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SA Dictionary Of Music, 1904
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1best means are to be obtained for training the mind in the skilful making of parts. Counterpoint is divided into strict and free, or student's and composer's Counterpoint, the first meaning a manner of writing marked by the close observance for educational ends of the old rules; the second, the less restricted labour of actual composition according to modern and recognised practice.
3Cremona. A town in Italy, on the river Po, made famous throughout the world for the Violins and similar string instruments made there by the following, among other makers, whose work has not been rivalled—A. Stradivari, A. Guarnerius, his sons Joseph and Peter, and the various members of the Amati family. These great makers did their work between 1550 and 1750. A single Cremona Violin fetches to-day as much as £1,000.
5Crescendo. (Ital.) Kraishen-doa. Gradually louder; the sign < is also used with the same meaning. The word is mostly contracted to cresc.
7Crook. A piece of tubing for fixing on brass instruments to change the pitch by increasing or lessening the total length of tubing of the instruments.
9Crotchet. The note formed f, in value the 4th of a semibreve, and so called in many modern text books a quarter note.
11Cue. A passage, as a rule, but extending to a phrase in length, put in a part, usually in small notes, not for the player to render, but by indicating what one or more of the prominent instruments are doing at that point, to enable him to make a right entry after a rest.
13Cymbals. A pair of metal plates, circular in form, hollowed out in the centre, on the outside of which straps are put, into which the hands are placed so as to bring the free part of the plates together. The plates are brought together more in a rubbing movement than by a direct clashing of one on the other, so that the hands move in opposite directions when bringing the plates into contact. The metal is an alloy of eighty parts of copper, to twenty of tin. Turkish Cymbals have gained a reputation. The part for the Cymbals is almost always the same as the Bass Drum, and their use is mainly in marches or music of a martial character.
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17D. The second note in the natural scale of C. The name of the major scale having two sharps (F# and C#), as its signature, and of the minor scale having one flat (Bb) as its signature.
19Da. (Ital.) Daa. From.
21Da Capo. (Ital.) Dau'kaa-poa. From the head or beginning, an indication for repeating the music from the opening of the piece.
23Dactyl. Dak'til. A foot in poetry and music consisting of one long or accented syllable or note, followed by two short or unaccented syllables or notes.
25Dash. The mark !, which when placed over a note indicates that the shortest and most detached rendering is to be given (see STACCATISSIMO).
27Decrescendo. (Ital.) Dau'kraishen-doa. Gradually lessening in force.
29Degree. A line or space of the stave.
31Degrees of Force. These in music vary from the softest to the loudest possible rendering of sounds, but from one extreme to the other it is to be understood that tone quality is never to deteriorate, as when a thin, husky tone, for instance, is given by a learner when seeking to play very soft on a wind instrument, or a coarse, harsh, and unresonant tone when an attempt is made at playing
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