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Pronouncing dictionary of musical terms, giving the meaning, derivation, and pronunciation … of Italian, German, French, and other words; the names with date of birth and death and nationality of the leading musicians of the last two centuries; English vocabulary, with equivalents in Italian, Germ, 1896
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1Tempo ordinario. Ordinary; usual.
2Tempo primo. First time, used after a retard. or accel. to indicate a return to the original time. one of two readings
3Tempo primo. First time, used after a ritard. or accel. to indicate a return to the original time. one of two readings
4Tempo rubato. See Rubato.
5Tempo wie vorher (Ger.). Same as Tempo primo.
6Temps (Fr.) (tam). (1) Time. (2) Beat.
7Temps faible or levé. Weak beat; up beat.
8Temps fort or frappé. Strong beat; down beat.
9Tendrement (Fr.) (tondr-mong). Tenderly.
10Tenendo il canto (It.). Sustaining the melody.
11Teneramente (It.) (teh-neh-ra-men'-teh). Tenderly; delicately.
12Tenerezza (It.) (teh-neh-ret'-za), con. With tenderness, delicacy.
13Tenero (It.) (teh'-neh-ro). Tender; delicate.
14Tenor, Tenore (It.), Taille or Ténor (Fr.). (1) The highest natural male voice. (2) In the old system of music, the cantus or plain song. (3) A common name for the viola. The word tenor is supposed to be derived from Lat., teneo, to hold, as it held the melody.
15Tenor Clef. C clef on 4th line.
16Tenor Violin. Viola.
17Tenore buffo. A comic tenor singer.
18Tenore di grazia. A "smooth-singing" tenor singer.
19Tenore leggiero. A light tenor singer.
20Tenore robusto. A vigorous, strong tenor singer.
21Tenorino (It.) (ten – o – ree'-no). "Little tenor." Falsetto tenor.
22Tenorist. A tenor singer; also viola player.
23Tenoroon. (1) See Oboe di caccia. (2) Any organ-stop of 8-foot tone that does not go below middle C.
24Tenuto (It.) (teh-noo'-to). Abbreviated Ten. Hold; a direction to sustain the notes for their full value. Sign 𝅘𝅥.
25Tepidita (It.) (teh-pee'-dee-ta), con. With indifference.
26Tepiditamente (It.) (teh-pee-dee-ta-men'-teh). Coldly; lukewarmly.
27Tercet. (Fr.) (tehr-say). A triplet.
28Ternary Form. Rondo with three themes.
29Ternary Measure. Simple triple time.
30Tertian. A two-rank stop, sounding the major 3d and 5th in the third octave above the fundamental.
32Telemann, G. P. (teh'-leh-man). Composer, organist; Germany. b. 1681; d. 1767.
34Terz (Ger.) (terts), (It.) Terza. Third.
35Terzetto (It.) (tert-set'-to). A vocal trio.
36Terzflöte (Ger.). (1) A flute sounding a 3d above the written notes. (2) An organ stop sounding the major 3d in third octave.
37Tessitura (It.) (tes-see-tu'-rah). Texture. The general range of the voice included in a given song, etc.
38Testo (It.) (tehs'-to). Text. (1) The "words" of any vocal composition. (2) The theme or subject.
39Tetrachord [from Gr., tetra, chordon]. Four strings; hence, a succession of four sounds. The tetrachord always consists of two whole tones and one half-tone. These intervals may be arranged in three ways. The oldest arrangement, called the Pythagorean tetrachord, began with the half-tone, thus:—
41It is generally supposed that the original four-string lyre (called the tetrachordon) was tuned to these sounds. The addition of another tetrachord, beginning with the highest note of this one, gives the scale of the heptachord, or seven-string lyre, thus:—
43This is called the scale of conjunct tetrachords, the A being the note common to both. The addition of a note below this scale, thus:—
45gives the original octave scale of the lyre. This scale is the normal Greek scale, called the Dorian. It is doubtless the origin of the modern minor scale. The tetrachord known as Hucbald's had the half-tone in the middle, thus: D E F G.
47The Hexachord scales (q. v.) were formed from this tetrachord by adding one letter above and one below, thus:—
49C D E F G A.
51In the modern major scale the half-tone lies between the third and fourth letters of the tetrachord, thus: C D E F, and the scale consists of two of these tetrachords separated by a whole tone.
53Terschak, Ad. Composer, flutist; Germany. B. 1832.
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