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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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1instrument, in which strips of glass or metal are used instead of wire strings, played in the same way.
2Duolo (It.) (doo-o'-lo), con doloroso (It.), con dolore (It.) (do-lo'-reh). Plaintively; mournfully.
3Duple. Double. Duple Time, two beats in the measure.
4Dur (Ger.) (duhr). Literally, hard; major.
5Dur (Fr.). Hard; coarse; rough.
6Duramente (It.) (doo-ra-men'-teh). Roughly.
7Durchführung (Ger.) (doorch'-fee-roonk). The working out; development of a sonata or fugue. See Development.
8Durchkomponirt (Ger.) (doorch'-kom-po-neert). Composed through. Applied to a song that has a separate setting for each stanza.
9Durezza (It.) (doo-retz-a), con. With sternness.
10Dur-moll Tonart (Ger.). Major-minor scale or mode; a diatonic scale with major 3d and minor 6th.
11Duro (It.), Durante (It.). Harshly.
12Düster (Ger.) (dees-tehr). Gloomy; mournful; sad.
13Dux (Lat.). Leader; the theme of a fugue.
15E
16E. (1) The third of the natural major scale, fifth of the natural minor. (2) The first or highest string (chanterelle) of the violin. (3) The fourth or lowest string of the double bass.
17E. (It.) (eh). And; when the word that follows begins with a vowel, ed (ehd).
18Ebollimento or Ebollizione (It.) (eh-bol-litz-ee-o'-neh). Boiling over; sudden expression of passion.
19Ecclesiastical Modes. The scales called also Ambrosian and Gregorian, in which plain song and plain chant are written. They differ from the modern diatonic in the position of the half-tones; their position depends upon the initial note of the scale.
20Échelle (Fr.) (eh-shel). A scale.

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