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Dictionary of Music, Pronouncing and Defining, 1925
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1Kettentriller (kět't'n-trī'l'lēr), Ger. Chain of shakes.
3Kettledrum. This instrument consists of a brass or copper kettle, more or less hemispherical, over the top of which is stretched a skin. In the orchestra two kettledrums are generally employed, sometimes more. Each has a compass of a fifth; the lower may be tuned to any note from F to c, and the higher to any note from B-flat to f. Kettledrums are made to sound by means of two sticks, which have a soft knob at one end.
5Key. (1) A family of chords (and the tones composing them) bearing a fixed relation to a central tone, called a keynote, or tonic. (2) Once applied to what is now called clef. (3) A mechanical lever for controlling the tone on many musical instruments, such as the organ, piano, flute, horn, accordion, clarinet, etc. Keys are of many forms, according to the service required of them. (4) The instrument by means of which the tuning-pins of the pianoforte are moved. This instrument is now commonly called a tuning-key, or a tuning-hammer.
7Keyboard. The rows of keys of a pianoforte, organ, or similar instrument.
9Keyboard, chromatic. An attachment applied to the keys of a piano for the purpose of enabling players of moderate skill to execute chromatic scales and passages with facility and correctness.
11Key bugle. A Kent bugle.
13Keyed. Furnished with keys.
15Keyed harmonica. An instrument with keys, the hammers striking upon plates of glass.
17Keyed instruments. All instruments whose tones are produced by the pressure of the fingers upon keys.
19Keyed-stop violin. An arrangement which may be attached to a violin, consisting of a fingerboard made of ebony, with thirty-three stops, called keystops, which stand above the strings and act upon them perpendicularly.
21Keyed violin. An instrument having forty strings, arranged like those of a piano, and acted upon by horsehair bows, under the pressure of keys like those of an organ.
23Key harp. An instrument of recent invention, resembling a piano externally, with a similar arrangement of keys and pedals. It consists of an adjustment of tuning forks of various pitches, over cavities of sonorous metal.
25Keynote. The tonic, or repose, note of a scale.
27Keytone. The keynote.
29Khasan (khā'zān), Heb. The principal singer in a synagogue.
31Kin chi (kīn kē). A Chinese musical instrument possessing a body of thin wood, with five strings of silk, of different sizes. The scholar's lute. A kind of dulcimer.
33King chi (king kee). A Chinese instrument consisting of a frame of wood with pendent stone, graduated through sixteen notes and struck with a hammer.
35Kinnor (kīn-nōr'), Heb. A small harp, or lyre, held in the hand and played upon while dancing. David played the kinnor.
37Kirche (kīr'khē), Ger. Church.
39Kirchencantate (kīr'kh'n-kăn-tä'tā), Ger. A cantata for use in church services. Bach produced a large number of works of this kind. Generally they consist of a biblical text set for chorus and solos, with accompaniment of orchestra and organ.
41Kirchenkomponist (kīr'kh'n-kōm-pō-nīst'), Ger. Composer of church music. one of two readings
42Kirchencomponist (kīr'kh'n-kōm-pō-nīst'), Ger. Composer of church music. one of two readings
44Kirchendienst (kīr'kh'n-dēnst), Ger. Church service; form of prayer.
46Kirchenfest (kīr'kh'n-fěst), Ger. Church festival.
48Kirchengesang (kīr'kh'n-ghě-säng'), Ger. Spiritual song, canticle, psalm, or hymn.
50Kirchenmusik (kīr'kh'n-moo-zīk'), Ger. Church music.
52Kirchenschluss (kīr'kh'n-shloos), Ger. An ecclesiastical, or plagal, cadence; the chord of the subdominant followed by the tonic.
54Kirchenstyl (kīr'kh'n-stēl), Ger. Church style, ecclesiastical style.
56Kirchentöne (kīr'kh'n-tōn-ě), Ger. The church, or ecclesiastical, modes.
58Kit. The name of a small pocket violin used by dancing-masters. Its length is about sixteen inches, and that of the bow about seventeen.
60Kitar (kī-tār). A musical instrument of the Arabs. Our word "guitar" is derived from this.
62Kithara (kīth'ā-rā), Gr. A cithara, or lyre, of the Greeks.
64Klage (klā'ghě), Ger. Lamentation.
66Klagend (klā'g'und), Ger. Plaintive. one of two readings
67Klagend (klā'g'ünd), Ger. Plaintive. one of two readings
69Klagegedicht (klā'ghě-gě-dīkht'), Ger. Elegy, mournful song, lamentation
71Klageton (klā'ghě-tōn), Ger. Plaintive tune, or melody.
73Klang (kläng), Ger. Sound; tune; ringing.
75Klangboden (kläng-bō-d'n), Ger. Soundboard.
77Klänge (kläng'ě), Ger. pl. Sounds, melodies.
79Klangfarbe (kläng'fär-bě), Ger. Sound-color; the quality, or timbre, of sounds.
81Klanggeschlecht (kläng'ghě-shlěkht'), Ger. A genus, or mode.
83Klanglehre (kläng'lā-rě), Ger. Acoustics.
85Klanglos (kläng'lōs), Ger. Soundless.
87Klappe (klāp'pě), Ger. Kev of any wind instrument; a valve.
89Klappenflügelhorn (klāp'p n-flū'g'l-hōrn), Ger. The keyed bugle.
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