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American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1boquilla
2boquilla (bō-kēl'-yā) Spa. n.
3Little mouth: the mouthpiece of a wind instrument.
4bordone (bōr-dō'-ně) It. n.
5Bordum (bōr'-doon) Ger. n.
61. An organ stop composed of wooden pipes covered at the top and producing a hollow tone. The pitch is usually very deep, the lowest tone being three or four octaves below middle C. In the French organs the pitch may be higher, having as the lowest tone middle C or the octave below.
72. The name applied by the French to the lowest pitched string of the cello and double bass.
83. The two strings of the hurdy-gurdy which were never pressed against the finger-board in producing tones of different pitches. Instead they vibrate freely, giving but one tone.
94. A very large bell.
105. A drone bass, that is, a bass note or notes continuing unchanged throughout a composition.
11Bordunflöte (bōr'-doon-flā'-tě) Ger. n.
12An organ stop giving a very deep flute-like tone, as the name signifies.
13botto (bōt'-tō) It. n.
14A blow: the toll or peal of a bell.
15bouche (boosh) Fr. n.
16The mouth: as used in phrases like bouche fermée, with closed mouth.
17bouché (boo-shā') Fr. adj. mas.
181. Of wind instruments, muted, that is, having the sound modified by the introduction of the hand or a pear-shaped leather covered pad into the bell-shaped part of the instruments.
192. Of organ, stopped, that is, altered in tone by a mechanism.
20bouche fermée (boosh fēr-mā') Fr.
21With closed mouth: humming, vocalization without words, with closed teeth and lips nearly closed. This is sometimes recommended to singers as strengthening the breathing without straining the vocal chords.
22bouchéé (boo-shā') Fr. adj., fem. of bouché.
231. Of wind instruments, muted, that is, having the sound modified by the introduction of the hand or a pear-shaped leather covered pad into the bell-shaped part of the instruments.
242. Of organ, stopped, that is, altered in tone by a mechanism.
25boudoir piano (boo-dwār' pē-ā-nō) Fr.
26Another name for the upright piano.
28bowing
29bourdon de cornemuse (boor-dōñ dū kōrn-müz') Fr.
30bourdon de musette (boor-dōñ dū mü-sět') Fr.
31The drone of a bagpipe; that is, one of the pipes of a bagpipe which sounds a continuous tone throughout a composition.
32bourrée (boor-rā') Fr. n.
33An old French dance of careless skipping form which must be danced in short skirts. It originated in Auvergne and Berri, provinces of south central France, and was introduced at court under Catherine de Medici in 1565.
34The dancers stand opposite one another in the various steps, which are accompanied, often to the exclusion of instrumental music, by lively songs, strongly accented in rhythm. It is now to be found as a country clog dance in the original provinces.
35boutade (boo-tăd') Fr. n.
36A whim, a freak.
371. An impromptu ballet in capricious and fanciful style.
382. A spectacular French dance in old times.
393. An instrumental fantasia or impromptu.
40bow
41In music (a) to perform by means of a bow upon a stringed instrument, as to bow a passage well; (b) to mark a passage so as to indicate the proper method of bowing.
42bow, contrary
43A reversed stroke of the bow.
44bow hand
45The right hand, the hand that holds the bow.
46bow instruments
47All instruments that are played with a bow.
48bow, violin
49See violin bow.
50bowhair
51The hair in the bows used in playing instruments of the violin family. It is usually horsehair.
52bowhand
53The right hand: the hand that holds the bow in playing instruments of the violin family.
54bowing n. and v.
55As a noun. The art of handling the bow, the style and method of managing the bow. With one who plays an instrument of the violin family the important and difficult art of so handling the bow as to bring out from
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