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Pronouncing dictionary and condensed encyclopedia of musical terms, instruments, composers and important works, 1880
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1Califf de Bagdad (Fr.) Comic opera in one act. Lib. by Saint-Just. Music by Boieldieu, 1800.
3Callcott, John W., Mus. Doc., an English composer of glees, anthems, etc., and a musical grammar. 1766-1821
5Calmato (Ital. käl-mä'-tō). Calmed; quieted.
7Calore (Ital. käl-ō'-rē). Heat; warmth.
9Camera (Ital. kam'-er-ä). Chamber, or room. Applied to compositions (sonata di camera) to distinguish them as secular.
11Campanini, Italo (kam-pan-ee'-nee), the great tenor, born at Parma in 1846. Studied at Parma and Milan. Debut in leading characters in 1870. Knows the tenor roles of more than eighty operas.
13Campanella (Ital. kam pan-el -la), a small bell. A piece of music suggesting little bells.
15Canon (Grk.) A musical form in which a second voice exactly repeats the melody of another (called the antecedent) at any pitch. Canons are in unison (antecedent and consequent at the same pitch) in the octave, second, third, fourth, etc. Also in contrary motion, where the consequent repeats the antecedent backwards, and inverted (the ups and downs of the antecedent reversed).
17Cantabile (Ital. kan-tä'-bil-ě, from cantare, to sing). In singing style.
19Cantata (Ital. kan-tä'-tä), sung. A composition for voices with or without orchestra. Sung without action.
21Cantate Domino (Lat. kăn-tä'tē dom'-īn-ō). "O sing unto the Lord," Ps. 98.
23Cantilena (Ital. kän-tĭ-lā'-nă). A short, song-like piece for voice or instrument. A ballad.
25Canto (Ital. kan'tō), song. The melody. Bel Canto, beautiful song.
27Cantor (Lat.) Precentor. The director of a choir.
29Cantus Fermus (Lat.) The fixed melody. A subject to which counterpoint is to be added.
31Canzona (Ital. kan-zō'-na). A song in a particular Italian style.
33Canzonetta (Ital. kan-zō-net'-tă). A little canzona. A light and airy little song.
35Capella (Ital. kä-pĕl'-lă). A chapel.
37Capelle (Ger. kä-pel'-ě). See Kapell.
39Capellmeister (Ger. mīs'-tĕr). See Kapellemeister.
41Capo (Ital. kä'-pō). The head or beginning.
43Capo tasto, or Capo dastro (Ital.) A small piece attached to the neck of a guitar to shorten all the strings in order to facilitate playing in difficult keys.
45Capriccio (Ital. kä-prĭt'-zĭo), or Caprice (Fr. kä-prēs) A freak, whim or fancy. A composition irregular in form.
47Capriccioso (Ital. ka-prit-zĭo'-zo). Capriciously.
49Capuletti e Montecchi (Ital. kä-pool-lĕt'-tee ĕd mon-tăk'-kee). "The Capulets and the Montagues." Italian opera in 3 acts, from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, by Bellini Venice, March 12, 1830. A fourth act was added by Vaccai.
51Carafa, Michele (kä-rä'-fă), a popular Italian opera and piano-forte composer. Born at Naples 1785. Made professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire in 1828. Died 1876.
53Carcassi, Matteo (kăr-kăs'-see), an eminent guitar virtuoso. Born about 1792. Died in Paris 1853.
55Carillon (kăr-Yl'-lŏn), a chime of bells. A set of bells so arranged as to be played upon.
57Carissimi, Giacomo (jak-ō'-mo kăr-ees'-sĭ-mee), a celebrated Italian composer of church music and oratorios, in which he greatly improved recitative and accompaniments, and left many works deserving to be better known than they are at present. Born at Rome 1604. Died 1674.
59Carlberg, Gotthold (gŏt'-hŏld kärl'-bārg), a German teacher, conductor, editor and composer, residing in New York. Born about 1837. A sharp and rather sarcastic writer in excellent English.
61Carnaby, Wm., Mus. Doc., an English composer of vocal music. 1772-1839.
63Carnaval (Ital.) carnival. The title of a set of fantastic pieces of Schumann, op. 9.
65Carnaval di Venise, a popular Venetian air, to which grotesque variations have been written by Paganini and many others.
67Carter, Henry, an English organist living in New York. Born perhaps about 1840.
69Carter, Thomas, an English composer of operas, a singer and pianist. 1735-1804
71Cary, Annie Louise, a celebrated contralto singer, born in Maine in 1846.
73Catalani, Angelica (än-gĕl'-ě-kă kăt-ă-lă'-nee), a great singer born 1779. Died 1849. She had a soprano voice of great compass, purity and power, and prodigious execution.
75Catch, a round for three or more voices, the singing of which was extremely fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
77Catel, Charles Simon (kă-tel'), born 1773, died 1830. A French theorist, teacher of harmony, and composer of military music and operas. Best known by his treatise on Harmony.
79Catgut, the name given to the material for certain strings. It is derived from the intestines of the sheep; never from the cat.
81Cathedral Music, music composed for the English cathedrals.
83Cavaille (kav'-al-lĕ), a family of distinguished organ-builders in the South of France. The present representative of the name is Cavaille-Coll, the distinguished Parisian organ-builder.
85Cecilia, St., a young Roman lady of noble birth, a Christian and a martyr of the second century. She has been long regarded as the patron saint of music and musicians, although there is no authentic evidence of her having had any musical accomplishment whatever.
87Celeste (Fr. sĕ-lest'). An organ stop or tremulous effect, produced by a set of reeds or pipes slightly lower than the true pitch.
89Celtic Music was entirely melodic in character, no harmony being employed, except perhaps a drone (as in the bag-pipe). The scale consisted of five tones: Major, C d e g a; minor, A c e d g, and D e g a c. Several of the Scotch and Irish melodies, especially those in the minor keys, are of Celtic origin.
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