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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1908
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1Concave pedals
2ment, radiating from the front to the rear and somewhat higher at the sides.
3concealed
4Hidden, supplied by the imagination but not expressed in the music itself. This word can best be explained by illustration. Thus, when C and then G are sounded, the notes D, E, and F are supplied by the imagination as the ear leaps from C to G. A singer for example sometimes slides his voice instead of attacking the upper note purely and firmly, in this case he sounds the intervening notes instead of concealing them. The words concealed and hidden are applied more particularly to hidden fifths and hidden octaves under which head they are explained.
5concerto (kôn-chên'-tô) It. n.
6Harmony, concord: the harmonious mingling of voices and instruments.
7concentual
8Harmonious, agreeing: pleasing to the ear. Obsolete.
9concentus (kôn-sên'-tûs) Eng. n. from the Lat.
101. Sounds blending harmoniously together, harmonious music, symphony.
112. A general name for music of more than one part.
12concert
131. The earliest meaning was, a union of various instruments playing in concert to one tune, then a set of the different instruments of one family playing together.
142. The modern meaning is a performance by capable musicians of a varied and miscellaneous program.
15concert (kôn-sâr) Fr. n.
16A concert, also, a concerto, or elaborate composition for solo instrument, commonly with orchestral accompaniment.
17concert grand pianoforte
18A grand piano of the largest size.
19concert pitch
20The pitch adopted by general consent for some chosen note from which all the other notes are tuned. This is not really any definite pitch but is the one adopted by various manufacturers because it is calculated to show off their instruments, and is very high. The French normal pitch is now generally adopted as concert pitch and is 435 double vibrations per second, for a', A in the second space of the treble staff.
21concertina
22concert spirituel (kôn-sâr spê-rê-tü-ël') Fr.
23Usually a concert from a program of miscellaneous instrumental and vocal pieces of sacred character. Sometimes, merely a concert of classical music.
24concertante (kôn-chêr-tän'-tê) It. n.
251. A female concert-singer.
262. A piece of orchestral music having solo parts, which are each in turn given prominence.
273. A composition for two or more solo instruments without orchestral accompaniment.
28concertante parts
29In orchestral music the parts for the solo instruments.
30concertante style
31A style of orchestral composition in which the soloist has an opportunity for brilliant display.
32concertate madrigali (kôn-chêr-tä'-tê mäd-ri-gä'-lê) It.
33Accompanied madrigals: madrigals having piano or organ accompaniment.
34concertate messa (kôn-chêr-tä'-tê mês'-sä) It.
35A concerted mass: a mass for several voices or instruments.
36concertato (kôn-chêr-tä'-tô) It. part. and adj.
37Music played in an irregular and impromptu style. Also equivalent to concertante.
38concerted
39As used in concerted music: music in which several parts are performed at once, in contrast to solo music, where only one part is heard at a time.
40concerted madrigal
41An accompanied madrigal.
42concerted music
43Music written in parts to be performed by two or more instruments or voices, as trios, quartets, sextets.
44concertina
45An improved accordion. A portable wind instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone and patented by him in 1829. It is hexagonal in shape and has bellows of varying number of folds closed at the end by keyboards. There are treble, tenor, bass and double bass concertinas varying in size and shape. The treble concertina is double action, that is, it produces the same note both on drawing and pressing the bellows, and it has a compass of four octaves.
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