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American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1faible
2faible (fēb-l) Fr. adj.
3 Weak; light.
4faiblement (fēb-l-māñ') Fr. adv.
5 Feebly; weakly.
6faire (fār) Fr. v.
7 To do; to make; to execute.
8faire chorus (fār kō-rūs) Fr.
9 To join in the chorus.
10faire des arpeggements (fār dā-zār-pēzh-māñ') Fr.
11 To execute arpeggios.
12faire retentir (fār rū-tē-nēr') Fr.
13 To resound, to echo.
14faites bien sentir la mélodie (fēt bē-ān sāñ-tēr lā mā-lō-dē') Fr.
15 Literally, make the melody well marked: play the melody very distinctly.
16Faktur (fāk-toor') Ger. n.
17 1. The construction or workmanship of a composition.
18 2. The scale or diameter of organ pipes. Equivalent to facture (Fr.).
19fall
20 1. See cadence.
21 2. A lowering of the voice.
22falling rhythm
23 Descending rhythm.
24falotico (fā-lō'-tē-kō) It. adj.
25 Extravagant.
26falsa (fāl'-sā) It. adj.
27 Equivalent to falsch (Ger.).
28falsa, nota (nō'-tā fāl'-sā) It.
29 Literally, false or counterfeit note; a changing note; a grace note.
30falsch (fālsh) Ger. adj.
31 False; wrong; inharmonious.
32false accent
33 The accent removed from the proper beat.
34false cadence
35 A closing strain which does not produce the effect of completeness. Same as imperfect or flying cadence.
36false chords
37 Chords that do not contain all the intervals belonging to them, that is, chords some of whose tones are omitted.
38false fifth
39 A fifth is an interval of three whole tones and one semitone. If this interval be narrowed a semitone by raising the lower or lowering the upper tone a half step, the result is a false fifth. Also called diminished, imperfect, flat, minor, or defective fifth.
40false harmony
41 Harmony not based upon established rules. See also harmony, false.
42false intonation
43 Incorrect intonation, the tones not true to the key.
44fandango
45false relation
46 When a note sounded by one voice is simultaneously or successively sounded by another voice, but altered by a sharp, flat or natural; or, in chords which are so near together that the effect of one note, chromatically changed, that is, a semitone flattened or sharpened, reappears immediately after in another part, it is a false relation.
47false string
48 A string made so poorly that it gives a bad tone.
49false triad
50 A triad is a common chord consisting of three tones: (a) the fundamental note or note upon which the chord is built; (b) a note which is a third or two tones of the natural scale above the fundamental; (c) a note which is a fifth or three tones and a semitone above the fundamental note. If this last tone be narrowed by raising the lower tone or lowering the upper tone a half step, making of it a false fifth, the three resulting tones form what is called a false or diminished triad.
51Falsett (fāl-zēt') Ger. n.
52falsetto (fāl-sēt'-tō) It. n.
53 1. The head voice distinguished from the chest voice; that part of a person's voice that lies above its natural compass; so called because it sounds unnatural and forced in its untrained state and because at its best it is not easily managed.
54 2. A singer who uses this register almost exclusively is the male alto. It is much more obvious in a male voice than in a female. Abbr. falset.
55falso (fāl-sō) It. adj.
56 False; wrong.
57falso bordone (fāl'-sō bōr-dō'-nē) It.
58 1. Faburden originally signified a drone, hence used in the connection, a drone bass as a bagpipe.
59 2. A melodic part at intervals of thirds (four half steps) or sixths (nine half steps) added by ear to a given part called cantus firmus, that is, a theme or air which remains the same as the different voices take it.
60 3. Intonation of psalms.
61 4. The reciting note, or the note upon which the voice dwells until it comes to a cadence.
62fandango (fān-dān'-gō) Spa.
63 The national Spanish dance, which originated in the early part of the Eighteenth Century. The notes of
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