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piuthe(almost. pe'-oo) It. 2. A style of martial music played al rigore del tempo (al re-go'-re del with cymbals. tem'-po) It. alborada (al-bo-ra'-da) Spa. n. In rigorous or very strict time, The dawn of day: hence morning al river so (al re-sho) It. music. In reverse motion. Same as ali a album leaf rivers a. See also al rovescio. A name given to a short instrual rovescio (al ro-va-sho) It. mental piece appropriate to put in an The proce of repeating a melodic album. It may be written in any form phrase or theme, in which every as according to the fancy of the comcending interval of the original part is poser. Equivalent to feuillet d' album imitiated by a descending one, and vice vers a: giving it backward note (Fr.). Albumblatt Album leaf.(al'-boom-blat Ger. n. for note. By old musicians (1400- 1600) the term was applied to a comalcuna licenza, con (kon al-koo-na leposition written so as to produce the chen'-tsa) It. same melody, whether played through With some license: with a certain forward or backward, or beginning freedom, with one part as well as another. Such alemana (a-la-ma'-na) Spa. n. a work was indicated by two clefs, one An old Spanish dance of German at the beginnning, the other at the origin. See also alemande. end, or two clefs of a different reg is aliquot tones ter at the beginning. Same as ali a Aliquot means literally a portion of river so or rovescio, and ali a rovescio. something, and is applied to the parts See also recte et retro, into which a vibrating string is al segno (a san'-yo) It. divided. Aliquot tones, which can " To the mark or sign," indicating a scarcely be distinguished from the repetition from some sign such as tone itself, are the series of upper,c. •/ to the word Fine, or to overtones or harmonics, which are •o or -75 a double bar with always produced with the principal a tone. See overtones and harmonics. pause above it. Sometimes the sign 41 22 Aliquotfiigel ali a rovescio Aliquotfliigel (al-T-kwot-flii-gel) Ger. a tre, and so on, according to the n. number of instruments that are to A grand piano invented by Julius play together. Abbr. unis. Bluther, a piano manufacturer of Leipsic. It differs from the ordinary ali a (al'-la) It. To the; at the; in the style of. Com grand piano in that it has an extra bin at i on of a and la, used before string stretched over each ordinary feminine words, singular number, be string and tuned an octave higher. The coming all' before a vowel. Plural extra strings are not struck by hamalle. mers; they add strength and richne to the tone of the other strings. ali a To breve (al'-la bra'-ve) the breve, i. e., one It.beat to a all* (all) It. breve, instead of to a semibreve or To the; at the; in the style of. whole note as in common time, con- Stands for ali a, alle, or alio. Wseque ntlythe abreve which s came quick in time to