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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1croche double
2croche double (krôsh doo-bl) Fr. n.
3A semiquaver, or sixteenth note.
4croche pointée (krôsh pwäñ-tä') Fr.
5A dotted quaver or eighth note.
6croche quadruple (krôsh kwäd-roo-pl) Fr.
7A hemidemisemiquaver or sixty-fourth note.
8croche triple (krôsh trëp'l)
9A demisemiquaver or thirty-second note.
10croches liées (krôsh lë-ä') Fr.
11Bound quavers: eighth notes having the hooks joined.
12crochet (krô-sha'-) Fr. n.
13A hook: the hook of the eighth, sixteenth and other notes of shorter duration. The stroke of abbreviation across the stems of notes, indicating that they are to be played the same as eighth or sixteenth notes.
14crocheta (krô-she'-tä) Lat.
15A crotchet or quarter note.
16croisement (krwáz-mäñ') Fr. n.
17The crossing of parts, occurring where the higher part goes below the lower part and vice versa.
18croisez les mains (krwä-zä lâ män) Fr. n.
19Cross the hands: a direction term used in piano duets.
20croma (krô'-mä) It. n.
21A quaver; a quaver or eighth note.
22cromatica (krô-mü'-tï-kä) It. adj. fem.
23cromatico (krô-mä'-tï-kô) It. adj. mas.
24Chromatic or half tone, referring to intervals and scales.
25crome (krô'-mé) It. n. pl.
26Eighth notes: when written under quarter or half notes it shows that those notes are to be divided into eighth notes.
27crom horn
28Crooked horn.
291. A free-reed organ-stop of four, eight or sixteen feet.
302. A wood-wind instrument having a double reed and producing melancholy tones. It resembled a small cornet and was much used during the Sixteenth Century.
31Cromhorn (krôm-hôrn) Ger. n.
32A spelling of Krummhorn.
33crommo (krôm'-mô) It. n.
34A choral dirge or lamentation.
35cromorne (crô-môrn) Fr. n.
36Crooked horn. An obsolete woodwind instrument. It was of small bore and was fitted with a double reed, somewhat like that of the bassoon. This reed, enclosed in a cup through which the air was directed, was not under the direct control of the lips as in modern bassoons. This name, cromorne, cromorn, or Krummhorn, is also the name of an organ stop, which consists of conical pipes fitted with reeds and producing a tone of melancholy quality. Equivalent to cromhorn.
37cronach (krô'-näk) Gael. n.
38A Scottish funeral hymn, or dirge. See also coranach.
39crooked flute
40An Egyptian instrument in the shape of a bull's horn.
41crooked horn
42crooked trumpet
43The buccina, an ancient wind instrument somewhat like a trumpet.
44crooks
451. Short supplementary tubes, either curved or straight, which may be rapidly inserted between the mouthpiece and body, or main tube of the horn, cornet-a-pistons or trumpet, for the purpose of lowering the pitch. Each crook is named after the fundamental tone to which it lowers the pitch of the tube, as the D-crook which lowers an E flat instrument to D.
462. In the bassoon, saxhorn, alto or bass clarinet. The S-shaped tube forming the mouthpiece and containing the reed, or thin piece of cane, wood or metal fixed before the opening in such a way as to be set in vibration by the air admitted and thus produce musical sounds.
473. In old harp-action a crotchet engaging a string and raising its pitch a half tone.
48croque-note (krôk-nö't) Fr. n.
49croque-sol (krôk-sül) Fr. n.
50An unskilful musician: A player of easy execution, but having little taste or judgment.
51cross
52The head of a lute: a mark for the thumb placed over a note.
53cross beard
54A prejection at the side of the mouth of an organ pipe to help the tone quality. It tends to make the sound more piercing.
55cross fingering
56A method of playing old wood-wind instruments, closing a hole lower than that through which the sound issues.
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