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Dictionary of Music, Pronouncing and Defining, 1925
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1Piena (pē-ā'nā), It. } Full.
2Pieno (pē-ā'nō), It. } Full.
3Pienamente (pē-ā-nā-měn'tě), It. Fully.
4Pieno coro (pē-ā'nō kō'rō), It. A full chorus.
5Pieno organo (pē-ā'nō ōr-gā'nō), It. With the full organ.
6Pieta (pē-ā'tā),
7Pietosamente (pē-ā-tō-zā-měn'tě), It.
8Pietoso (pē-ā-tō'zō),
9Compassionately, tenderly; implying, also, a rather slow and sustained movement.
10Pifara (pē-fā'rā), It. A fife.
11Pifferare (pif-fē-rā'rē), It. To play upon the fife; also a piper, such as, in Italy, play pastoral airs in the streets at Christmas. One of these airs forms the basis of Handel's Pastoral Symphony in the "Messiah."
12Pifferina (pif-fē-rē'nā), It. A little fife.
13Pifero (pif-fē-rō), It. A fife, or small flute; also an organ-stop of 4 feet.
14Pincé (pānh-sā), Fr. Pinched; an ornament called a mordent. See Pizzicato.
15Pincer (pānh-sā), Fr. To play upon a musical instrument.
16Pinces (pānh-s), Fr. A general name for stringed instruments.
17Pipe. Any tube formed of a reed, or of metal, or of wood, which, being blown at one end, produces a musical sound. The pipe, which was originally no more than a simple oaten straw, was one of the earliest instruments by which musical sounds were attempted.
18Piper. A performer on the pipe. Pipers were formerly one of the class of itinerant musicians, and performed on a variety of wind instruments, as the bagpipe, musette, etc.
19Piqué (pī-kā'), Fr. } To play on the violin,
20Piquer (pī-kā'), Fr. } etc., a series of notes a little staccato, and with a light pressure of the bow to each note.
21Piquiren (pē-kē'r'n), Ger. Detached; equivalent to picchiettato.
22Piston. A kind of valve used in brass instruments to alter the pitch.
23Pitch. The acuteness, or gravity, of any particular sound, or the tuning of any instrument.
24Pitch, concert. The pitch generally adopted for some one given note, and by which every other note is governed. American concert pitch at the present time (1895) is based upon an A having 431 vibrations.
25Pitchpipe. An instrument formerly used to sound the keynote of any vocal composition.
26Piu (pē'oo), It. More.
27Piu allegro (pē'oo āl-lā'grō), It. A little quicker, more lively.
28Piu che lento (pē'oo kē lěn'to), It. Slower than lento.
29Piu forte (pē'oo fôr'tě), It. Louder.
30Piu lento (pē'oo lěn'to), It. More slowly.
31Piu mosso (pē'oo mōs'sō), It. } More motion,
32Piu moto (pē'oo mō'tō), } quicker.
33Piu piano (pē'oo pē-ā'nō), It. Softer.
34Piu piu (pē'oo pē'oo), It. Somewhat more.
35Piu posto (pē'oo pōs'tō), It. Rather, inclined to; it also means quicker.
36Piu posto allegro (pē'oo pōs'tō āl-lā'grō), It. Rather quicker.
37Piu posto lento (pē'oo pōs'tō lěn'tō), It. Rather slower.
38Piu presto (pē'oo prē'stō), It. Quicker, more rapidly.
39Piu vivo (pē'oo vē'vō), It. More lively, more animated.
40Piva (pē'vā), It. A pipe, a bagpipe.
41Pizzicando (pī-tsī-kān'dō), It. } Pinched;
42Pizzicato (pī-tsī-kā'tō), } meaning that the strings of the violin, violoucello, etc., are not to be played with the bow, but pinched, or snapped, with the fingers, producing a staccato effect.
43Placidamente (plā-tshī-dā-měn'tě), It. Calmly, placidly, quietly.
44Placido (plā-tshē'dō), It. Placid, tranquil, calm.
45Plagal. Those ancient modes in which the melody was confined within the limits of the dominant and its octave.
46Plagal cadence. A cadence in which the final chord on the tonic is preceded by the harmony of the subdominant.
47Plagalisch (plā gā'līsh), Ger. Plagal.
48Plain chant (plān shānh), Fr. The plain song.
49Plain song. The name given to the old ecclesiastical chant when in its most simple state and without those harmonic appendages with which it has since been enriched. The choral service of the Protestant Episcopal Church is founded upon the Plain Song. All the priest's cantillation at the altar in the Roman Catholic Church is also a part of the Plain Song.
50Plainte (plānht), Fr. A complaint, a lament.
51Plaintif (plānht-tēf), Fr. Plaintive, doleful.
52Plaisant (plā-zānh), Fr. Pleasing.
53Plaisanteries (plā-zān-t'rē), Fr. Amusing, light compositions.
54Planxty. Old harp music of a lively, tuneful kind.
55Plaqué (plā-kā'), Fr. Struck at once, without any arpeggio or embellishment.
56Plectraphone. An ingenious invention which, attached to the piano, produces a very clever imitation of the mandolin.
57Plectrum (plēk'troom), Lat. A quill, or piece of ivory or hard wood, used to twitch the strings of the mandolin, lyre, etc.
58Plein jeu (plānzh zhū), Fr. Full organ; the term is also applied to a mixture stop of several ranks of pipes.
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