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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1ballet
2ballet (bāl-lā') Fr. n.
31. An elaborate and spectacular dance given by specially trained dancers and introduced in an opera or other stage-piece.
42. A pantomimic production accompanied by music, in which the story is not only represented by gestures but by dances as well.
53. A light madrigal of the Sixteenth Century which was accompanied with dancing. It was characterized by the repetition of "fa la" at the end of each line and hence was also known as "a las."
64. The company of dancers of the ballet (corps de ballet).
7ballet master
8One who directs the rehearsals at the ballet. Also, one who arranges the plot of the ballet; that is, the story which the pantomime of the ballet is supposed to tell.
9ballett (bāl-lět') Ger. n.
10The same as ballet.
11ballette
12A ballet.
13balletti (bāl-lět-tē) It. n.
14Dance melodies.
15balletto (bāl-lět-tō) It. n.
16The name given by Bach to a moderately fast piece of music. A ballet or dance. A theatrical representation of a story by means of dancing and pantomime. A trivial kind of music that was both sung and danced.
17balli bāl'-lē) It. n.
18Dances.
19ballistia (bāl-lēs'-tē-ā) It. n.
20See ballematia.
21ballo (bāl'-lō) It. n.
22A dance or dance tune.
23ballo della stira (bāl'-lō děl'-lā stē'-rā) It.
24The Italian for Styrian dance. A dance with slow, even glide resembling the waltz and danced in Styria, a duchy of Austria.
25ballo ungherese (bāl'-lō oon-ghē-rā'-sē) It.
26Hungarian dances or dances in Hungarian style, in two-four time, syncopated; that is, with the accent on the part of the bar naturally unaccented.
27ballonchio (bāl-lōn'-kē-ō) It. n.
28An Italian dance not unlike the passepied.
29ballonzare (bāl-lōn-tsā-rē) It. v.
30To dance carelessly; to jump about. To dance recklessly, unmindful of rule.
31band
321. A number of musicians playing together upon portable musical instruments.
332. An orchestra.
343. More specifically, a company of musicians playing martial music.
354. That section of the orchestra playing upon instruments of the same class, as wind band, string band.
36Band (bānt) Ger. n.
37A binding, a volume, anything sewn together. Hence a book of musical writings.
38banda (bān'-dā) It. n.
39The Italian word for a musical band, or a band of musicians.
40Bande (bān'-dē) Ger. n.
41A company of wandering musicians.
42bande (bānd) Fr. n.
43Name given to the twenty-four violins in the royal court orchestra, especially during the reign of King Charles II. of France.
44bandelore (bān'-dě-lōr) n. origin obscure.
45bandola (bān-dō'-lā) Spa. n.
46bandolin (bān-dō-lēn') Spa. n.
47bandolore (bān'-dō-lōr) n., origin obscure.
48An instrument of the lute family, having a variable number of steel or gut strings plucked with a plectrum or the finger. In all important respects like the modern mandolin. Similar to the mandora, mandola, mandoer, mandura, mandurchen, pandora and pandura.
49bandonion (bān-dō'-nī-ăn)
50A kind of concertina invented in 1830 by Uhlig of Chemnitz and named after Heinrich Band of Crefeld. It had square keyboards instead of oblong or hexagonal.
51bandora (bān-dō'-rā) It. n.
52bandore (bān-dōr') Eng. n.
53bandura (bān-doo'-rā) It. n.
54See bandola.
55bandurria (bān-door'-rē-ā) Spa. n.
56A guitar having wire instead of gut strings.
57banjo
58The negro pronunciation of banjore, a corrupt form of bandore, which see. Also written banjer. An instrument supposedly descended from the African bania. It has a long neck which carries the finger-board and pegs which tighten the strings, and are a support for the body which consists of a circular part like a drum-head over which parchment is stretched. It has from five to nine strings stopped in the ordinary way except an octave string next the
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