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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1908
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1Bogeninstrumente
2Bogeninstrumente (bō'-khěn-ĭn-stroo-měn-tě) Ger. n.
3Bow instruments: all instruments played with a bow.
4Bogenstrich (bō'-khěn-strīkh) Ger. n.
5A stroke of the bow.
6bois (bwä) Fr. n.
7Wood: in the plural, les bois, the wood-wind instruments.
8boite (bwät) Fr. n.
9Box: the swell box of an organ.
10bolero (bō-lā'-rō) Spa. n.
11A lively Spanish dance, in three-four time, to be danced by two persons. It is composed of five parts, namely, the paseo or promenade, a kind of introduction; the traversias or crossing in which the dancers change places, and which is done both before and after the diferencias, a measure in which the steps are changed. Then follows the finales and bein parado, a graceful attitude or grouping of the two dancers. These dances are usually in three-four time, although the time often changes and the dancers accent the rhythm by means of castanets. This is one of the national dances of Spain. Sequidellas Boleros are those sung and accompanied by a guitar.
12bombard (bōm'-bārd) Eng. n.
13bombarde (bōn-bārd) Fr. n.
14bombardo (bōm-băr'-dō) It. n.
15Bombart (bōm-bārt) Ger. n.
16A medieval wind instrument, the forerunner of the oboe, of which it is a large and coarse species. Bassoons, clarinets, and oboes grew from the same beginnings. The ancient bombard of the larger size were long and unwieldy, until the reed was doubled upon itself and both reeds placed in one wooden tube as in the bassoon and oboe. This instrument was properly the bass of the shawms, but was made in the different sizes, the bass bombard called bombardone, contra bombard and bass bombart, the tenor or basset bombard and the alto or bombardo piccolo. A large, deep-toned instrument was usually referred to, although at times the name was applied to smaller instruments.
17bombardon (bōm-băr'-dōn) Eng. n.
18bombardon (bōn-băr-dōn') Fr. n.
19Bombardon (bōm-băr'-dōn) Ger. n.
201. A brass wind instrument like a trumpet, having valves whereby the half tones are produced. The deep brass bombardon, now obsolete, had three valves and a range from F on the first space below the bass clef to d on the second space above. The modern instrument is somewhat like the saxhorn species and is used as a bass in military music. It is usually built in sizes tuned to b flat, F, C, and B flat on the second line below the bass clef. In tone the bombardon is somewhat like the ophicleide, a modern brass wind instrument. There are two forms of bombardon, the upright and the circular, which passes over the player's shoulder with its bell toward the front. The tone, broad and open, does not blend very well with orchestral instruments, but in military brass bands forms the mass of the bass tone. The music for the bombardon is usually written in the bass clef, and the notes are played in the pitch in which they are written.
212. The name of an organ stop composed of pipes fitted with reeds for producing the sound. The tone is very powerful and the lowest pitch is the second or third octave below middle C.
22bombilation
23A buzzing or droning sound.
24bombilatus (bōm-bī-lā-tūs) Lat. n.
25The buzzer, hummer of the bee: a loud humming sound.
26bombo (bōm'-bō) It. n.
27A figure in repeated notes.
28bombyx (bōm'-bīks) Eng. n. from the Grk.
29Literally, silk worm: an ancient Greek instrument, probably a reed instrument like the flute, and having a powerful tone. It is supposed to have been very long and fitted with a reed.
30Bommert (bōm'-měrt) Ger. n.
31Bombard. See also bombard.
32bon (bōn) Fr. adj.
33Good, nice: in composition, as bon temps de la mesure, strong beat.
34bonang (bō-năng') Jav. n.
35A Javanese instrument consisting of a series of gongs placed in two lines on a frame.
36Bonn's bridge
37A violin bridge invented by Bonn, of London. It has a foot under each string, and aims at more resonance for the interior strings, that is, the G and D strings.
38boot
39In those organ pipes that are fitted with reeds the boot is a metal case shaped like an inverted cone and containing the reed as well as upholding the weight of the body or tube of the pipe.
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