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The New Encyclopedia Of Music And Musicians, 1929
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1ment; the main rhythm remains unbroken, but the manner of subdivision is temporarily altered for the unexpected piquancy of effect. See Rhythm. The main varieties are as follows:
3Couplet, doublet, duplet, duole, 2 notes in place of 3.
4Triplet, triolet, triole, 3 notes in place of 2 or 4.
5Quadruplet, quartole, 4 notes in place of 3 or 6.
6Quintuplet, quintole, 5 notes in place of 4 or 6.
7Sextuplet, sextole, sextole, 6 notes in place of 4 or 8.
8Septuplet, septimole, septole, 7 notes in place of 4 or 6.
9Octuplet, octole, 8 notes in place of 6.
10Nonuplet, nonole, 9 notes in place of 8.
11Decuplet, decimole, 10 notes in place of 4 or 8.
12Undecuplet, 11 notes in place of 8 or 6.
13Dodecuplet, dodecimole, 12 notes in place of 8 or 9.
15The usual notation is a curve over or under the notes with a figure enclosed indicating the special subdivision.
17Notograph. See Melograph.
19Novelette. A name first used by Schumann for an instrumental piece of free and romantic character, in which several themes are developed somewhat boldly and energetically. G.
21Nuance. In the performance of a phrase or passage, vocal or instrumental, a progressive varying of the tempo, loudness or tone-color for the purpose of bringing out the full beauty or meaning. Such effects are somewhat indicated by various terms and signs, but the more delicate depend upon the performer's judgment and taste. G.
23Number. In extended vocal works, like operas, oratorios and cantatas, one of the distinct sections into which the acts or parts are divided, each number usually being complete in itself and in a specific form, such as aria, duet, chorus, etc. Also, any one item in the program of a concert or similar entertainment. Also same as opus-number.
25Numerals. Besides several uses as abbreviations in the strict sense, numerals are also used as symbols, as in thoroughbass, in solmization, in harmonic analysis, etc.
27Nunc dimittis. A canticle or its musical setting, the text taken from the Song of Simeon in Luke ii. 29-32, used in certain offices of both the Eastern and the Western Churches and in the Evening Prayer of the Anglican Church. G.
29The text begins 'Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, in pace.'
31Nun's-Fiddle. See Tromba Marina.
33Nut. In instruments of the lute- and violin-classes, especially the violin and its relatives, the ridge at the junction of the fingerboard and the head, over which the strings pass to the tuning-peg; a capotasto. It serves not only to lift the strings clear of the fingerboard, but to define their vibrating-length at the top as does the bridge, at the bottom. Also, in the bow used with the violin and similar instruments, the movable piece at the lower end, to which the hairs are fastened and by sliding which (by means of a screw) their tension may be adjusted. G.
35When the finger is pressed down upon a string in the action of 'stopping,' it is sometimes said to produce an artificial nut. On some instruments, like the guitar, an adjustable capotasto is provided, by which all the strings may be thus shortened and their pitch raised a semitone.
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