Scan 98
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1bowing
2his instrument every possible gradation of tone and expression. This part of the art of violin playing has developed with the development of the bow.
3As a verb. 1. To mark a passage indicating the proper method of bowing. The earlier composers seldom employed this series of direction in their compositions, but at present every passage is carefully marked by the author of the composition, and special handling of the bow in various passages has greatly advanced the art of violin playing.
42. To perform upon a stringed instrument by means of a bow.
5boyau (bwä-yō') Fr. n.
6Gut: gut-strings for musical instruments.
7boyaudier (bwä-yōd-yā') Fr. n.
8Gut-worker: a maker of violin-strings.
9bozzetto (bôts-sët'-tō) It. n. one of two readings
10bozzetto (bôts-sët'-tô) It. n. one of two readings
11A rough sketch or draft: a musical sketch.
12brabanconne (brä-bän-sün') Fr. n. one of two readings
13brabanconne (brä-bän-sûn') Fr. n. one of two readings
14A native of Brabant, a province of Belgium. The Belgium national hymn, the music of which was written by a singer named Campenhont, and the words by an actor named Jenneval. It was first sung during the revolution of 1830.
15braccio (brät'-shō) It. n. one of two readings
16braccio (brät'-shô) It. n. one of two readings
17The arm: a name given to the violin and other instruments held against the neck with the left hand and played with a bow.
18brace
191. A curved or straight line used in musical scores to connect two or more staves:
212. A leather band placed about the cords which are laced back and forth between the skin heads of a drum, holding them in place. The leather bands slide upon the cords and are used to raise or lower the tone by increasing or lessening the tension of the cords.
23Bratsche
24brachycatalectic (bräk-ī-kăt-ă-lęk'-tĭk) one of two readings
25brachycatalectic (bräk-î-kât-ä-lék'-tîk) one of two readings
26Eng. adj. and n. from Grk.
27Applied to a line of poetry which lacks two syllables or an entire foot.
28bran de Inglaterra (brän dā ēn-glät'-rā) Spa. n. one of two readings
29bran de Inglaterra (brän dä ēn-glät'-râ) Spa. n. one of two readings
30An old Spanish dance, probably identical with the English brawl.
31branches
32The additional parts of the tubing of wind instruments, into which wind is admitted by means of valves and which serve in producing tones of lower pitch.
33branle (bräñ'-lŭ) Fr. n. one of two readings
34branle (bräñ'-lû) Fr. n. one of two readings
35From the French verb to swing; the same as bransle.
361. A step in the basse dance in which the body is swayed from side to side.
372. A round dance in four-four time, which was popular in France during the Sixteenth Century.
383. A French dance popular in England during the Sixteenth Century. The exact nature of it is uncertain, but it is supposed to have been a round dance, one in which the dancers joined hands in a circle. It is identical with the bransle, the brangill and probably with the brawl, the English name given it probably from its resemblance to an altercation.
39Bransle (bräñ'-lŭ) Fr. n. one of two readings
40Bransle (bräñ'-lû) Fr. n. one of two readings
41From branle, swinging, shaking.
421. A swinging movement in the basse danse, a French dance of the Fifteenth Century.
432. A dance popular in France to the Seventeenth Century, accompanied by singing, and containing many figures in four-four time. Balls were usually opened and closed by the bransle dance. Its influence is still seen in many French dances and in children's games.
44bransle double (bräñ'-lŭ doo'-b'l) Fr. one of two readings
45bransle double (bräñ'-lû doo'-b'l) Fr. one of two readings
46A dance in quicker time than the bransle.
47brass
48A general name for all wind instruments made of brass.
49brass instruments
50All metal wind instruments. Brass instruments are used mostly in military music.
51Bratsche (brät'-shě) Ger. n. one of two readings
52Bratsche (brät'-shë) Ger. n. one of two readings
531. The viola or tenor violin.
542. A German name derived from the Italian viola da braccio, meaning an arm viol and referring to the manner in which the tenor viol was held in
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