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Pronouncing dictionary and condensed encyclopedia of musical terms, instruments, composers and important works, 1880
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1Enharmonic Scale, the name of an imaginary, or at least undetermined, scale employing enharmonic intervals.
3Enharmonic Modulation, a change of key involving an enharmonic change of chords.
5Ensemble (Fr. on-säm-bl). Together; the whole. The total effect of the combined forces.
7Entree (Fr. ohn-trä'). The entrance; introduction.
9Entfuehrung aus dem Serail (ěnt-fee'-rūng ous dem sär-il'). A comic operetta in 3 acts by Mozart. 1782.
11Erard, a famous family of piano and harpmakers in Paris, established 1777, when Sebastian Erard made the first piano-forte ever made in France.
13Eolian, see Æolian.
15Epic, an extended poem on a heroic subject.
17Episode, a digression. A part of a piece not founded on the principal subject or theme.
19Epode, an after-song. A burden or refrain.
21Erben, Henry, an eminent organ-builder in New York. Established about 1835. Died in 1878.
23Erdmansdoerfer, Max, a talented director and composer in Germany, born 1848.
25Erk, Ludwig Christian (ärk), a musical director author of school songs, etc., in Berlin. A prolific writer. B. 187. D. 1883.
27Erkel, Franz, a distinguished Hungarian composer of the present time. B. 1810. Author of several operas, etc.
29Ernani (är-nä'-nee). Italian opera in 4 acts by Verdi, founded on Victor Hugo's "Ernani." 1844.
31Ernst, Henry William, celebrated violin player and composer of pieces for the violin. Born at Brünn, 1814. D. 1865.
33Eroica. The sinfonia eroica is the 3d of Beethoven's symphonies, op. 55. 1804.
35Eroico (Ital. ār-ō'-ī-kō). Heroic.
3718 (Ger.) E flat. Es moll, E flat minor.
39Escudier (es-koo'-dee-ā) brothers, Marie and Leon, French critics of music in "La France Musicale." 1819 and 1821.
41Eschmann, J. K., talented composer for the piano, highly esteemed by Schumann. Born 1825. Is a piano teacher in Zurich.
43Eslava, Miguel Hilario, one of the most distinguished Spanish composers and musicians of the present time, was born in 1807. Was composer of operas, church music, etc. D. 1878
45Espirando (Ital. es-pīr-an'-dō). Used in the same sense as perdendosi, dying away; i.e., gradually softer and slower.
47Espressivo (Ital. es-pres-ee'-vō). Expressively.
49Esser, Heinrich (ēs'-ēr), a well known German composer of popular songs, born 1818. In 1847 was director of the Royal Opera in Vienna. Died 1872.
51Essential, the necessary or indispensable. In harmony the essential tones are those belonging to the chord, one of each. The doubles or repetitions of these, and the auxiliary notes are not an essential part of the harmony, although they may be to the effect.
53Esther, Handel's first oratorio, 1720. 2. Cantata by Wm. B. Bradbury, words by C. M. Cady.
55Esterhazy, a distinguished musical family, living partly in Vienna and partly in Hungary, who for very many years kept up a complete orchestra. Of this Haydn was director for about 30 years. This and the support of his private opera cost the prince, in 1790, 40,000 florins ($20,000).
57Et Incarnatus (Lat. īn-kăr-nā'-tūs), "and was born." A part of the Credo, in the Mass.
59Etoile du Nord. L', "The Star of the North," grand opera in 3 acts. Music by Meyerbeer. 1854.
61Et Resurrexit, "and rose again." Part of the Credo.
63Etude (Fr. ā-tūde). Study. Etudes are of several kinds: (1) Mechanical, such as those of Czerney, Köhler, Kalkbrenner, Herz, etc. (2) Mechanical and artistic, as when a new method of practice is proposed to facilitate certain artistic effects. Such are the Clementi Gradus (best in Tausig's arrangement) for the classical school; the Chopin studies and Liszt's studies in transcendent execution, for the new school. (3) Studies in musical effect, such as: Bach's "Clavier" and Kunst der Fugue; Heller's Art of Phrasing; Schumann's etudes symphoniques, and studies founded on Paganini's caprices. (4) Studies for elementary instruction, among the best of which are those of Læschhorn, op. 66, for forming the execution.
65Etwas langsamer (Ger. ēt'-väs lāng'-sā-měr). A little slower.
67Euler, Leonhard (oil-er), a great mathematician and acoustician, one of the first who investigated the scientific principles of vibrations in tones. Born at Basel; 1707. D. 1783.
69Euphony, sweet sound.
71Euphonium, a brass instrument, the B flat bass sax-horn. Usually furnished with 4 or 5 valves.
73Euryanthe (yoo'-rī-ăn'-thē, Ger. pronunciation oi'-ry-ăn-the). The 6th of Weber's 7 operas. 1823.
75Evers, Carl, a pianist and composer residing in Vienna. B. 1819. Author of sonatas, fugues, fantasias, etc.
77Extempore Playing, the art of working up a subject without premeditation. In this art the old masters, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, etc., were very proficient. It depends on natural musical feeling, and a mastery of the art of musical expression by means of much practice in writing. The extempore playing of uninstructed players is generally egregious nonsense, and ought not to be tolerated in church or society. Among American musicians the most distinguished for ability in extempore performance, are Dudley Buck and Wm. Mason.
79Expression, the utterance of feeling.
81Extravaganza (Ital. ex-trāv-ā gānt'-zā). A cadence or ornament in bad taste. A work of art in which the accepted laws are caricatured or violated for a purpose.
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