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SA Dictionary Of Music, 1904
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1various items, so as to get a fitting opening and closing of the meeting, and to secure such arrangements as will fittingly lead up to the collection, the Bible reading, and the invitation to the unsaved to seek salvation. Pieces of one style should not prevail, nor should pieces of the same character follow in succession. All unnecessary display, moving about, turning over of music, and a noisy and fussy preparation of instruments for playing, should be avoided, and a spirit maintained from beginning to the close in agreement with the proper aims and character of Salvationists.
3Fiasco. (Ital.) Fecaskow. A bottle, but the idea associated with the term is rather the smashing of a bottle, and it is applied to any striking failure in musical performance.
5Fiddle. The old English word for the Violin. Fiddle-stick is the bow used for playing the instrument.
7Fife. The small size Flute is so called, and the word is also applied to the F and E♭ Piccolos as well as the B♭ Flute—the instruments employed in Drum-and-Fife Bands.
9Fifth. The interval which includes between the lower and the upper note five degrees of the Stave, or that which requires for showing its limits five successive letters of the alphabet, as C, D, E, F and G. There are three varieties of the fifth:—1. Perfect, which is divisible into seven semitones, as C to G. 2. Imperfect, divisible into six semitones, as C to G♭. 3. Augmented, divisible into eight semitones, as C to G♭. The first is a Perfect Consonant; the second and third are imperfect and dissonant. Successive perfect fifths between the same parts are not allowable in Harmony, see Consecutive Fifths. A perfect and an imperfect fifth in succession are allowed, provided the perfect fifth stands first.
11Figure. The smallest of members into which it is possible to analyse a musical thought, and it generally consists of a few notes only, but so arranged as to acquire some individuality of rhythm or progression, or both. At times only one note is used, and the effect is rhythmic by the repetition of the note with variation of time and accent, and such a member is often called a drum figure because it is such as a drummer can execute, as time alone is concerned. When several notes are employed the result is a melodic figure. When the effect depends upon the progression of chords the figure is harmonic.
131.—A drum or rhythmic figure. 2.—A melodic figure. 3.—A harmonic figure.
15Figured Bass. The system of representing harmony by figures, one or more of which are used to indicate each chord, and placed over or under a Bass part. To shorten the labour, a Bass note without figures is given when a common chord on that note is intended, and often other figures than those that are given are implied. The system is a sort of harmonic shorthand, and will be found illustrated in any text-book on Harmony.
17Finale. (Ital.) Feenaa-lai. The close or finish of a piece, or the last piece of a programme.
19Fine. (Ital.) Fee-nai. The end. The word is put at the place which is to be made the close of the performance of a piece, for in many instances it is not the end of the music as printed which is the actual finish, for from that point a return has often to be made to the beginning or an early portion of the piece,
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