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Pronouncing musical dictionary of technical words, phrases and abbreviations : including definitions of musical terms used by the ancient Hebrews…, 1875
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1BAMB
3Bambalina, Spa. (bām-bā-lē-nā.) The proscenium of an opera house.
4Band. A number of instrumental performers associated together for the purpose of playing in concert on their respective instruments.
5Banda, It. (bän-dä.) A band. one of two readings
6Banda, It. (bän-dā.) A band. one of two readings
7Band, brass. A band where only brass instruments are played.
8Band, chamber. A band whose performances consist only of chamber music.
9Band, choral. Orchestral performers.
10Band, full. Where all the instruments proper to a band are employed.
11Band, marine. A band located in a garrison or employed on ships of war.
12Band master. The leader or conductor of a band.
13Bandola, Spa. (bän-dō-lā.) An instrument resembling a lute.
14Bandóra, It. (bän-dō-rā.) An ancient stringed instrument of the lute or either species.
15Band, reed. A band with only reed instruments.
16Band, regimental. A band belonging to a regiment; a military band.
17Band, string. A band with only stringed instruments.
18Bandurría, Spa. (bän-door-rē-ā.) A species of Spanish guitar; a Bandóra.
19Banjo. A species of guitar and tambourine united, used by the negroes.
20Bänkelsänger, Ger. (bän-k'ł-säng-ër.) A ballad singer.
21Baqueta. Spa. (bä-kě-tā.)
22Baquetas del tambor, Spa. (bä-kě-tās děl tām-bōr.) Drumsticks.
23Baquico, Spa. (bä-kě-kō.) Bacchanalian.
24Bar. Lines drawn perpendicularly across the staff to divide it into small and equal portions; the term is also applied to each of these small and equal portions by European usage.
25Barbarism. In music it relates to false harmony or false modulation.
26Barbiton, Gr. (bär-bi-tōn.) A name formerly applied to the viol and violin.
27Barbitos, Lat. (bär-bi-tōs.) An ancient instrument of the lyre species.
28Barcaróla, It. (bär-kā-rō-lā.) A song or air sung by the Venetian gondoliers, or boatmen, while following their avocations.
29Barcaruola, It. (bär-kā-roo-ō-lā.) The song of the gondolier.
30Bard. A poet and singer among the ancient Celts. The bard was a person of great importance and received great attention from high and low.
31Bardd, Wel. (bärd.) A bard, a poet and musician.
32Bardd alan, Wel. (bärd ä-län.) A professor of music.
33Bardgan, Wel. (bärd-gän.) A song.
34Bardo, It. (bär-dō.) A bard among the ancient Celts.
35Bārdahí. (bär-dā-hē.) The Hindoo name for a bard.
36Bardóne, It. (bär-dō-nē.) See Bourdon.
37Bar, dotted double. A double bar with dots preceding it, shows that the music before it is to be repeated; the dots after the double bar show that the following music is to be repeated. Dots each side of the double bar show that both the preceding and following music are to be repeated.
38Bar, double. Heavy lines drawn across the staff to divide off different parts of the movement or show the end of the piece.
39Bardus, Cel. (bär-dūs.) A singer.
40Barem. A stopped register, of soft 8 or 16 feet tone, in German organs.
41Bari. An abbreviation of Baritone.
42Bari-basso. A deep baritone voice.
43Bariolage, Fr. (bär-lō-lāzh.) A passage for the violin, etc., in which the open strings are more especially used.
44Baripicni, Gr. (bū-ri-pēk-nē.) A term applied by the ancient Greeks to low tones in general.
45Baripicni suoni, It. (bā-rē-pēk-nē swō-nē.) Fixed sounds.
46Bari-tenor. The deeper sort of tenor voice.
47Bariton-elef. The F clef, placed upon the third line: now obsolete.
48Bariton, Fr. (bā-rī-tōn.) A male voice intermediate in respect to pitch between the bass and tenor, the compass usually extending from B flat to F.
49Baritono, It. (bär-rē-tō-nō.) Baritone.
50Barócco, It. (bā-rōk-kō.) A term applied to Baroque, Fr. (bā-rōk.) music in which the harmony is confused and abounding in unnatural modulations.
51Bärpfeife, Ger. (bär-pfī-fē.) Bear pipe; an obsolete reed stop of soft intonation.
52Barquarde, Fr. (bär-kār-dē.) An obsolete term for barcarolle.
53Barrage, Fr. (bär-rāzh.) See Barré.
54Barre, Fr. (bär.) A bar, in music.
55Barré, Fr. (bär-rā) In guitar playing, a temporary nut formed by placing the forefinger of the left hand across some of the strings.
56Barred C. C with a bar across it; one of the marks of common time, thus, 4/4.
57Barre de luth, Fr. (bär dūh loot.) The bridge of the lute.
58Barre de mesure, Fr. (bär dūh mē-zūr.) A bar-line.
59Barre de répétition, Fr. (bär dūh rā-pā-tē-sī-ōnh.) A dotted double bar; also, a thick line used as an abbreviation to mark the repetition of a group of notes.
60Barred semicircle. See Barred C; a character that denotes a quicker movement than the sign without a bar, and called alla breve, because it was formerly written with one breve in a measure.
61Barrel. The body of a bell.
62Barrel chime. The cylindrical portion of the mechanism sometimes used for the purpose of ringing a chime of bells.
63Barrel organ. An organ, the tones of which are produced by the revolution of a cylinder. The tunes are produced by an arrangement of pins and staples with which the cylinder is studded.
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