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Pronouncing dictionary and condensed encyclopedia of musical terms, instruments, composers and important works, 1880
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1Strauss, Jos., 1793-1866. Conductor in the service of the Grand Duke of Baden. Violinist and composer of operas, overtures and chamber music.
3Strauss, Johann, 1804-1849. Lived in Vienna, and is known the world over by his beautiful dance music. His sons, John, Joseph and Edward, are hardly less renowned for their productions in the same field. John, indeed, has also written comic operettas. His waltz, "On the Beautiful blue Danube," is the best known of his works.
5Streng (Ger. strēng). Strict, severe, rigid.
7Strepitoso (Ital. strēp-tō-tō-zō). Noisily, boisterously.
9Stretto (Ital. strāt-tō). Pressed, close, contracted. That part of a fugue where all the subjects come together, or where the imitations take place more rapidly after each other. A quicker passage leading to a close.
11Strict, severe, rigid.
13Stringed Instruments. Instruments whose sounds are produced by striking strings (as in the piano-forte or dulcimer), drawing them (as in the harp or guitar), or the friction of a bow (as in the violin family).
15Stringendo (Ital. strēn-jān-dō). Pressing, hurrying, accelerating the time.
17String Quartette, the violin family, consisting of violins, viola and 'cello. Music for these instruments. Also called "string band."
19Strophe, a stanza.
21Stueck (Ger. stück). Piece, air, tune.
23Sub (Lat. sūb). Under.
25Sub-bass, the low bass. The violon. A pedal stop in the organ. 16 ft.
27Subdominant, the fourth of the key.
29Subject, the leading idea of a work.
31Suite (Fr. swēt). A succession of pieces intended to be played in connection.
33Sul (Ital. sool). On, upon the.
35Sullivan, Arthur Seymour. Born 1842. He was a pupil of the Leipsic Conservatory, and is a talented and accomplished musician and composer. He has written works of considerable importance, including one or two oratorios, but is best known in this country by his comic operetta, "H. M. S. Pinafore," which had a most extraordinary run in 1879.
37Supertonic, the tone above the tonic, the second of the scale.
39Suppe, Franz von, was born in Dalmatia in 1820. He is a conductor in Vienna, and has composed operas, symphonies, quartettes, etc. Hs is best known by his comic operettas, of which "Fatinitza" and "The Beautiful Galatea" have been given in this country.
41Suspension, a dissonant tone held over from a preceding chord where it was consonant, and finally resolved (generally downwards) into some proper tone of the chord into which it had intruded.
43Svendsen, Johann Severin, was born in Christiana, Sweden, in 1840. He studied at the Leipsic Conservatory, and is a much admired and highly respected musician and composer. He has written admirable and original quartettes, symphonies and other works.
45Swell Organ, that division of the organ whose pipes are enclosed in a box with movable blinds, operated by a "swell-pedal," thus making crescendo and diminuendo.
47Symphony, the most important instrumental form, being, in fact, nothing but a large sonata for orchestra. See Chapters XV. and XVI.
49Symphonic Poem, an orchestral composition in symphonic style, but not strictly so.
51Syncopation, "a cutting into," a concealment of the measure accent, either by a false accent (accent on what would properly be an unaccented part of the measure), or by a prolongation of a tone out of a weak part of the measure past the moment when the accent should come.
53Taborowski, Stanislaw. Born 1830. Violin virtuoso. Studied in Brussels. Lives in Russia.
55Tace (Ital. tā'-tshē). Be silent. Indicates that certain instruments are not to play. Violini tacet, violins be silent, etc.
57Tact (Ger. täkt). Measure, time.
59Tallis, Thomas, one of the greatest English contrapuntists of the 16th century. Was an excellent organist.
61Tamberlik, Enrico, was born at Rome in 1820. One of the best tenor singers of our time. Taught singing in Madrid after 1867.
63Tambourine, a small instrument of the drum family, consisting of a wooden hoop with holes in the sides, in which are jingling pieces of metal, and a sheepskin head stretched on it.
65Tamburini, Anton, 1800-1876. A distinguished Italian bass singer. Sang in opera with Rubini, Lablache and others, and was their equal.
67Tamtam, an Indian instrument of percussion.
69Tansur, Wm. Born 1699. English contrapuntist and writer on music.
71Tanto (Ital. tān'-tō). So much, so great. Allegro ma non tanto, allegro, but not too much.
73Tantum Ergo (Lat. tān'-tūm ār-gō). A Latin hymn sung at the benediction in the Roman Catholic service.
75Tappert, Wm. Born 1830, in Silesia. Writer on music of great ability, and a strong Wagner partisan. Also teacher in Tausig's piano school in Berlin. Editor of "The Universal German Musical Journal" since 1878.
77Tarantella (Ital tār-rān-tāl'-lā). A swift, delirious sort of Italian dance in 6-8 time.
79Tardando (Ital. tār-dān'-dō). Lingering, retarding the time.
81Tartini, Giuseppe, 1692-1770. One of the very greatest violinists of the 18th century. He was the founder of a new school of violin playing, and of a new system of harmony. He was the discoverer of the so-called "Combination tones." He was also a most distinguished teacher, sought by pupils from all countries. He was also an excellent composer, and wrote over 200 concert pieces for his instrument, the best known of which is the still renowned "Devil's sonata."
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