Scan 121
The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
59 lines. Read by computer on 11 September 2026. Printed page 99. See the scan on archive.org.
1chatzozerah
2cation of the Hebrew word, mikshah (rounding), used in describing this instrument, some authorities claiming that it refers to the bell-shaped end, and others that it means a complete curve in the tube of the instrument.
4chaunt
5A simple melody, usually written in four parts, to which were set portions of the Scriptures or forms for the celebration of the mass. Some of the words were recited at pleasure and others sung in strict time. See also chant.
7chaunter
8An obsolete form of the word chanter. In the bagpipe this term is used as the name of that pipe by means of which the melody is produced. It is furnished with a beating reed and with several fingerholes, making it possible to sound a variety of tones in contrast to the drones, which are pipes without fingerholes and can each produce but a single tone.
10che (kā) It. conj.
11Than: as used in the direction, poco piu che allegretto, a little faster than allegretto, or moderately fast time.
13che (kā) Chin. n.
14An instrument used at religious or imperial ceremonies in China. The body is carved from wood and is five or six feet long and about two feet wide, with a convex surface. Twenty or more silk strings are stretched from end to end and are plucked with the finger-tips.
16che chi (kā kē) Chin.
17One of the eight species into which Chinese musical sounds are divided.
19chearentana (kē-ä-rēn-tä'-nä) It. n.
20A rustic dance of Italy.
22check
23A part of the action of the piano. It is an upright of thick wire ending in a spade-shaped head of leather. In grand pianos it is fixed at the back part of the key, behind the hammers, but in upright pianos it is placed before the hammer. Its duty is to catch the hammer as it falls from the string after having struck it. The check releases the hammer when the weight of the finger is removed from the key.
25check, pedal
26See pedal check.
28chef (shěf) Fr. n.
29Chief, head: the leader, the chief person, the head.
31cherubical hymn
32chef d'attaque (shěf dät-tăk') Fr.
33The leader of an orchestra, the principal first-violin player or sub-conductor who should be able to lead the orchestra if required; the leader of a chorus or division of a chorus.
35chef-d'oeuvre (shā-dūvr') Fr.
36A masterpiece: the most important of an author's compositions.
38chef-d'orchestre (shěf-dôr-kěstr') Fr.
39The leader or conductor of an orchestra.
41chef du chant (shěf dü shāñ) Fr.
42The leader of an opera chorus.
44chelidonize
45From a Greek word, meaning to twitter like a swallow. In the month Boedroman, Rhodian boys sang a popular song called the swallow song on the return of that bird, and made it the occasion of begging.
47chelidonizing
48Singing a swallow song, or a spring song.
50chelys (kěl'-īs) Eng. n. from the Grk.
51A tortoise. The lyre of Mercury is fabled to have been a tortoise shell with strings stretched over its hollow. During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries this name was given to both bass viol and division viol.
53cheng (chěng)
54The Chinese mouth-organ which on its introduction into Europe led to the invention of the accordion and harmonium. Its windchest is a gourd to which the wind is supplied by a short, curving tube blown on by the mouth. Into the gourd are fixed from twelve to twenty-four free reed pipes enclosed in tubes and having holes that must be stopped to make a sound. Kratzenstein, an organ builder of St. Petersburg, applied this principle to organ stops.
56cherubical hymn
571. In the liturgy of the Greek Church, the hymn sung at the Great Entrance or the procession of the Eucharistic elements which are carried from the prothesis (the space adjoining the sanctuary on the north side and containing the table on which are prepared the Sacramental bread and wine) through the body of the church to the bema or sanctuary. This ceremony was probably introduced into the service by Justinian in the Sixth Century.
582. Cherubical is a term sometimes used for the Seraphic hymn of the Roman Church, i.e., the Sanctus or
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.