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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1908
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1accompaniment
2servient to the chief part so as not to obscure it but to make it appear to the best advantage. One instrument or several or a chorus of voices may carry the accompaniment. Abbr. acc., accom., accomp.
4accompaniment ad libitum (ăd lĭb-ĭ-tŭm) Lat.
5An accompaniment which adds to the effect of the piece, but may be omitted if desired. Abbr. accom. ad lib.
7accompaniment obbligato (ôb-blĭ-gä'-tō) It.
8A necessary accompaniment attending the voices or instruments bearing the principal part or parts of a musical composition. Sometimes given the importance of a solo part. Abbr. accom. oblto.
10accompaniment of the scale
11The series of chords which begin on the successive notes of the ascending or descending scale.
13accoppiato (äk-kŏp-pĭ-ä'-tō) It. adj.
14Coupled; tied: joined by a brace.
16accord a l'ouvert (ăk-kôr-dă-loo-vĕr) Fr.
17A chord played on the open strings of a violin, guitar or other stringed instrument, the strings in their natural or unstopped position not being pressed against the neck of the instrument with the fingers. Also the accordatura, or notes to which the open strings are tuned.
19accordamento (ăk-kôr-dă-mĕn'-tō) It.
21accordanza (ăk-kôr-dăn'-tsä) It.
22Accord: agreement in sound; consonance; harmony.
24accordare (ăk-kôr-dă'-rĕ) It. v.
25To tune: to be in tune. Equivalent of accorder (Fr.) and accordiren (Ger.).
27accordatoio (ăk-kôr-dă-tō'-yō) It. n.
28A tuning hammer or key.
30accordatore (ăk-kôr-dă-tō'-rĕ) It. n.
31Tuner: one who tunes instruments.
33accordatura (ăk-kôr-dă-too'-ră) It. n.
34Accord; consonance: harmony of parts. Also the notes to which the strings of a string instrument are tuned. Equivalent of accord (Fr.).
36accorder (ăk-kôr-dă) Fr. v.
37To adjust: to tune an instrument. Equivalent of accordare (It.) and accordiren (Ger.).
39accordeur (ăk-kôr-dûr') Fr. n.
401. A tuner: one who tunes instruments.
412. The monochord.
423. An instrument with twelve steel tuning-forks on a sounding-board,
44accoupler
45which gives the twelve tones of the perfectly tempered scale. Equivalent of accordatore (It.).
47according
48Being in tune, harmonious: a concordant blending of parts.
50accordion
51A simple, wind instrument of limited capacity invented by Damian of Vienna in 1829. It is oblong in shape and consists of a small pair of hand bellows of varying number of folds which can be drawn out or pushed together at will. The bellows is closed at either end by a keyboard, that for the right hand containing four keys, each of which act on two reeds and give a compass of a diatonic scale of one octave, and that for the left containing two keys that give harmonic bass tones, usually on the tonic and dominant. These keys open valves admitting air from the bellows to metal reeds in two sets, one set sounding when the bellows is closing, the other when it is opening. Only one octave can be played, and that imperfectly, so the instrument is little more than a toy. The concertina is a higher development of the accordion and is capable of producing a wider range of tone. For further discussion see concertina.
53The accordion is the same as German concertina.
55accordiren (ăk-kôr-dĕ'-rĕn) Ger.
56To tune. Equivalent to accordare (It.), accorder (Fr.).
58accordo (ăk-kôr'-dō) It. n.
59Literally, accord.
601. A chord, concord, consonance.
612. An old Italian double bass instrument with twelve or fifteen strings, sometimes as many as twenty-four. It was played with a bow in such a manner as to cause several strings to vibrate simultaneously. Another name was archiviola da lira.
63accordo consono (ăk-kôr-dō kôn-sŏ-nō) It.
64A consonance: concord.
66accordo dissono (ăk-kôr-dō dis'-sŏ-nō) It.
67A dissonance: discord.
69accordoir (ăk-kôr-dwăr) Fr. n.
70An instrument used in tuning: a tuning key, hammer, cone, or horn. Equivalent to accordatoio.
72accoupler (ăk-koo-plā) Fr. v.
73To couple; that is, to draw the coupler, a mechanical contrivance by which the keys of one keyboard are so
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