Scan 259
The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1greifen
2to stop a note on a violin; to place the fingers on the holes in the wood-wind instruments.
3grel (grēl) Ger. adj.
4Shrill; penetrating; harsh.
5Grelheit (grēl′-hīt) Ger. n.
6Shrillness; sharpness.
7Griff (grīf) Ger. n.
8A grasp or touch, hence applied to music it means the fingering of an instrument.
9Griffbrett (grīf′-brēt) Ger. n.
10Literally, touch-board: the finger board; fret-board; keyboard.
11Griffloch (grīf′-lökh) Ger. n.
12Griff means touch, loch means hole: hence one of the keyholes in a flute and similar instruments.
13Griffsaite (grīf′-zī-tě) Ger. n.
14Literally, a touched string: that is a melody string which is pressed down upon the neck of an instrument to regulate its length and thus secure the various tones of a melody.
15grillig (grīl′-līkh) Ger. adj.
16Capricious; whimsical; fanciful.
17gringotter (grān-gō-tā) Fr. v.
18To warble; to chatter; to quaver.
19grisoller (grē-sō-lā) Fr. v.
20To warble; to sing like a lark.
21grobgedackt (grōp′-gē-dākht) Ger. adj.
22Compounded of the words meaning coarse and stopped and used in reference to those pipes of the organ which are stopped and of such a wide diameter as to make the tone coarse in effect.
23groove
24In the organ one of the channels along which the wind passes in its journey from the wind chest to the pipes. These channels are situated beneath the feet of the pipes.
25groppetto (grōp-pět′-tō) It. n.
26A turn or a trill. See also turn. Synonym of Gruppeto.
27groppo (grōp′-pō) It. n.
28A group of short notes tied together. Synonym of gruppo.
29grosfa (grō-fā) Fr.
30The name given to the old form of writing music in which the notes were not round, but square, oblong and diamond shaped; the difference in the shape indicated the time value of the note. Also called square notation.
31gros tambour (grō tān-boor′) Fr.
32Literally, large drum: bass drum.
33gross (grōs) Ger. adj.
34Large, great. When applied to intervals it means major.
35Grossvatertanz
36grossartig (grōs-zār′-tēg) Ger. adj.
37Magnificent; grand; noble.
38grosse caisse (grōs kēs) Fr.
39Same as gros tambour.
40Grosse Nazard (grōs′-sē nā – tsārd′) Ger. n.
41An organ stop tuned a fifth above the principal stops.
42grosse Quinte (grōs′-sē kvēn′-tē) Ger.
43An organ stop composed of pipes connected with the pedals and producing tones the interval of a fifth higher than the ordinary pitch of the corresponding pedals of the keyboard.
44grosse tierce (grōs′-sē tēr′-sē) Ger. and Fr.
45Grosse means great or major, and tierce is French for third. The interval of a major third; an interval of two whole tones.
46Grosses Principal (grōs′-sēs prin-tsī-pāl′) Ger. n.
47A large open diapason stop. One composed of pipes possessing great length and producing tones of deep pitch.
48grosses Quintenbass (grōs′-sēs kvēnt′-ēn-bās) Ger.
49Same as grosse Quinte.
50Grossgedackt (grōs-gē-dākht′) Ger. n.
51Literally, double covered: an organ stop composed of pipes which are covered at the top and whose lowest tone is two octaves below middle C, a pitch an octave lower than the ordinary pitch of the principal stops of the organ, hence this stop accompanies or doubles the stop of higher pitch, and receives the name double-covered.
52Grossenasart (grōs′-sē-nā-zārt′) Ger. n.
53Meaning great and nasal and applied to any organ stop whose pipes produce tones a fifth higher than the tones ordinarily signified by the keys which sound them.
54grosso (grōs′-sō) It. adj.
55Great; grand; full.
56Grossvatertanz (grōs – fā – tēr – tänts) Ger.
57The grandfather dance. An old German family dance very popular in the Seventeenth Century and still danced in Germany at the present day. The words sung to the dance tell how simple life was "when grandfather took grandmother to be his bride, then no one thought of borrowing foreign words and manners, especially from the French, then a man's handshake was his oath, and then the wife loved her home and her family." It is three-four time and the
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