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It. manico (a med'-zo ma'-m-ko) a At prima first vista sight.(a pre'-ma ves'-ta) Equivalent to It. Place the hand on the middle of the Blatte (Ger.). vom neck of the violin. The direction for -to) It. a half shift in violin playing. On the (a instant A minor a punto poon': punctually; in strict time. The minor key.having neither sharps nor flats in its signature. See also A. a punto d'arco With the (a. or point poon'-to end of d'ar'-ko) the bow. It. A minor chord a quatre mains (a katr man) Fr. Any A minor chord or chord con- For four hands: two persons at the taining the intervals of a minor chord: piano or organ. a chord containing minor intervals, a quatre seuls (a katr siil) Fr. and a perfect fifth, or interval of three For four solo voices or instruments, and a half tones, and based upon A, a quatre voix (a katr vwa) Fr. as A, C, E. For four voices, A moll (a mol) Ger. a quattro A minor: the relative minor of the For four(a voices kwat'-tro) It. or instruments: a key of C. Like the key of C major, quartet; often written a 4. its signature contains no sharps or a quattro flats. C, its third note, is a minor For four man i (a kwat'-tro hands: ma'-ne) two persons It. at the third or interval of three half tones piano or organ. above the first note, instead of a major third, or interval of two whole tones, a quattro In four parti parts. (a kwat'-tro par'-te) It. and its half tones fall between its second and third and seventh and eighth a quattro For foursoli solo(a voices kwat'-tro so'-le) It. or instruments. notes ascending, and between its fifth and sixth and second and third notes a quattro For fourvoce (a kwat'-tro vo'-che) It. voices. descending. a rovescio (a ro-va'-sho) It. a monocorde (a mon-o-kord) Fr. By reversing; in an opposite direc- On one string only, tion: answering ascending intervals by a otto voci (a 6t'-to vo'-che) It. descending and vice vers a; repeating For eight voices, the subject of a fugue or canon back a parte wards in the answer. Also in a style On the(a side: par'-te) It. aside, which admits of reversion, part or all a parte equaleportion: (a par'-te a-kwa'-le) It. of the composition being written so In equal applied to music that it could be sung backwards or so in which there is more than one that it could begin with any part. leading performer or in which the ASame as ali a or al river so or rovescio. sharp voices and instruments are of equal importance. A of the diatonic or natural, major a pas so a pas so (a. pas'-so a pas'-so) It. or minor, scale, raised by a semitone Step by step: regularly. by means of a sharp, t. a piacere (a pi-a-cha'-re) It. A sharp minor a piacimento (a pi-a-chi-men'-to) It. The minor key with At pleasure: usually implying a seven sharps in the sig slackening of speed, ture, relative to the key wmas a piena of C sharp major, tra) orchestra It. (a pi-a'-na 6r-kas'- For full orchestra, a suoar-be'-tri-6) arbitrio (a It.soo'-6 or a poco (a po'-ko) It. At one's own will. The By a little: by degrees, gradually. same as ad libitum. A sharp minor 23 a suo bene placito abbacchiato a suo bene placito (a soo'-o ba'-n£ plarecting that the soft pedal be released. che'-to) It. See also pedals. At one's own pleasure. The same a trois (a trwa) Fr. as ad libitum, For, or in, three: in three voices or a suo comodo (a soo'-6 ko'-mo-do) It. parts. Often written a 3. as At ad one's libitum.own pleasure. The same a With una cord a or on (a oo'-na kor'-da) in It. one string: piano a table sec (a tab'l sek) Fr. music a direction for thE use of the a table sec he (a tab'l sesh) Fr. soft pedal. The piano is arranged A dry table, French idiom for with three strings to each note, which above. Without instrumental accomare all struck under ordinary cond i panim ent; applied to practising vocal tions, but when the soft pedal is exercises unaccompanied. pre ed down the hammers strike a tempo slantingly instead of straight and hit In time:(a the tem'-po) term isIt.used to direct only one string, thus producing a a return to the original time after softer tone. some deviation. Equivalent to im tact a vicenda (Ger.). Abbr. a t, a tern., or a temp. In turn: (a succe ion; ve-chen'-da) alternately, It. a vide (a ved) Fr.