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Pronouncing dictionary and condensed encyclopedia of musical terms, instruments, composers and important works, 1880
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1Keler-Bela (whose real name is Albert von Kéler) was born in Hungary in 1820. In 1845 he begun study in Vienna, and in 1854 took command of Gungl's orchestra in Berlin. Presently he returned to Berlin and succeeded to the Leadership of Lanner's orchestra. Has composed many overtures, waltzes, marches, etc., characterized by brilliant style, and showy instrumentation.
3Kellogg, Clara Louise, the favorite American soprano, was born in Sumterville, N. C., in 1842. She made her debut as Gilda in Rigolette in 1861, since which she has been constantly before the public. She is a conscientious artist, has a voice of great compass and purity, and is highly esteemed in England and this country.
5Kelly, Michael, an Irish composer of theatrical music. 1764-1826.
7Kent Bugle, an improved form of the key bugle. It had a complete chromatic scale from Bb below the treble staff to C above. Superseded by sax-horns and cornets.
9Keolanthe, Or the Unearthly Bride, opera in 2 acts by Balfe, 1841.
11Keraulophon (kér-ō'-w'-lō'-phōn), an organ stop of string tone and 8 ft. pitch.
13Kettle Drums are copper or brass basins with a head of skin that can be tuned to a true musical note. Used by cavalry and in orchestras, always in pairs (tonic and dominant).
15Key, a mechanical contrivance through which the finger produces or modifies a sound in instruments.
17Key, a relationship of tones. All authentic modern music rests upon the normal key, or tonal system from which all our harmony is drawn. Taking any tone as tonic the remaining seven tones of the octave stand in the following relations to it: 9-8, 5-4, 4-3, 3-2, 5-3, 15-8, 2-1. These are the ratios of the major scale. The same tones may be used in the minor mode without alteration, but generally the fifth of the major is sharpened so as to make a major seventh in the minor. Thus the tones C D E F G A B C make the key of C. If G sharp be taken instead of G, the key becomes A minor. The subject of tonality has been thoroughly investigated by Helmholtz, to whose "Tone Sensations" reference is made.
19Key Note, the tone of a key from which all the others are determined. That tone of a scale which makes the best point of closing.
21Kiel, Friedrich (keel), a German violinist, and distinguished master of counterpoint and fugue in the Berlin Hochschule for music. Is composer of a Requiem, a Missa Solemnis, and in 1874 an oratorio, Christus. Born 1821 at Puderbach.
23King, Matthew Peter, an English composer of operas. 1773-1823.
25King Charles the Second, opera in 2 acts, by G. A. Macfarren, 1849.
27Kirche (keerk'-hē), church.
29Kirche-Cantaten, church cantatas, of which Bach left a large number.
31Kirchner, Theodor (keerk'-nēr), one of the most talented of the disciples of Schumann, a composer of genre pieces for the piano-forte. Born 1824 at Newkirchen. Lives at Leipsic.
33Kirnberger, Johann Phillip (keern-bār-gēr). Composer and theorist (most of the latter being false), was born 1721. Lived at Berlin as Kapellmeister to the Princess Amelia. Died 1783.
35Kit, a small violin.
37Kittel, Johann Christian, a distinguished organ virtuoso and composer, one of the last pupils of J. S. Bach. Born at Erfurt 1732. Died 1809. His published works are not very important. His best pupil was Ch. Rink, of Darmstadt.
39Klavier, see Clavier.
41Klang (Ger. kläng). Sound.
43Klang-farbe (Ger. kläng-fär-bē). Tone-color.
45Klingemann, Carl (klīng'-gē-mān), a German literary man and poet, author of many of the songs which Mendelssohn set to music. Born at Limmer 1793. Died in London, 1862, as Secretary of Legation.
47Klein (Ger. klīn). Little, small.
49Klindworth, Carl, one of the best living musicians and pianists, most distinguished as editor of the famous "Jurgenson" edition of Chopin. Born at Hanover 1830. In 1850 he went to Weimar to study with Liszt, where he was the associate of Raff, Bülow, Prückner, Wm. Mason, etc., being especially intimate with the latter. From 1854 he lived 14 years in London. Since 1868 he has been professor of piano-forte in the Conservatory at Moscow. K. has distinguished himself, also, by his arrangement of the piano score of Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen."
51Kloss, Karl Johan Chr., a noted organ virtuoso, born 1792 at Mohrungen, and served as organist and director in various places. Died 1853 at Riga. Left many songs, big and little piano pieces, organ pieces, etc.
53Klughardt, August, a talented German composer and director. Born in 1847 at Köthen, educated at Dresden, and in 1873 became Hofkapellmeister in Naustrelitz. Is composer of songs, piano pieces, overtures, etc., which show decided originality.
55Knecht, Justin Heinrich (kněkt), a noted organ, piano, and violin player, theorist, and composer of psalms, motets, cantatas, sonatas, etc., etc., and instruction books. Born 1752, died 1817.
57Knee Stop, an organ stop worked by the knee.
59Knell, a stroke of the bell, made at intervals, during funerals.
61Knight, Joseph Phillip, an English writer of over 200 songs, best known of which is his "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep." He is a good organist. Born at Stratford-on-Avon, 1812. Was at one time a clergyman.
63Knorr, Julius, a German pianist, teacher, and writer about music, was born 1807 at Leipsic, and appeared in the Gewandhaus concerts with success, in the first Chopin piece ever played there. He was concerned with Schumann and Schunke in establishing the "New Journal of Music." Died June 1861.
65Koch, Henrich Christoph (kōk), was a laborious theorist and musical lexicographer. Born at Rudolstadt, 1749. Died 1816.
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