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The musiclover's handbook, containing (1) a pronouncing dictionary of musical terms and (2) biographical dictionary of musicians, 1911
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1Nachahmung. Imitation.
2Nachdruck. Emphasis.
3Nachlassend. Retarding.
4Nachsatz. Closing theme; coda.
5Nachspiel. Postlude.
6Nachthorn (Ger.). Night-horn. An organ-stop; large-scale closed pipes, generally 8-foot tone.
7Naïf (Fr.), masc. (nah-if), fem. Naïve (nah-eve). Simple; natural; unaffected.
8Naiv (Ger.) (nah-if). See Naïf.
9Naïvement (Fr.) (na-eve-mong). Artless.
10Naïveté (Fr.) (na-eve-teh). Simplicity.
11Naker. A drum. (Obsolete.)
12Narrante (It.) (nar-ran-teh). Narrating. A style of singing in which especial attention is given to distinctness of enunciation, rather than to musical effect.
13Nasard, Nazard, or Nassat. An organ-stop tuned a twelfth above the diapason.
14Nason Flute. A soft, closed stop, 4-foot pitch.
15Natural. A sign ♭ which restores a letter to its place in the natural scale. In the ancient system of music the only changeable note in the scale was B. The sign for that sound was ♯, the old form of the letter; it signified the sound we call B flat and was called B rotundum, i.e., round B. When it was to be raised a half tone a line was drawn downward at the right side, thus ♯, and it was called B quadratum, i.e., square B. In our modern music these have been retained as the signs for flat and natural.
16Natural Horn or Trumpet. Those without valves or slides. The sounds produced are called natural harmonics, and are the same as may be produced by touching lightly a vibrating string at any point that will cause it to divide into equal parts, as 2, 3, 4, etc.
17Natural Major Scale. The scale of C major.
18Natural Minor Scale. A-minor; also any minor scale with unchanged 6th and 7th.
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