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The New Encyclopedia Of Music And Musicians, 1929
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1G. The alphabetic symbol and name for a certain tone or note and for the scale or key associated with it; see Notation. G.
3As an abbreviation, g. stands for gauche and G. sometimes for Great (Grand) or Great Organ.
5Gabelklavier. A keyboard instrument like a piano, but with tuning-forks in place of strings, patented in 1882 by Fischer and Fritzsch of Leipzig.
7Galanter Stil. In the 18th century, an instrumental style of composition in which there was no effort to carry through a certain number of voice-parts as in a vocal madrigal or motet; opposed to gebundener or strenger Stil; see Voice-Part.
9It was the name for a style fully germane to instrumental use as distinct from one merely transferred from vocal use.
11Gaillard, Galliard. See Dances. G.
13Galop. See Dances. G.
15Galoubet. A direct or vertical flute immemorially associated in Provence with a small drum or tambourin. It has a compass of about 2 octaves. Four sizes are made, forming a complete family. G.
17Gamba. See Viola da Gamba. G.
19Gamma, Gamut. In the medieval hexachord-system, the first or lowest tone of the lowest hexachord was known by the Greek letter-name gamma or Γ, and, being solmized ut, also gamma-ut. Hence the French gamme and the English gamut as terms for scale (the latter loosely extended to compass as well). Gamut has also been applied to the staff and to the key (tonality) of g. See Hexachord, Notation and Solmization. G.
21Gassenhauer. In the 16th century, a popular street-song, like the Italian villanella; now used only for a vulgar or rude melody.
23Gathering-Note. In Anglican chanting, a term for the arbitrary emphasis or pause on the last (or almost last) syllable in the recitations, designed to enable the singers to begin the cadences together.
25Gavotte. See Dances. G.
27Gazel, Ghazal. A song or melody in which a short refrain frequently recurs.
29The name comes from a type of Persian lyric.
31Gebunden. Same as legato; see Terms of Performance. Also, of clavichords, same as fret-free; see Clavichord and Fret.
33Gebundener Stil, in the 18th century, an instrumental style in which a certain number of voice-parts are carried through as in vocal writing; opposed to galanter Stil; see Voice-Part.
35Geige. The German name for the viol or the violin; hence many compounds, like geigenklavier, geigenprincipal, etc. G.
37Generalbass. Same as thorough-bass.
39Generator. In chords, same as root. In acoustics, same as fundamental or first partial tone.
41Genus. In Greek music, the general term for the form or type of tetrachord, which might be diatonic, chromatic or enharmonic. Also, in modern usage, same as mode (form or type of scale).
43German. For German dance, see Dances; for German flute, see Flute; for German sixth, see Sixth.
45Gesangbuch. A collection of part-songs or hymn-tunes; in the latter sense also Choralbuch.
47Gigue, Giga. See Dances. G.
49Gimel, Gymel. In old English vocal music, a term for a form of discant, usually in parallel thirds. Later applied to a passage in which the voices on a single part are divided; opposed to semellus. G.
51Giraffe. A form of upright spinet or harpsichord, as used in the 18th century.
53Gittern. See Cithara, Guitar and Zither. G.
55Glasses, Musical, Glass-Harmonica. See Harmonica.
57Glee. A form of part-song for three or more solo-voices, unaccompanied, brilliantly cultivated in England from about 1700. It differs from the earlier madrigal in being in the modern major or minor mode, in being broken up into many brief phrases or strains, conformable to the phrases or lines of the text, and hence in avoiding extended contrapuntal development of a few themes or subjects. Its interest often lies in the abundance of thematic material and in its emphatic rhythm and its characteristic metric figures or patterns. It may include passages in solid harmony, with a predominant melody, but usually the voices move with considerable freedom. It may be divided into two or more distinct sections or movements. G.
59The term does not necessarily imply cheerfulness or jocularity; a glee may be serious or even pathetic. Minstrels in general were once called gleemen.
61A glee-club is an association of singers to sing glees in the special sense or part-songs in general; the term is often applied to a choral club that sings secular music.
63Glissando. See Terms of Performance. G.
65Glockenspiel. A set of bells or steel-bars or tubes, tuned diatonically and played with hammers; a bell-piano. Also same as carillon. G.
67Gloria in Excelsis. A hymn or canticle used in the liturgies of both the Eastern and Western Churches, usually in the office for Communion, but in the Greek Church also after certain Psalms in lesser services and in the American Prayer Book also as an alternative for the Gloria Patri after the Psalms in Morning and Evening Prayer; often called the Great Doxology or the Angelic Hymn (see below). G.
69Its basis is the short song attributed to the angels in Luke ii. 14, and it was first used in this form. But it was soon expanded on lines somewhat parallel to those of the Te Deum. Its complete form begins 'Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntat-
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