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Pronouncing and defining dictionary of music, 1896
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1Fingering, American. The use of the sign (X) to indicate the thumb in pianoforte-playing, in distinction from the German or foreign fingering, in which the thumb is called the first finger.
3Fingering, foreign. A method of finger-ing piano music which designates the thumb as the first finger.
5Fingerleiter (fīng'ēr-li'tēr), Ger. Finger-guides.
7Fingern (fīng'ērn), Ger. To play, to finger.
9Fingersatz (fīng'ēr-sätz), Ger. Fingering.
11Finished. A term applied to those vocal or instrumental performers who have attained an advanced and artistic execution.
13Finita (fē-nē'tā), It. Finished, ended, concluded.
15Finito (fē-nē'tō), It. A canon which is not repeated.
17Fino al (fē'nō āl), It. Play as far as, stop at, end at.
19Fin qui (fēn kwē), It. To this place.
21Fint (fēnt), It. Feigned, false, interrupted, in respect to cadences; a feint, or deceptive, close.
23Fioca (fē-ō'kā), It. Hoarse, faint, feeble.
25Fioco (fē-ō'kō), It. Hoarseness.
27Fioreggiante (fē-ō-rēd-jī-ān'tē), It. Too ornate, decorated with roulades, cadences, etc.
29Fioretti (fē-ō-rē'ttē), It. Little graces, or ornaments, in vocal music.
31Fioriscente (fē-ō-rī-shēn'tē, It. ) Florid, abounding with ornaments.
33Fiorita cadenza (fē-ō-rē'tā kä-dēn't'sā), It. A cadenza whose last note but one is divided into many notes.
35Fioritezza (fē-ō-rī-tēt'sā), It. Embellishment, a florid style of performance.
37Fioritura (fē-ō-rī-too'rā), It. Literally, "a flowering." A florid melodic ornament. Fioreggiare, the corresponding verb, signifies to ornament (flower) a melody by solving its principal elements into a multiplicity of shorter notes of varied pitch. Fioritura is the plural of fioritura.
39First. A word applied to the upper part of a duet, trio, quartet, or any other composition, vocal or instrumental; such parts generally express the air.
41First bass. High bass.
43First inversion. A term applied to a chord when the bass takes the third. See Inversion.
45First soprano. The high soprano.
47First tenor. The high tenor.
49Fis (fīs), Ger. The note F#.
51Fis-dur (fīs-door), Ger. The key of F# major.
53Fis-fis (fīs-fīs) Ger. The note F-double-sharp.
55Fis-moll (fīs'moll), Ger. The key of F# minor.
57Fistel (fīst'el), Ger. Feigned voice; falsetto.
59Fistola (fīs'tō-lā), It. A reed, a pipe.
61Fistula (fīs'too-lā), Lat. This was once a common flute, and was blown at the end. See Flûte à bec.
63Fistula Germanica (fīs'too-lā gēr-mā'ni-kā). Lat. German flute.
65Fistula Panis (fīs'too-la pä'nīs), Lat. The Pandean pipes; wind instruments of the ancients.
67Fistula pastoralis (fīs'too-lā pās-to-rā'lis), Lat. The Pandean pipes; wind instruments of the ancients.
69Fistula pastorica (fīs'too-lā pās-tō-rī-kā), Lat. Name given by Cicero and other classical writers to the oaten pipe used by the audience in the Roman theaters to express their disapprobation.
71Fistulator (fīs'too-lā'tōr), Lat. A piper, a player on a flute or flageolet.
73Fistuliren (fīs-too-lē'r'n), Ger. (1) To sing or speak with the head voice. (2) In speaking of organ-pipes, to overblow, i.e. to sound one of the upper partial notes instead of the fundamental note.
75Fithele. The old English name for the fiddle.
77Fixed syllables. Syllables which do not change with the change of key. The Italians use fixed syllables.
79Flachflöte (fākh-flō'tē), Ger. Shallow flute; flageolet; also an organ-stop of rather thin tone.
81Flageolet (flā-zhē-ō-lā'), Fr. A small flûte à bec, that is, a straight flute, with a plug in the mouthpiece which leaves only a narrow slit for the breath to pass through. (2) An organ-stop. (3) Flageolet tones are those ethereal sounds produced on stringed instruments (violin, harp, etc.) by lightly touching a string in certain places with a finger, and then setting it in vibration by drawing the bow over it or plucking it. (V. Harmonics.)
83Flageolet, double. A flageolet having two tubes.
85Flagioletta (flā-jī-ō-lē'tā), It. (See Flageolet.)
87Flam. In drum music a grace note or stroke corresponding with the appoggiatura in other compositions. There are two flams, the open and the close. The latter is made as rapidly as possible, so that the two notes are almost together. The open flam is not so close.
89Flaschinett (flāsh-ī-nēt), Ger. The flageolet.
91Flat. A character which lowers a note one semitone (b).
93Flat, double. A character composed of two flats, indicating a depression of two semitones (bb).
95Flatter la corde (flāt-tā lä kōrd), Fr. To play the violin, etc., in a soft, expressive manner. one of two readings
96Flatter la corde (flāt-tā lä kōrd), Fr. To play the violiu, etc., in a soft, expressive manner. one of two readings
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