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American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1barrel organ
2barrel organ
3A portable organ. A crank turned by hand revolves a wooden cylinder furnished with keys, which open a series of valves. Currents of air are in this way forced into pipes of various length and diameter and the tones produced. By mechanical devices the valves are opened in melodic and harmonic order, and the barrels or cylinders are movable so a number of melodies can be played. The compass seldom exceeds two and one-half octaves and as the tone is incapable of expression the music becomes decidedly monotonous.
4At one time the barrel organ was used in church services but today is known only as a means of street entertainment and even there is being superseded by the street piano. Also called hand organ.
5barrer (bär-rā') Fr. v.
6To bar, to obstruct, to stop. In guitar playing the act of pressing all the strings against the finger-board, with the left fore-finger, thus raising the pitch.
7barrer, great (bär-rā') Fr.
8The act of pressing all the strings on a guitar at once with the first finger of the left hand.
9barrer, small (bär-rā') Fr.
10The act of pressing two or three strings on a guitar with the first finger of the left hand.
11barrure (bär-rūr) Fr. n.
12The bar of a lute.
13Bart (bārt) Ger. n.
14Literally, beard. The ear of an organ pipe, one of the metal projections at either side or under the mouth of a pipe to add brilliancy to the tone.
15baryphonous (bär-ī-fō'-nūs) Grk. adj.
16Literally, a deep tone. A very, deep or very coarse (man's) voice.
17baryton (bā-rē-tōn) Fr. n.
18Baryton (bā-ri-tōn') Ger. n.
19barytone (bär'-ī-tōn) Eng. n.
201. A male voice, intermediate between bass and tenor and partaking of the quality of bass. Its range is usually from lower G on the bass staff to lower F on the treble.
212. A brass wind instrument of the saxhorn family having a range of from B flat on the second line of the bass staff to C flat on the third line of the treble stave.
223. A viola da gamba, an ancient instrument similar to the violoncello, the bass instrument of the viol family,
23Bass
24which beside the regular strings had sympathetic metal strings passing under the keyboard. The peculiarly shaped bridge carries six or seven regular strings tuned much as they are on the viola da gamba. Partly under it and partly to the right of it is a brass frame carrying a variable number of strings, from seven to forty-four. The lowest string was usually tuned to E and the tuning of the rest varied according to their number, the largest number allowing a pair of strings to each half tone throughout the two octaves which comprises the compass of the instrument. If the strings were only seven they were probably tuned to some diatonic scale. The barytone was invented in the latter half of the Seventeenth Century, and was attributed to English makers, although no English specimens exist, and the instrument was used almost exclusively in Germany. Equivalent of viola di bordone and viola bastarda.
254. A term applied to any instrument between the bass and tenor instruments of the same family. Abbr. bar.
26barytone clef
27The F clef placed on the third line of the staff:
28Now obsolete.
29barytonhorn
30The euphonium.
31Barz Welsh n.
32A poet musician or bard.
33bas (bā) Fr. adj.
34Low.
35bas dessus (bā dūs-sū) Fr.
36Literally, second treble. The mezzo-soprano voice. The female voice that is lower than soprano and higher than contralto.
37base n. and adj.
38An old spelling of bass.
39basis
40An obsolete name for the bass part, used in place of bassus during the Sixteenth Century, owing to the predominating influence of the Greek language at that time.
41Baskische Trommel (bäs-kīsch'-ē trôm'-mēl)
42Equivalent of tambourine. See also tambourine.
43bass (bās) Eng. n.
44Bass (bās) Ger. n.
451. The lowest note in a chord or the lowest part or voice in a composition.
462. That male voice having the lowest pitch. Its compass is from the second F below middle C to middle C.
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