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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1copula
22. A codetta, or phrase, connecting two parts of a fugue.
3cor (kôr) Fr. n.
4Horn. Commonly, the French horn.
5cor-alt (abbr. for corno alto. It.)
6The horn of the highest pitch in B flat. See also corno alto.
7cor anglais (kôr än-glē') Fr.
8English horn: a large sized double reed instrument, such as the tenor oboe. The music for this instrument is written in the key of C but the instrument actually plays the interval of a fifth lower than it is written. Its range of tone is from E below middle C to B flat two and a half octaves higher. Its music is written in G clef. The name is misleading, for the instrument is by no means an English product and anglais is supposed to refer to the angle or bend that formerly appeared in the tube. Now the tube is straight throughout its length. The cor anglais is an important orchestral instrument.
9cor basse (kôr-bās') Fr. n.
10The bass horn. See corno basso.
11cor de basset (kôr dū bās-sā') Fr.
12Basset horn. The obsolete alto or tenor clarinet, having a beautiful tone. It produces the notes the interval of a fifth below the pitch they are written in.
13cor de chasse (kôr dū shās) Fr.
14Hunting horn. The large horn whose tube is bent to form a circle of about one and a half turns. Equivalent to Jagdhorn (Ger.), and corno di caccia (It.).
15cor de nuit (kôr dū nū-ē') Fr.
16The cremona stop of an organ.
17cor de postillon (kôr dū pōs-tēl-yōñ) Fr.
18Postillon's horn: a horn sounded by the postillon of a coach on entering or leaving a town.
19cor de signal (kôr dū sēn-yāl') Fr.
20Bugle used to give military signals.
21cor de vaches (kôr dū vāsh') Fr.
22Herdman's horn, used to call cattle.
23cor omnitonique (kôr ôm-nē-tō-nēk') Fr.
24The chromatic horn, that is, a horn having valves or keys that produce half tones.
25corale (kō-rā'-lē) It. n.
26A choral, a hymn tune in simple and dignified style.
27coranach (kōr'-ā-nākh) Eng. n. from the Gaelic
28From the Gaelic co, together, and ranach, a shrieking or weeping.
30corde à vide
31A funeral song or dirge chanted by the bard of a clan on the death of his chief, and accompanied by the harp and the wailing of women. It had no religious significance but merely celebrated the genealogy, deeds and virtues of the deceased. The coranach was sung for people of all classes because of the belief that its omission caused the soul to wander bewailing its fate. In modern Scotland this name has been given to the pibroch played by the bagpipers who lead the funeral procession. The ancient Irish also had a sort of coranach or funeral dirge.
32coranto (kō-rān'-tō) It. n.
33Literally, to run.
341. An old French dance, in three-two time. It was moderately rapid in time and began with an eighth note at the end of the bar; it had a large number of dotted notes and required a staccato execution. It consisted of two strains or parts, both repeated and in the old coranto the last bar of each part had six quarter notes to a measure. In old French dance suites it took second place, and followed the allemande.
352. Coranto is also the name of a movement in old suites and sonatas. Synonymous with courant, courante and corrente.
36corda (kōr'-dā) It. n.
37A string used in such directions as una corda, one string, which means use soft pedal on the piano, and tre corda, which means that the soft pedal must no longer be pressed down.
38cordatura (kōr-dā-too'-rā) It. n.
39The method by which the strings of instruments are tuned; the scale, or the notes of a particular chord, to which the strings are tuned. The violin cordatura is G, D, A, E. The same as accordatura (It.) and accord (Fr.).
40corde (kōrd) Fr. n.
41Cord, string: the string of a musical instrument.
42corde à boyau (kōrd ā bwā-yō') Fr.
43Catgut. Gut strings for harp, violin and other stringed instruments.
44corde à jour (kōrd ā zhōor') Fr.
45corde à vide (kōrd ā vēd) Fr.
46Literally, a string: on instruments of the violin family the name given an open string in playing, that is, a string upon which the fingers do not press to change its pitch.
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