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SA Dictionary Of Music, 1904
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1is drawn out. Each Stop has a name, and, as a rule, this is put on the front of the knob for the guidance of the player.
3Stopping, Double. STOPPING in the playing of string instruments means the pressure of a finger of the left hand so as to bring a string into contact with the FINGER-BOARD; DOUBLE STOPPING means the use of two fingers at the same time on different strings, so as to produce two sounds by the same stroke of the Bow. (See DOUBLE STOPPING.)
5Strad. A contraction of the name Stradivarius, applied to Italian Violins and other string instruments made by one or another member of the family of famous Italian string instrument makers who bore that name.
7Stradivarius, Antonius. The most celebrated of the family of Violin makers who bore that name. He was born at Cremona, in Italy, in 1649 or 1650, and died December, 1737. He brought the art of Violin making to perfection, and no improvements of any great value have been made since his day. There are some 200 of his Violins known to exist at the present day, and the best of them are valued at from £500 to £1,000 each. So great is his fame that subsequent makers have worked according to his model, and hundreds of thousands of Violins exist labelled as copies of Stradivarius' instruments, but which in most cases are worth only as many pence as the originals are worth pounds.
9Strict Counterpoint. The art of writing two or more parts without the use of unprepared discords. The chief rules governing the art are:—
101. One Perfect Concord may proceed to another either by Contrary or Oblique Motion, but not by Similar Motion.
112. A Perfect Concord may proceed to an Imperfect Concord by any one of the three kinds of motion.
123. An Imperfect Concord may proceed to a Perfect Concord either by Contrary or Oblique Motion, but not by Similar Motion.
134. An Imperfect Concord may proceed to another by any one of the three kinds of motion.
15There are reckoned Five Orders or ways of writing Counterpoint. The First is where the Counterpoint is note for note of the same value as the Canto-Fermo, which is the name given to the chief melody, the one accepted as the foundation for the contrapuntal writing. The Second is where the counterpoint has two notes to each one of the Canto-Fermo. The Third is that of four notes against one. The Fourth is that where the counterpoint moves in syncopations. The Fifth is called Florid Counterpoint, and arises from a mixture of the previous Orders. A number of rules govern the writing in each Order, which will be found in any textbook on the subject, but they are too numerous to find a place here. Although the study of Counterpoint is very largely an intellectual task, resembling in many respects mathematical work, it is a study of the greatest value for the proper training of a composer, for it is by this means that skill in the writing of parts can be most successfully obtained.
17String. Slender lengths of gut, silk, and metal, as of brass and steel, are used on musical instruments, and when stretched at the required tension by the turning of pegs or pins, the strings are made to vibrate by being struck, plucked, or by the drawing of a Bow across them. In dealing with the Orchestra, the Strings is used as a term for all the string instruments. The word STRING is used in conjunction with several others, as STRING BAND, meaning one composed mainly of string instruments of the Violin family; STRING QUARTETTE and STRING Trio are names for compositions for four or three string instruments, as the case may be.
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