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Pronouncing and defining dictionary of music, 1896
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1souant intervals, and which, on account of its unsatisfying and disquieting effect, requires to be resolved into a consonant chord. (V. Introduction.) The foregoing are the uses of this term, as popularly employed. Properly speaking, however, discord is an unmusical, inharmonious effect, which may go far beyond the limits of the permissible. Any inharmonious combination. A Dissonance is a discordant combination musically employed. Inasmuch as consonance depends upon appreciable relations between the tones so related, dissonance and discord depend upon the clashing of vibrations and the inability of the ear to find a common measure or principle of unity. These clashings take place in dissonance (q. v.), but the manner in which a dissonance is used suggests to the ear the resolution, the later entrance of the concordant tone which the dissonance had temporarily displaced.
3Discordant. A term applied to all discordant or inharmonious sounds.
5Discordante (dīs-kōr-dān'tē), It. Discordant.
6Discordantemente (dīs-kōr-dān-tē-měn'tē), It. Discordantly.
7Discordare (dīs-kōr-dā're), It. To be out of tune.
8Discorder (dīs-kōr-dā', Fr. ) tune.
9Discorde (dīs-kōrd), Fr. } Discord.
10Discordia (dīs-kōr'dī-ā), Lat. }
11Discreto (dīs-krā'tō), It. Discreetly.
12Discrezione (dīs-krāt-tsī-ō'nē), It. Discretion, judgment, moderation.
13Dis-dur (dīs-door), Ger. The key of D# major.
14Disharmonie (dīs-hār-mō-nē'), Ger. Disharmony.
15Disharmonisch (dīs-hār-mō'nīsh), Ger. Unharmonious.
16Disharmony. Discord, want of harmony.
17Disinvolto (dīs-īn-vōl'tō),
18Disinvolturato (dīs-īu-vōl-too-rā'tō), It. }
19Off-hand, bold, not forced, naturally.
20Disis (dēs-ēs), Ger. D-double-sharp.
21Disjunct. Disjoined. A term applied by the Greeks to those tetrachords where the lowest sound of the upper one was one degree higher than the acutest sound of the one immediately beneath it.
22Disjunct succession. A succession by skips.
23Dis-moll (dīs-mōl), Ger. The key of D# minor.
24Disonanza (dīs-ō-nānt'sā), It. Dissonance.
25Disonare (dīs-ō-nā're), It. To sound discordantly.
26Di sopra (dē sō'prā), It. Above.
27Disperato (dīs-pē-rā'tō), It. Despaired of; with desperation.
28Disperazione (dīs-pē-rā-tsī-ō'nē), It. Despair, desperation.
29Dispersed harmony. Harmony in which the notes forming the various chords are separated from each other by wide intervals. Strictly, chord positions in which the upper voices exceed the compass of an octave.
31Disposition. The arrangement of the stops in an organ, disposing them according to power, quality of tone, etc. (2) Estimate as to cost and appointment of an organ.
33Dissonance. The inharmonious relation of tones. (See Discord.) Strictly speaking, dissonance is the musical employment of discord. All harmonic combinations are dissonant in greater or less degree, except the unison, octave, major and minor thirds and sixths, the perfect fifth, and harmonic seventh. All dissonances are employed as temporary substitutes for consonants, in order to render the harmonic motion more emphatic and appealing. The disappearance of the dissonance is generally effected by the voice having it progressing one degree to the consonant tone displaced. Most dissonances are either Suspensions, held over out of a previous chord, Appoggiaturas, struck free upon the beat but resolved upon the half beat, Passing tones, introduced in passing by degrees from one chord tone to another, or Changing tones, where a voice skips off to a dissonant tone and immediately returns.
35Dissonant chords. All the chords except the perfect concord and its derivatives.
37Dissonant (dīs-sō-nānh), Fr. } Dissonant,
38Dissonante (dīs-sō-nān'tē), It. } out of tune, discordant.
39Dissonanz (dīs-sō-nānts'), Ger. } Dissonance;
40Dissonanza (dīs-sō-nān'tsā), It. } discord.
41Dissonare (dīs-sō-nā're), It. } To sound
42Dissoner (dīs-sō-nā'), Fr. } out of tune;
43Dissoniren (dīs-sō-nē'r'n), Ger. } to be discordant.
44Dissoni suoni (dīs-sō-nē soo-ō'nī), It. Inharmonious sounds; discords.
45Distico (dīs-tē-kō), Sp. A distich.
46Distinti suoni (dīs-tēn'tī soo-ō'nī), It. Distinct sounds.
47Distinto (dīs-tēn'tō), It. Clear, distinct.
48Distonare (dīs-tō-nā're), It. To be out of tune.
49Distoniren (dīs-tō-nē'r'n), Ger. To get out of tune; to produce discord either in singing or playing.
50Di testa (dē tēs'tā), It. Of the head, in speaking of the voice.
51Dithyrambe (dē-tī-rāhmb), Fr. } A song or
52Dithyrambe (dē-tī-rām'bē), Ger. } ode sung in ancient times in honor of Bacchus; a wild, rhapsodical composition.
53Dithyrambic (dē-thī-rām'bīk), Gr. In style of a dithyrambe.
54Ditirambica (dē-tē-rām'bī-kā), It. } Dithyram-
55Ditirambico (dē-tē-rām'bī-kō), It. } bic.
56Ditirambo (dē-tē-rām'bō), It. See Dithyrambe.
57Dito (dē'tō), It. The finger.
58Dito grosso (dē'tō grōs'sō), It. The thumb.
59Diton (dē-tōn'h), Fr. } Of two parts or
60Ditone (dē-tō-nē), Gr. } tones; a major
61Ditono (dē-tō-nō), It. } third or interval of
62Ditonus (dī-tō-noos), Lat. } two whole tones.
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