Scan 58
Dictionary of Music, Pronouncing and Defining, 1925
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1a bar, but improperly. The name bar means simply the line, and its office is to indicate the place of the strong accent. A very heavy mark called Double Bar is used in psalmody to indicate the end of phrases and lines of poetry, and in instrumental music sometimes to indicate the end of a strain. When accompanied by dots upon the left or right, the strain upon that side is to be repeated. Double bars sometimes serve to mark the measure, and sometimes are inserted in the middle of a measure. There is no rule upon this subject. Bars did not come into more general use till about the middle of the seventeenth century. In scores they are to be met with centuries before that time, but for the most part only in theoretical books, as it was not then the custom to print compositions in score. With the rise of the monodic style in Italy, towards the end of the sixteenth century, bars came to the fore, as the publications with a basso continuo prove. The systems of notation called Tablature have almost always made use of bars.
3Barem (bä-rëm'), Ger. A stopped register, of soft 8 or 16 feet tone, in German organs.
5Bärentanz (bär'en-täntz), Ger. Bear dance. Imitating the primitive music of the peasant, with shrill piccolo and drum.
7Bari. An abbreviation of Baritone.
9Baribasso. A deep baritone voice.
11Bariolage (bär-i-ô-läzh), Fr. A passage for the violin, etc., in which the open strings are more especially used.
13Baritenor. The deeper sort of tenor voice.
15Bariton (bä-ri-tönh'), Fr.
16Baritono (bä-rë'tö-nô), It. one of two readings
17Baritono (bä-rë'tö'nô), It. one of two readings
18Baritone, or, baryton, or, barytone. (1) The male voice which is higher in pitch than the bass and lower than the tenor, and participates to some extent in the character of both. Its usual compass is from a to f'. (2) A brass instrument with valves, having a compass of three octaves, from b♭ to b♭♭, or from c to c''. (3) The viola di bordone (or bardone), a stringed instrument which went out of use in the second half of the eighteenth century. It had six or seven catgut strings above the fingerboard, which were played with the bow, and from eight to twenty-seven wire strings below the fingerboard, which were plucked and sounded sympathetically with the upper ones. (4) The word barytone is often used as an epithet to indicate an instrument related to other instruments as the barytone voice to other voices.
20Baritone clef. The F clef on the third line of the stave. It is now no longer used.
22Baritono (bä-ri-tö'nô), It. Baritone.
24Barocco (bä-rök'kô), It. A term applied to Baroque (bä-rök), Fr. music in which the harmony is confused and abounding in unnatural modulations.
26Bärpfeife (bär'pfí-fě), Ger. Bear pipe; an obsolete reed-stop of soft intonation.
28Barra (bär'rä), It. A bar line; a bar.
30Barrage (bär-räzh'), Fr. See Barré.
32Barre (bär), Fr. A bar in music.
34Barré (bär-rä), Fr. In guitar-playing, a temporary nut, formed by placing the forefinger of the left hand across some of the strings.
36Barred C. C with a bar across it; one of the marks of alla breve measure, thus, 4/4
38Barre de luth (bär dûh loot), Fr. The bridge of the lute.
40Barre de mesure (bär dûh më-zûr), Fr. A bar line.
42Barre de répétition (bär dûh râ-pâ-tî-sî-õnh), Fr. A dotted double bar; also, a thick line used as an abbreviation to mark the repetition of a group of notes.
44Barrel. The body of a bell.
46Barrel chime. The cylindrical portion of the mechanism sometimes used for the purpose of ringing a chime of bells.
48Barrel organ. An organ in which the keys which give the wind access to the pipes are acted upon by pins (staples) fixed on a cylinder, which is made to revolve by turning a handle. This turning of the handle also sets the wind-producing mechanism in motion. The same principle has also been applied to small church organs, for the advantage of small parishes unable to hire an organist. The cylinders, each pegged for a certain number of tunes, are bought and renewed as wanted.
50Barrer. The act of employing the forefinger of the left hand as a nut in guitar-playing.
52Barrer, great. The act of pressing all the strings of the guitar at the same time, with the forefinger of the left hand.
54Barrer, small. The act of pressing two or three strings of a guitar with the forefinger of the left hand.
56Barrure (bär-rûr), Fr. The bar of a lute, etc.
58Baryphonus (bä-ri-fô'noos). A man with a very deep or very coarse voice.
60Barz (bärz), Wel. A poet-musician, a bard.
62Bas (bäh), Fr. Low.
64Bas dessus (bäh dûs-së), Fr. A mezzo-soprano, or second-treble voice.
66Base. The lowest, or deepest, male voice; Bass. the lowest part in a musical composition.
68Basilica (bä-zël'Y-kä), It. A cathedral.
70Bassa (bäs'sä), It. Low, deep; 8va bassa, play the notes an octave lower.
72Bass alberti. A bass formed by taking the notes of chords in arpeggios.
74Bassanello (bäs-sä-nël'lô), It. An obsolete musical instrument.
76Bassa ottava (bäs'sä öt-tä'vâ), It. Play the passage an octave lower than written.
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