Scan 66
The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1908
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1arpone
2arpone (är-pō'-nē) It. n.
3An instrument like the harp but having its strings set horizontally instead of vertically. It was played like the harp. It was invented about the end of the Eighteenth Century by Barbiere of Palermo.
5arrangement
6The adaptation of music for some other instrument or voice, or for some purpose for which it was not originally intended. Orchestral scores are frequently arranged for piano, piano duets as solos, or a separate composition as an overture or incorporated in a larger work, such as an opera or vice versa. There are already a long array of arrangements, made by one composer of another's works or of his own. Abbr. arr.
8arranger (är-rān'-zhā) Fr. v.
9arrangieren (är-rän-zhēr'-ēn) Ger. v.
10To arrange music for special voices or instruments, other than those for which it was written, as to arrange an orchestral score for the piano.
12ars canendi (ärz kä-něn'-di) Lat.
13The art of singing.
15ars componentis (ärs köm-pō-něn'-tīs) Lat.
16The art of composing.
18ars musica (ärz mū'-zi-kä) Lat.
19The art of music.
21arsis (är'-sīs) Grk. n.
22Literally, the lifting or elevating of the voice or the hand in beating time; the up beat. Usually understood to mean the unaccented part of the-measure, but construed also as the part on which the stress is laid (the accented part). This contradiction arose from the fact that the Latin grammarians in the Middle Ages construed the Greek word to mean a raising with emphasis and hence applied it to the accented feet in poetry and the accented beats in music, but it is now generally considered that the Greeks used it in the opposite sense and it is now so understood by the majority of musicians, though it is virtually obsolete in the present day.
24art (ärt) Ger. n.
25Kind, species, sort; way, mode, manner, or style.
27art de l'archet (är dū lär-shā') Fr.
28Art of the bow: hence art of bowing.
30articolare (är-tē-kō-lā'-rē) It. v.
31To articulate, utter, pronounce words distinctly: to enunciate the notes separately and clearly.
33Asperges me
34Asperges me (äs-pūr-gēs mē, or äs-pūr'-gās-mā) Lat. one of two readings
35Cleanse me. The opening words taken from Psalm L, of the plain-song sung in the Roman Catholic Church, except at Easter, while the altar is being purified before the beginning of High Mass. At Easter the Vidi aquam from Psalm CXVII is intoned. one of two readings
37(no line here) one of two readings
38articolato (är-tē-kō-lā'-tō) It. past part.
39Articulated: given distinctly.
41articolazione (är-tē-kō-lā-tsī'-ō'-nē) It. n.
42Articulation: exact and distinct pronunciation.
44articulation
45The clear and distinct rendering of each syllable and of every tone in both vocal and instrumental music.
47articuler (är-tē-kū-lā) Fr. v.
48To articulate, utter, pronounce words distinctly: to enunciate the notes separately and clearly.
50artificial
51Not natural: applied to chromatic notes or chords, i. e., notes which have become a semitone higher or lower than they are naturally, by means of sharps, flats or naturals, and chords in which one or more chromatic notes so altered appear.
53artiglich (är'-tīkh'-líkh) Ger. adj.
54Neat; pretty; graceful; gentle; pleasing.
56artikuliren (är-tē-koo-lē'-rēn) Ger. v.
57To articulate: to utter distinctly.
59artista (är-tīs'-tā) It. n.
60artiste (är-tīs'-tē) It. n.
61An artist: an excellent composer or performer of music, one of the highest class.
63arzillo (ärd-sīl'-lō) It. adj.
64Brisk; lively; sprightly.
66As (äs) Ger. n.
67The note A flat.
69As dur (äs door) Ger.
70Key of A flat major.
72As moll (äs möll) Ger.
73Key of A flat minor.
75Asas (ä-sās) Ger. n.
76The note A double flat.
78ascaules (äs-kaw'-lēz) Grk. n.
79An ancient name for a bagpiper or organist, derived from ascaulos, a bagpipe.
81ascoltatore (äs-kōl-tā'-tō'-rē) It. n.
82Listener; auditor; hearer.
84asheor (ä'-shē-ôr) n.
85A ten stringed instrument used by the Hebrews.
87Asperges me (äs-pūr-gēs mē, or äs-pūr'-gās-mā) Lat.
88Cleanse me. The opening words taken from Psalm L, of the plain-song sung in the Roman Catholic Church, except at Easter, while the altar is being purified before the beginning of High Mass. At Easter the Vidi aquam from Psalm CXVII is intoned.
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