Scan 93
American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1bis
2passage so marked is to be played or sung again.
32. The French use it in applauding as the word encore is used.
43. It may mean a subdivision of some number or part of a musical composition.
5bis unca (bís ūn'-kā) Lat.
6Twice barbed: an obsolete name for a sixteenth note.
7biscanto (bēs-kān'-tō) It.
8Two singing: a duet, a song sung by two people.
9bischero (bís'-kā-rō) It. n.
10In all stringed instruments one of the pegs which pierce the neck and around which the strings are fastened. They are called tuning pegs from the fact that by turning them the strings are shortened or lengthened and the pitch heightened or lowered.
11biscroma (bēs-krō'-mā) It. n.
12biscrome (bēs-krôm) Fr. n.
13A semiquaver, a sixteenth note.
14bisdiapason (bīs-di-ā-pā'-zōn) Lat. n. and adj.
15Twice, the whole octave: a double octave or the interval of fifteen consecutive notes.
16biseau (bē-zō') Fr. n.
17Stopper; biseau d'une orgue, stopper of an organ pipe, used to make the tone sharper or flatter.
18bisinia (bī-sin'-ī-ā) Lat. n.
19A term applied to piano passages where the notes played by one hand are regularly repeated by the other.
20bisinium (bī-sin'-ī-ūm) Lat. n.
21A composition in two parts: a two-part song, or a duet.
22bisogna (bē-zōn-yā) It. n.
23Must, is necessary: as in the direction, si bisogna da capo el segno, must be repeated from the beginning to the sign.
24Bison Dance of the Mandans
25A religious ceremonial dance performed by the Mandans, an Indian tribe of the upper Missouri. The dance was performed by eight Mandans, dressed in buffalo hides, having the horns left on and showing the eyesockets. Their bodies were painted with bands of red, black and white, and on their shoulders they bore bundles of willow branches. Their dance imitated the appearance and movements of the buffalo.
26bisquádro (bēs-kwā'-drō) It. n.
27The natural sign (♮), the sign which restores a note to its natural pitch in the scale, raising it a half tone if it has been flatted and lowering it a half tone if it has been sharped. Synonym of bequadro.
28bissare (bēs-sā'-rē) It. v.
29bisser (bēs-sā') Fr. v.
30To demand again: to encore.
31bissex (bīs'-sēx) Eng. n. from Lat.
32Twice six.
33A species of guitar invented by Vanhecke in 1770. It had twelve strings, the six highest passing over a fretted finger-board, and capable of being stopped; the other six below the finger-board. It had a compass of three and a half octaves.
34bit
35A small piece of tubing used to supplement the length of brass wind instruments and to deepen their pitch.
36Bitterkeit (bīt'-tēr-kit) Ger. n.
37Bitterness: applied to the manner of expression in singing; anger or sorrow with bitterness being of a much harsher nature than anger or grief alone.
38bizzarramente (bīd-zār-rā-měn-tě) It. adv.
39Strangely, oddly: a direction meaning to be performed whimsically.
40bizzarria (bīd-zār-rē'-ā) It. n.
41Strangeness, oddness: composed in a fantastic, unusual style.
42bizzarro (bīd-zār'-rō) It. adj.
43Strange, odd, fantastic: a composition unusual and whimsical in style.
44blanche (blāñsh) Fr. n.
45White: a white note, a half note.
46blanche pointée (blāñsh pwāñ-tā') Fr.
47A dotted half note: a half note followed by a dot, which means that the half note is to be given its own time value plus half that value.
48Blasebalg (blā'-zē-bālkh) Ger. n.
49Bellows: the bellows of an organ.
50Blasehorn (blā'-zē-hōrn) Ger. n.
51Bugle horn, hunting horn.
52Blasemusik (blā'-zē-moo-zēk') Ger. n.
53Music for wind instruments.
54blasen (blā'-zēn) Ger. v.
55To blow, to sound: to blow or sound an instrument.
56Blasinstrument (blāz'-īn-stroo-měnt) Ger. n.
57A wind instrument. Abbr. Bl.
58Blatt (blāt) Ger. n.
59Literally, a leaf or blade: the reed of a wind instrument.
60Blechinstrumente (blēkh'-īn-stroo-měn-tě) Ger. n. pl.
61Plate or tin instrument: a general name for all brass instruments, as trumpets and trombones. Abbr. Bl.
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