly and distinctly.
23chiarezza (kē-ā-rē'-tsā) It. n.
24Brightness, clearness: as used in the term, con chiarezza, meaning to be rendered with clearness, brightness.
25chiarina (kē-ā-rē'-nā) It. n.
26A clarion or trumpet. Derived from its clear, bright tone.
27chiaro (kā-ā'-rō) It. adj.
28Clear, brilliant, bright, pure in tone.
29chiaroscuro (kē-ā-rō-skoo'-rō) It. n.
30Light and shade: a term descriptive of the transitions from faint to loud in musical performance.
31chiave (kē-ā'-vē) It. n.
32A valve, a key: the key or clef, the character at the beginning of the composition which denotes the pitch in which it is written. The tuning key, an instrument used by piano-tuners in tuning the instrument. The key of an instrument.
33chiave maestro (kē-ā'-vē mā-ās'-trō) It.
34The key note or note upon which the composition is built up.
35chiavette (kē-ā-vět'-tě) It. n.
36Value key. During the Sixteenth Century it was an almost invariable rule that no vocal part should go beyond the compass of the five line staff. In representing notes above or below this composers resorted to the use of the clefs differing from those in ordinary use for the various voices, which signs really had the effect of transposing the parts to higher or lower pitch. The chiavette proper, or high chiavette, transposed the parts into a key a major third, an interval of two whole tones, or a minor third or interval of one and a half tones, higher than they were, and was really equivalent to three flats or four sharps in a signature having the usual clef. The low chiavette had the effect of three sharps or four flats over the ordinary clef.
37chica (tshē'-kā) Spa. n.
38An old Spanish dance brought to South America by the early Spanish settlers, and very popular with their descendants.
39chiesa (kē-ā'-zā) It. n.
40A church. Used as an adjective to denote music of religious character, as concerto da chiesa, in church style.
41chiffre (shēfr) Fr. n.
42Figure, number: a figure, as one of the Arabic numerals which in thorough bass stand for a note and is written above or below the bass part.
43chifladura (tchē-flā-doo'-rā) Spa. n.
44Whistling.
45chiflar (tchē-flār') Spa. v.
46To whistle.
47chifonie (shē-fō-nē') Fr. n.
48A corruption of the Old French symphonia, the old name for a hurdy-gurdy, an instrument composed of four strings and played by a wheel rubbed in rosin. Two of the strings were stopped by certain keys and the others acted as a drone bass, or bass having no variation of tone.
49chime
501. A set of bells varying in number, tuned to the scale and played by
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