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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1stopped
2Closed with a stopper: a term applied to certain pipes of the organ whose pitch may be lowered or raised by means of the stopper.
3stopped diapason
4A group of wooden pipes stopped at the upper end with plugs. They command the entire compass of the keyboard to which they belong. Their tone is softer and more mellow than open diapason. Abbr. St. D., St. Diap.
5stopped notes
6In music for the violin and other similar instruments, notes that are produced while the string is pressed with the finger.
7stopped unison
8See stopped diapason.
9stopples
10Plugs which are inserted in some of the finger holes of the flute and flageolet when a selection is to be played which is written in a peculiar mode not requiring the entire number of holes.
11storta (stôr'-tä) It. n.
12See serpent.
13stortina (stôr-tê'-nä) It. n.
14A small serpent. See also serpent.
15Stosszeichen (shtôs'-tsî-khên) Ger. n.
16A staccato mark: a musical sign placed over a note or chord, to indicate that it is cut short or detached from the following note or chord.
17straccicalando (strät-chî-kä-län'-dô) It. adj.
18Chattering; babbling; requiring the production of a musical effect suggestive of tiresome prattling.
19Stradivari (strä-dê-vä'-rê) It. n.
201. The name of a most skilful family of Cremona violin makers.
212. Also used as a name for instruments made by them.
22Stradivarius (sträd-î-vâ'-rî-ûs) Lat. n.
23The Latinized form of the name Stradivari.
24strain
25In popular usage, a tune; a song; any clearly defined portion of a song or melody; or simply a prolonged note. Technically, a section or other subdivision of a composition which formerly was marked by the double bar, and still is in some cases, such as in hymns and chants.
26strambotto (sträm-bôt'-tô) It. n.
271. A kind of roundelay: a song sung over and over again, consisting usually of eight verses.
282. Any light, playful piece of music.
29street-organ
30strappare (sträp-pä'-rê) It. v.
31Literally, to pluck off: in pianotechnic, to throw off a note or chord by a rapid, light turn of the wrist.
32strascinando (strä-shî-nän'-dô) It. adj.
33Dragging; drawling; playing slowly.
34strascinando l'arco (strä-shî-nän'-dô lär'-kô) It.
35Dragging the bow; drawing the bow close to the strings in such a manner as to slur the tones.
36strascinato (strä-shî-nä'-tô) It. adj.
37Dragged along; moving with difficulty; retarded; rendered slowly.
38strascino (strä-shê'-nô) It. n.
39A drag; a slur; a binding of tones in which the time is dragged or retarded.
40strathspey
41A noted Scotch dance which takes its name from strath, valley, and the River Spey, in the northern part of Scotland, where the dance originated. The terms strathspey and reel have been used interchangeably and yet there is a distinction between them. Although both are written in four-four time, the reel is slower in movement and less jerky in style. The strathspey calls upon the dancers for violent and vigorous exercise; the fiddler many times giving an emphatic scrape of the bow, or even a shout, to urge on the performers. The music of the reel shows the smoother rhythm by its even succession of quarter notes, while the strathspey shows its lack of smoothness by bars of dotted quarter notes alternating with sixteenths. Burns frequently mentioned the strathspey. Although long a popular dance, music under that name did not appear until well into the Eighteenth Century.
42stravagante (strä-vä-gän'-tê) It. adj.
43Extravagant; fantastic; capricious.
44stravaganza (strä-vä-gän'-tsä) It. n.
45An extravagance or eccentricity; hence, an odd, fantastic musical composition.
46straw-fiddle
47The translation of Strohfiedel (Ger.). The xylophone, so called because the bars of wood rest upon ropes of straw. See also xylophone.
48straziante (strä-tsî-ăn'-tê) It. adj.
49Mocking; suggestive of mockery or derision.
50street-organ
51A portable barrel organ designed to be played on the streets. Another name is hand organ.
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