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The Musiclover's Handbook, containing 1) a pronouncing dictionary of musical term and 2) biographical dictionary of musicians, 1911
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1Petite (Fr.) (peh-teet). Small; little.
3Petite Flute. The piccolo.
5Petite mesure à deuz temps. 2/4 time.
7Petite Pedale. Soft pedal in organ music.
9Petites Notes. Grace notes.
11Petto (It.). Chest.
13Peu à peu (Fr.). (This sound cannot be reproduced in English; it resembles oo, but is not so broad.) Little by little; by degrees.
15Pezzi (It.) (pet-see). Pieces.
17Pezzi concertanti. (1) Concerted pieces. (2) A "number" of an opera, concert, etc.
19Pezzi di bravura (bra-voo-ra). Showy, brilliant pieces.
21Pezzo (It.) (pet'-so). A piece; phrase. Beethoven uses the following sentence as a direction in one of his pianoforte sonatas: "Questo pezzo si deve trattare con piu gran delicatezza"—Every phrase must be treated with the greatest delicacy.
23Pfeife (Ger.) (pfei-feh). Pipe; fife.
25Phantasie (Ger.). See Fantasia.
27Phantasieren (Ger.) (fan-ta-see'-ren). To improvise.
29Phantasiestück. A piece devoid of form.
31Phrase. Technically, an incomplete musical sentence.
33Phrasing. The art of dividing a melody into groups of connected sounds so as to bring out its greatest musical effect, including also the placing of accent—cres. and decres., rall. and accel., rubato, etc.—and in pianoforte music, the varieties of touch. In vocal music, it refers chiefly to the breathing places; in violin music, to the bowing.
35Phrygian Mode. One of the Greek scales, generally supposed to be E—E. In the ecclesiastical scales, the octave scale from
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