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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1Desaccorder
2Desaccorder (dā-zăk-kôr-dā') Fr. v.
3To put out of tune: to untune.
4descant Eng. n. from Lat.
5See discant.
6descend
7To pass from one tone to another of lower pitch.
8descendant (dū-sāñ-dāñ') Fr. part. and adj.
9Descending.
10descendere (dā-shēn'-dē-rē) It. v.
11descendre (dū-sāñdr') Fr. v.
12To descend.
13descendre d'un ton (dū-sāñdr-d'ūñ-tōñ') Fr.
14To descend one tone: to sing one note lower.
15descent
16The act of passing from higher to lower pitch.
17deschant (dū-shāñ') Fr. n.
18Equivalent to discant.
19Desdes (dās'-dās) Ger. n.
20D double flat.
21Deses (dā'-sēs) Ger. n.
22D double flat.
23desiderio (dā-sē-dā'-rī-ō) It. n.
24Longing, desire, passion: con desiderio, with an expression of longing.
25desinvolturato (dā-sēn-vōl-too-rā'-tō) It.
26désinvolture, avec (āv-ēk dā-sēn-vōl-tūr') Fr. n.
27With ease and grace of manner, or bearing.
28desk
291. The sloping attachment suspended above the keyboard of a piano for the purpose of holding the music.
302. Key-desk of an organ, the console; the manuals, pedals, stops and mechanical accessories considered as a whole, separate from the pipes and bellows, and, in modern organs, frequently placed at a considerable distance from them, especially when electric action is employed.
31desperazione (dēs-pē-rā-tsī-ō'-nē) It. n.
32Despair; desperation.
33Dessauer Marsch (dēs'-sow-ēr mārsh) Ger.
34A celebrated instrumental march, one of Germany's national march songs.
35dessin (dūs-sāñ) Fr. n.
36Design, sketch, plan: the design or structure of a composition; also an arrangement.
37dessus (dūs-sū') Fr. n.
38Literally, over, uppermost: the soprano or treble part.
39deutsche flöte
40desterita (dās-tā-rē'-tā) It. n.
41Dexterity.
42desto (dās'-tō) It. adj.
43Lively, brisk.
44destra (dās'-trā) It. adj.
45Right. Abbr. d., dest.
46destra colla (kōl'-lā dās'-trā) It.
47With the right hand.
48destra mano (dās'-trā mā'-nō) It.
49The right hand: it signifies the use of the right hand in playing a certain passage and is found chiefly in piano music. Abbr. d.m.
50détaché (dā-tā-shā') Fr. part. and adj.
51Detached: a term in violin playing indicating the use of the bow in alternate up and down movements, producing an effect midway between legato and staccato.
52détaché, grand (grān dā-tā-shā') Fr.
53The use of the bow in playing each note with a whole stroke.
54determinato (dā-tēr-mī-nā'-tō) It. part. and adj.
55Resolute, determined.
56determinazione (dā-tēr-mī-nā-tsī-ō'-nē) It. n.
57Determination.
58detonation (dā-tū-ās'-yōñ) Fr. n.
59Singing or playing off the pitch; especially, flatting. It is more common among vocalists than instrumentalists and is due to laxity of attention, or to a defective musical ear.
60detonieren (dā-tō-nē'-rēn) Ger. v.
61déttonner (dā-tūn-nā') Fr. v.
62To sing or play out of tune; used especially of the gradual lowering of pitch which is apt to occur in ordinary choral singing without accompaniment.
63detto (dēt'-tō) It. adj.
64Said; named; the same; the aforesaid.
65deuterus (doo'-tūr-ūs) Grk.
66A Greek word meaning second. In naming the medieval modes or scales, the second authentic note was called authentus deuterus, the second plagal, plagius deuterus, an authentic mode being one which began on the keynote and extended an octave above it, while a plagal mode began four tones below the keynote of the authentic mode on which it was based.
67deutlich (doit'-līkh) Ger. adj.
68Distinct, clear.
69deutsche flöte (doitsch'-ē flā'-tē) Ger.
70The German flute, otherwise known as the transverse or cross flute, which
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