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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1chamber organ
2chamber organ
3A small portable organ, either reed or otherwise, designed for use in a small room.
4chamber pitch or tone
5This is the pitch adopted by the Paris Académie in 1859 when A once accented (a'), that is, A on the second space of the treble staff, was fixed at 870 simple or 435 double variations per second. Equivalent to normal pitch.
6chamber style
7In the style of chamber music suitable to be played in chamber concerts.
8chamber voice
9A voice especially suited to performing chamber music.
10chamberga (chäm-bär'-gä) Spa. n.
11A Spanish dance, which is usually accompanied by song.
12change
131. The various arrangements and alternations of tones produced on a peal or set of bells tuned to the scale.
142. In harmony a change means a modulation, or in a composition a passing from one key to another.
153. In the voice, the change from the boy's to the man's voice.
16change, enharmonic
17A passage where the notation is changed but not the sound, and where the same keys of the instrument are used. This can be effected on an ordinary keyed instrument only, where intervals of less than a half tone can be ignored. For instance, if the phrase, A—B♭—C, were changed to A—A♯—C, on instruments like the piano, whereon there are only whole and half tones, the same note would represent B flat and A sharp, and the two phrases would sound alike.
18change ringing
19The art of ringing a peal of bells in a regularly varying order so as to produce every combination which the number of bells makes possible.
20changeable
21A name for chants which may be sung in either the major or minor mode of the key in which they are written. The major mode is that having an interval of a major third above the first note of the scale, and the minor mode is that having an interval of a minor third above the first note.
22changer de jeu (shäñ-zhā' dū zhŭ) Fr.
23To change the play: to change the registers or stops in an organ.
24chant
25changing-chord
26In ancient counterpoint, entering unaccented, and then skipping. In ancient counterpoint a chord that enters on an unaccented part of the measure, then transposes into another key more than a whole tone higher or lower.
27changing note
281. A name applied by theorists to those notes which do not form a part of the chords which they accompany, but which connect those chords and carry the ear more smoothly from one to another. They usually occur on the unaccented part of a bar.
292. A note which takes the place of a note in the chord and lies one degree above or below it.
303. Also, an auxiliary note from which the tones descend an interval of a third. The equivalent of passing note.
31channels
32In the organ the separate parts of the wind chest into which the air is pumped and stored, and by which the wind is conveyed to pipes. All the pipes belonging to one stop are placed over the same channel. The wind gains access to the channels by means of a channel valve.
33chanson (shäñ-sôñ) Fr. n.
34A song: originally a kind of ballad, now a vocal solo with piano accompaniment. Abbr. chans.
35chanson bachique (shäñ-sôñ bă-kēk') Fr.
36Bacchic songs: drinking songs.
37chanson de geste (shäñ-sôñ dŭ zhĕst) Fr.
38Songs of achievements: heroic poems. The romances and deeds of valor sung by the wandering minstrels of the Middle Ages, particularly in France.
39chanson des rues (shäñ-sôñ dā rü) Fr.
40Songs of the street: popular songs such as are heard at vaudeville or on the streets.
41chansonnette (shäñ-sôñ-nĕt') Fr.
42A little song; a short song; a popular part song.
43chansonnier (shäñ-sŭn-yā') Fr. n.
44A composer of songs and ballads.
45chant
46Originally the only interpretation of the word was song, a meaning which is retained in the French word. Since the time of Gregory the term has applied to all vocal music in which several syllables of the text are re-
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