Scan 211
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1en serrant
2en serrant (ān sēr-rāñ') Fr.
3Quickening the time, usually suddenly.
4en voz (ēn-vōth) Spa.
5In voice.
6enarmonico (ēn-ār-mō'-nī-kō) It. adj.
7See enharmonic.
8enchainez (ān-shā-nā') Fr. v.
9Begin at once.
10enclavure du manche (än-klă-vūr' dü māñsh) Fr.
11Literally, enclosure of the neck: a space cut in the belly of the violin for the insertion of the neck.
12Ende (ēn'-dē) Ger. n.
13End; concluding piece.
14endecha (ēn-dā'-chā) Spa. n.
15A dirge.
16endechoso (ēn-dā-chōs'-sō) Spa. adj.
17Sorrowful; mournful.
18endymatia (ēn-dīm-ā'-shā) Grk.
19A class of sacred dances of ancient Greece. The dancers were clothed in very brilliant tunics and performed at private and public entertainments. Though these dances were at first sacred to the gods they lost in time much of their sacred character. Their origin is supposed to have been founded on the Egyptian dances and their style was grave and impressive.
20energia (ēn-ēr-jē'-ā) It. n.
21Energy; force.
22energicamente (ēn-ār-jī-kā-měn'-tē) It. adv.
23Energetically; forcibly. Abbr. eners.
24energique (ēn-ēr-zhēk') Fr. adj.
25Energetic; vigorous.
26energisch (ēn-ēr'-zhish) Ger. adj.
27Energetic; vigorous.
28enfant de chœur (ān-fāñ dū kūr') Fr.
29Choir-boy.
30enfasi (ēn-fā'-zē) It. n.
31Emphasis.
32enfaticamente (ēn-fā-tī-kā-měn'-tē) It. adv.
33Emphatically.
34enfatice (ēn-fā'-tī-kō) It. adj.
35Emphatic.
36enfiatamente (ēn-fē-ā'-tā-měn'-tē) It. adv.
37Proudly; ostentatiously.
38enfler (ān-flā') Fr. v.
39To increase the tone; to swell.
40eng (ēngk) Ger. adj.
41Narrow, close, compressed: said of (a) the stretto in fugue (b), narrow, straight organ-pipes.
42enge Harmonie (ēngk'-ē hār'-mō-nē') Ger.
43Close harmony: that is when the voice-parts lie close together.
45enharmonic
46Engelstimme (ēng'-ēl-shtim-mě) Ger. n.
47The German name for the vox angelica stop in the organ.
48Engführung (ēngk'-fūr-oongk) Ger. n.
49Literally, bringing closer: a name for the stretto in a fugue because the subject and answer are brought closer together.
50Englisch Violet (ēng'-lish fē-ō-lē't') Ger.
51A name given by Leopold Mozart to the viola d'amore. This instrument became very popular in England during the Eighteenth Century and the name "Viol" in German means both violet and viola. Furthermore, the especially soft voice doubtless carried with it a suggestion of the retiring qualities of the violet.
52englische Mechanik (ēng'-līsh-ē mā-khān-ēk') Ger.
53English action, applied to pianos.
54English concert pitch
55The pitch generally adopted in England, after some discussion, in 1896. According to this pitch A on the second space of the G clef has 439 double vibrations per second at a temperature of 68° Fahr. or 435 double vibrations per second at a temperature of 59° Fahr. This pitch has since been adopted by all musical bodies in England except the military bands.
56English fingering
57The system of marking piano-music, in which the notes for the thumb are designated by the sign X or + and the notes for the fingers by 1, 2, 3, 4. Sometimes called American fingering.
58English horn
59A meaningless name which has been given the alto oboe or cor anglais. The real name doubtless should be angle horn and is derived from the angle which the tubes of the older instruments described. The French adjectives "angle" meaning angle and "anglais" meaning English, having been confused. Now, however, the tube is straight.
60enguichure (ān-gē-shūr') Fr. n.
61The mouthpiece of a hunting horn.
62enharmonic
631. The early history of Greek music is enveloped in great obscurity and the earliest indications of a regular system are found in the little that can be discovered concerning the poet-musician, Olympus, who lived about 1400 B.C. It is comparatively certain that the Greeks had three kinds of scales,
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