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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1double trumpet
2quality to the trumpet, and whose lowest tone is three octaves below middle C. When, as is often the case, the lowest octave of pipe is omitted it is called the tenoroon trumpet.
3double twelfth
4An organ stop belonging to the class called mutation stops; it sounds a fifth above the foundation stops.
5doubled
6A note is said to be doubled when it occurs in two different parts of the same chord, or in more than one instrument or set of instruments in the orchestra.
7doublette (doo-blët') Fr. n.
8An organ stop composed of two pipes to each key of the keyboard and giving the typical organ tone. One row of the pipes is pitched an interval of a fifteenth, or two octaves, above the ordinary pitch of the corresponding keys, and the other row is pitched the interval of a twelfth, or an octave and a fifth, above. This stop is used to brighten any other having a tendency towards dulness.
9doublophone (doo-bl-fôn') Fr. n.
10A combination of the euphonium and the valve-trombone, having two separate bodies, but a single mouthpiece with a valve so constructed that the pressure of the thumb will enable the performer to direct the air to either side of the instrument chosen. It was invented in 1891 by a Parisian, Fontaine Besson.
11doubtful chord
12Equivocal chord; a term applied to a chord or chords which may belong to more than one key when their notation is slightly changed.
13douce (doos) Fr. adj.
14Soft, sweet.
15doucement (doos-mäñ) Fr. adv.
16Softly, sweetly.
17douleur (doo-lûr) Fr. n.
18Grief, sorrow.
19douloureusement (doo-loo-rüz-mäñ) Fr. adv.
20Mournfully, sadly.
21douloreux (doo-loo-rû') Fr. adj.
22Sad; doleful; plaintive.
23doux (doo) Fr. adj.
24Soft, sweet.
25doux mais soutenu (doo mě soo-tŭ-nü) Fr.
26Soft but sustained.
27douze-huit (dooz-wêt) Fr. n.
28Twelve-eight time.
29douze-quatre (dooz-kătr) Fr. n.
30Twelve-four time.
31doxology
32douze-seize (dooz-sëz) Fr. n.
33Twelve-sixteen time.
34douzième (dooz-yăm') Fr. n.
35The interval of a twelfth, that is, eleven successive degrees or twelve tones.
36downbeat
37The downward movement of the hand or baton in beating time, which marks the primary accent of each measure; the term is therefore applied also to that accent itself.
38downbow
39In playing the violin and kindred instruments, the downward stroke of the bow over the strings from its nut, or heel, to its point; used in producing the most powerful tones obtainable from the strings.
40down-bow sign
41A sign directing the downward stroke of the bow; marked in violin music as follows: or in cello music, thus: ^
42doxologia (dök-sŏl-ō'-ji-ä) Lat. n.
43Doxology.
44Doxologia Magna (dök-sŏl-ō'-ji-ä mäg'-nä) Lat.
45Greater Doxology; the hymn beginning "Gloria in excelsis, Deo" (Glory to God in the highest).
46Doxologia Parva (dök-sŏl-ō'-ji-ä pär'-vā) Lat.
47Lesser Doxology; the one beginning "Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto" (Glory be to the Father and the Son and to the Holy Ghost).
48doxologie (dök-sŏ-lo-zhē') Fr. n.
49Doxology.
50doxology (dök-sŏl'-ō-ji)
51A hymn or song of praise used in the church service, sung usually at the close of a prayer or psalm.
52There are special doxologies used in different services. The Lesser Doxology, Doxologia Parva, or Gloria Patri, "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen," came into use in the Fourth Century. In the Roman Catholic Church this appears at the conclusion of every psalm and canticle, except the Te Deum and Benedicte, and in all the responses of the breviary, except on the last three days of Holy Week and in the office of the dead. In the Anglican church the Lesser Doxology is used at the end of psalms and canticles. The Greater
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