Scan 118
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1cavare il suono
2all the tone of which the instrument is capable.
3cavata (kä-vä'-tä) It. n.
41. A short song, sometimes preceded by recitative.
52. An air or strain dramatic in character.
63. The act of producing tone from a musical instrument.
7cavatina (kä-vä-tē'-nä) It. n.
8cavatine (kä-vä-tēn') Fr. n.
9A short air: an air of one strain only. An air of simple and expressive character shorter than an aria and sometimes preceding it. Also, a short song of any description. Beethoven gave this name to the second movement of his B flat quartet. A smooth, melodious air forming part of a grand scena or movement.
10cebèll one of two readings
11cebelle one of two readings
121. A name given to an obsolete musical form, which consisted of a principle theme with variations. Its characteristics were the sudden alternation of high and low notes and the fact that it was usually in common time, that is, four quarters notes to a measure.
132. Purcell and other English writers used this name for the dance form now known as the gavotte.
143. It was also the name of compositions for violin or lute.
15Cecelia, St.
16A young Roman noblewoman who lived about 229 A. D., and is looked upon as patron-saint of music.
17cecilium (sū-sē-lē-uñ') Fr. n.
18A peculiar free reed and keyboard instrument invented by Quantin de Crousard and exhibited in Paris in 1867. It was the shape and about the size of the violoncello and was held in the same position. It has reeds acted upon by keys pressed by the left hand and supplied by wind from bellows worked by the right hand by means of a handle like a bow. The cecilium a compass of about five octaves; and the tone was sweet and sonorous.
19cédez (sā-dā) Fr. v.
20A direction, meaning to go slower, also to follow the voice, to decrease the volume of sound.
21ceja (thā'-hā) Spa. n.
22In stringed instruments the bridge on which the strings rest.
23célamustel (sā-lā-mū-stēl') Fr. n.
24A kind of reed organ having fundamental or principal stops similar to
25(no line here) one of two readings
27celestial music
28those of the harmonium and also additional parts, such as bells, harp, echo, thunder, dove and cuckoo notes and other sounds.
29célébrer (sā-lā-brā) Fr. v.
30To sing, to celebrate, to praise.
31celeramente (chā-lā-rā-mēn'-tē) It. adv.
32Swiftly, in haste, fast: a direction, meaning to be performed swiftly.
33celere (chā'-lā-rē) It. adj.
34Quick: quick in tempo.
35celeridad (thā-lā-rī-dād') Spa. n.
36Celerity, velocity, rapidity of music.
37celerita (chā-lā-rī-tā') It. n.
38Celerity, swiftness, speed, as in the direction, con celerita, to be rendered with speed.
39celerité (sā-lā-rē-tā) Fr. n.
40Celerity. See celerita.
41celesta
42A keyboard instrument of the harmonica type, invented by Auguste Mustel, of Paris, in 1886, and by French composers substituted for carillon in the orchestra. Steel bars suspended over resonating boxes of wood are struck with hammers by an action similar to that of the piano. It has a compass of five octaves upward from the C on the second space of the bass clef and its tone is exquisitely pure and clear. As an orchestral instrument it is used by many modern French composers and was even employed by Tchaikowsky.
43céleste (sā-lēst') Fr. adj.
441. Celestial or heavenly and applied to such organ stops as produce a soft, sweet tone.
452. Also used as the name of a piano pedal producing a like effect.
46celestial music
47The music of the spheres. This refers to the ancient supposition that the movements of the heavenly bodies produced a harmony imperceptible to human ears. Pythagoras supposed these motions to conform to fixed laws expressed in numbers corresponding to the numbers which give harmony of sound. The seven planets give the seven notes of the scale. Plato in his Republic says a siren sits on each planet and carols a sweet song which agrees with the tone of her own sphere and harmonizes with that of the others. This belief in the music of the spheres has been repeatedly mentioned in literature from the earliest times, as in Job we find, "When the morning stars sang
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