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American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1dolcezza
2dolcezza (dōl-chēt'-tsā) It. n.
3Sweetness; softness; con dolcezza, softly, sweetly, gently.
4Dolcian (dōl'-tsī-ān) Ger. n.
5dolciana (dōl-chī-ā'-nā) It. n.
61. An instrument of the fagotto or bassoon type, having a milder tone than the ordinary bassoon in use in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
72. An organ reed stop of eight or ten foot pitch, that is so tuned as to produce as its lowest tone one, two or three octaves below middle C. The same as dulciana.
8dolciato (dōl-chā'-tō) It. adj.
9Softened; made milder.
10dolcimello (dōl-chī-měl'-lō) It. n.
11The dulcimer: a stringed instrument found in various forms among most of the ancient nations; consisting primarily of a wooden frame and a sounding-box over which strings were stretched and played by striking with hammers or mallets.
12dolcino (dōl-chē'-no) It. n.
131. An instrument of the fagotto or bassoon type in use during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, with a milder tone than the ordinary bassoon.
142. An organ reed stop of eight or sixteen foot pitch.
15dolcissimo (dōl-chīs'-sī-mō) It. adj.
16Exceedingly sweet and soft. Abbr. dolcis.
17dolement (dō-lěm-māñ') Fr. adv.
18Dolefully, plaintively.
19dolendo (dō-lěn'-dō) It. adj.
20Doleful, mournful.
21dolentemente (dō-lěn-tě-měn'-tě) It. adv.
22Dolefully, sorrowfully.
23dolorosamente (dō-lō-rō-sā-měn'-tě) It. adv.
24Mournfully, pathetically.
25doloroso (dō-lō-rō'-sō) It. adj.
26Sad, mournful.
27Dolzflöte (dōlts'-flā-tě) Ger. n.
281. An obsolete German flute with a plugged mouthpiece.
292. In the organ, an open flute stop whose lowest tone is C, two octaves below middle C.
30Domchor (dōm'-kōr) Ger. n.
31A cathedral choir.
32dominant
331. The fifth note, or degree, of any major or minor scale, counting upward from the keynote; also, the related key having the dominant as its keynote: e.g., the note G is the dominant in the scale of C, and the key of G, as related to the key of C, is the key of the dominant; which is so called because, to ascertain the key of a passage, some chord must have this note for its root, or foundation note. The dominant is second in importance only to the tonic, or keynote; and the chord of the dominant seventh, based upon this tone as its root, ordinarily determines the key of the passage in which this chord occurs. It is of especial importance in the formation of cadences, because here the keynote must be clearly marked; and its tendency to dominate the other notes in the common chord is so strong that writers for orchestra make it a point to assign other notes in that chord to more of the instruments than they give the dominant. In fugues, when the subject begins with the keynote the answer begins with the dominant, and the reverse. In the sonata, the second subject formerly began with the dominant in almost every instance; and this alteration of keynote with dominant is noticeable in many other kinds of musical composition.
342. In the Gregorian modes, the note on which the chant or recitative is sung. The Gregorian chant was divided into five parts: the intonation, the first reciting note or dominant, the mediation, the second reciting note or dominant and the ending. Every verse of a canticle began with an intonation, but only the first verse of a psalm. The remainder was divided so that all the rest was recited on the dominants except as much as would have one syllable to each note of the mediation and ending.
35dominant chord
36A three-tone chord built on the dominant or fifth note of the scale; also, the chord of the seventh, or four-tone chord, built on the dominant, and consisting of that as its first note, plus other notes at intervals of a third, a fifth and a seventh.
37dominant harmony
38Harmony based on the dominant, or fifth note of the scale.
39dominant section
40A section of a movement written in the key built on the dominant or fifth note of the scale placed between two other sections in the key built on the tonic or first note.
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