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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1908
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1abbadara
2abbadara (äb-bä-dä'-rä) It. v.
3Take care: give attention.
4abbandonasi (äb-bän-dö-nä'-zē) It. adv.
5Unrestrainedly: with natural emotion.
6abbandonatamente (äb-bän-dö-nä'-tä-měn'-tē) It. adv.
7Desperately; hopelessly: without regard to time. Same as con abbandono.
8abbandone (äb-bän-dö'-nē) It.
9Indicates that the passage is to be rendered despondingly: with feeling, abandoning one's self to emotion and making the time subservient to the expression.
10abbandonevolmente (äb-bän-dö-ně-vōl-měn'-tē) It. adv.
11Violently: regardless of time. Synonym of abbandonatamente.
12abbandono (äb-bän-dö'-nō) It. n.
13Abandoning of time, to suit impassioned expression: usually used with the preposition con, thus being equivalent to the French avec abandon.
14abbassamento di mano (äb-bäs'-sä-měn'-tō dē mä'-nō) It.
15Lowering of the hand. When used to designate the downward movement of the hand in beating time the abbreviation is a. di mano, but in piano music it is abbreviated abb. and shows which hand crosses over in playing. Abbr. abb., a. di mano.
16abbassamento di voce (äb-bäs-sä-měn'-tō dē vō'-chē) It.
17Lowering of the voice: by diminution of volume. Abbr. abb., a. di voce.
18abbattimento (äb-bät-ti-měn'-tō) It. n.
19The down-beat or lowering of the hand in conducting.
20abbellare (äb-běl-lä'-rē) It. v.
21To embellish a simple melody with ornaments. This word is not so much used as abbellire, of which it is a synonym.
22abbellimenti (äb-běl-li-měn'-tē) It. n.
23Embellishments; ornaments.
24abbellimento (äb-běl-li-měn'-tō) It. n.
25An embellishment; ornament; grace note.
26abbellire (äb-běl-lě'-rē) It. v.
27To beautify: adorn with ornaments.
28abbellitura (äb-běl-li-too'-rā) It. n.
29An embellishment. Synonym of abbellimento.
30abbelliture (äb-běl-li-too-rē) It. n.
31Ornaments; embellishments.
32abbetont (äp'-bā-tōnt) Ger. adj. or adv.
33With final accent: in ecclesiastical chanting it is applied to the last form of modulation used in parts sung by the priest or his assistants. Synonym of inbetont (Ger.).
34abblasen (äp'-blā-zěn) Ger. v.
35To blow a horn; to flourish a trumpet; sound a retreat.
36abbreviamenti (äb-brā-vī-ä'-měn'-tē) It. n.
37Abbreviations used in the notation of music. See table of abbreviations.
38abbreviare (äb-brā-vī-ä'-rē) It. v.
39To shorten the notation of music by means of abbreviations.
40a-b-c-dieren (ä-bā-tsā-dē'-rēn) Ger. v. and n.
411. To use C D E F G A B C, the letter names of the notes, in singing an exercise, instead of the do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, a system called solmization, or any other method of naming the notes. This is a practise common among elementary pupils in Germany.
422. The name of the above method employing the alphabetical system.
43Abendglocke (ä-běnt-glōk'-ě) Ger. n.
44Evening bell: curfew.
45Abendlied (ä-běnt-lět) Ger. n.
46Evening song or hymn.
47Abendmusick (ä'-běnt-moo-zěk') Ger. n.
48Evening music: a serenade.
49Abendständchen (ä'-běnt-shtěnt'-khěn) Ger. n.
50Evening serenade.
51abenteuerlich (ä'-běn-toi-ěr-likh) Ger. adj.
52Literally, adventuresome: hence strange, uncouth. A term applied to unrecognized forms of music.
53abfallen (äp'-fäl-lěn) Ger. v.
54To fall off, decrease, deteriorate: applied to a part of the register of a voice or instrument in which the quality or volume of the tone is poorer than in the rest of the compass, as in the low notes of a soprano voice or the high notes of a contralto.
55abgebrochene Kadenz (äp'-gě-brōkh-ěn-ě kä'-děnts) Ger.
56Broken off cadence: a term which has replaced cadenza d'inganno. It means that the natural ending of the cadence for which the ear has been prepared by a chord built on the dominant is interrupted. After the chord of the dominant the ear is satisfied only by the chord of the tonic as an ending, and when some other chord comes instead it changes the progression of the harmony and delays and at times avoids the final close. The interrupted cadence has often been used by great musicians from Beethoven
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