Scan 196
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1dotted touch
2sharply defines the rhythm when a dotted note is followed by a much shorter note.
3Double
4As a noun:
51. A repetition, as of words in singing.
62. A variation; found in works by Handel and other old composers. In this sense the term is obsolete.
73. An operatic singer, who sings one part and is prepared to sing other parts on short notice; an understudy.
84. In organ-playing, a sixteen-foot stop; considered as doubling, i. e., sounding an octave lower than the eight-foot stops of normal pitch whose lowest tone is the second C below middle C.
9As a verb:
101. To play in octaves, a part written in single notes.
112. Doubling of the parts in an orchestral score is assigning the same part to more than one instrument.
12As an adjective:
131. Doubled, paired.
142. Repeated an octave higher or lower, or in another instrument.
153. In compounds with nouns it is used to indicate an instrument or tones an octave lower in pitch, e. g., double bass, double bassoon.
16double (doo-bl) Fr. adj. and n.
171. Double.
182. An obsolete turn: a musical embellishment indicated by the sign
19placed over or after the principal note,
20double A or AA
21According to the German reckoning, generally accepted as a standard, the A on the third added line below the bass staff. The English organists have a different standard which places double A an octave higher, or on the first space of the bass staff. See also double letters.
22double-action harp
23A harp having for each note of the natural scale a corresponding pedal, which when depressed to its first position, raises the pitch of the strings attached to it a semitone, and when depressed to its second position raises them another semitone. Thus the pedal for the note D, when depressed once, raises all the D strings to D sharp. This harp is the one now in common use for concerts and orchestral performances.
24double after-note
25Union of two small notes occurring on an unaccented part of the measure, the time of which is deducted from that of the note preceding them.
26double appoggiatura (äp-pôd-jä-too'-rä) It.
27An ornament consisting of two small grace notes, usually sixteenth notes, before the principal note; it is played rapidly, its duration being subtracted from the time value of the principal note, and the accent falling on the first small note.
28Written
29Played
30double backfall
31See backfall.
32double bar
33Two vertical strokes drawn across the staff and terminated by its outer lines, indicating: (a) the end of a piece; (b) the end of an entire movement; (c) the beginning of a change of key, or of time; (d) in connection with a row of dots, a repetition of part of the music; see also repeat; (e) a separation between two sections of a movement. In cases such as (b), (c) and (d) it is often found in the middle of a measure. Where a mere separation of parts is indicated, the lines forming the double bar are thin; where the end of a piece or of a well-defined movement, they are thick.
34double bass
35The largest and deepest toned of the stringed instruments played with a bow, and of this class second only to the violin in importance as an orchestral instrument. Because of its very low range, music is written for it an octave higher than it is played. Its name doubtless originated from its frequent use in doubling A, that is, repeating an octave lower the part played by the violoncello.
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