5000 MUSICAL TERMS: A COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF LATIN, GREEK, HEBREW, ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN, AUBER, BEETHOVEN, BERTINI, BURGMULLER, CARULLI, CRAMER, CZERNY, MEYERBEER, MENDELSSOHN, MOZART, RINCK, SPOHR, THALBERG, WARREN, WEBER, AND OTHER EMINENT MUSICAL COMPOSERS. THE WHOLE INCLUDING THE CELEBRATED DICTIONARIES OF DR. BUSBY, TO WHICH IS ADDED A TREATISE ON PLAYING THE ORGAN OR BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY OLIVER DITSON, 115 WASHINGTON ST. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by OLIVER DITSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ML 108 4201 DICTIONARY OF MUSICAL TERMS. ABBREVIATIONS, denoting the language in which the terms are written, or from which they are derived: F., French; G., German; Gk., Greek; H., Hebrew; I., Italian; L., Latin; S., Spanish; Pl., Plural. A. A, the alphabetical name given to the sixth note of the scale of C in ascending. A, (I.) to, for, by, at, &c.; as, a tre, for three. AANES, a Greek term, applied to modes and tones. ABACUS, an ancient instrument for dividing the intervals of an octave. A BALLATA, (I.) in the manner of a ballad. A BATTUTA, (I.) by beating, or in strict time, after an ad libitum. ABBANDONASI, ABBANDONATEMENTE; ABBANDONE, con, ABBANDONO, con, (I.) with self-negation and aban- ABBASSIMENTO DI MANO, (I.) the falling of the hand in beating time. ABBREVIATURE, (I. Pl.) contractions or abbreviations in musical notations. ABBELLIMENTI, (I.) ornaments introduced to set off a plain melody. A BENE PLACITO, (I.) at the pleasure of the performer. |