half valves or keys that produce

tones. Catgut. Gut strings for harp, violin and other stringed instruments. corale (ko-ra'-le) It. n. corde A choral, a hymn tune in simple corde aa vide jour (kord (kord aa ved) zho or') Fr. Fr. and dignified style. Literally, a string: on instruments coranach (kor'-a-nakh) Eng. n. front of the violin family the name given the Gaelic an open string in playing, that is, a From the Gaelic co, together, and string upon which the fingers do not ranach, a shrieking or weeping. pre to change its pitch. 155 136 corde de luth corno di ba et to corde de luth (kord du lut) Fr. in bra bands. In early times it was The string of a lute, a rough-toned instrument, somewhat corde fau e (kord fos) Fr. like the curved horn called serpent, A string unbent. A string out of only smaller. The modern cornet tune. with valves was invented early in the corde sourde (kord soord) Fr. Nineteenth Century. The cornet most A mute string: a dead string, that used in military bands is tuned to B is, one that has its tone deadened or flat and sounds the notes a whole modified by an appliance clamped on tone lower than they are written. the strings above the bridge of the The cornet in E flat sounds the notes instrument for that purpose. three half steps lower than they are written and the cornet in C sounds cordier (kord-ya') Fr. n. cordiera (kord-di-a'-ra) It. n. the tones as they are, but this last In stringed instruments like the instrument is very little used. Abbr., violin the piece of wood behind the cor. bridge, usually of ebony, to which cornet a bouquin (kor-na a boo-kaf i) the strings are attached, cordometre (kor-do-metr) Fr. n. Fr. Ram's horn and horn. cornet. Equivalent to bugle String gauge: an instrument for measuring the thickne of strings cornet, grand for violins, guitars and other instru- See grand cornet stop cornet, ments of the same family. It consists of an oblong piece of metal having a 1. An organ stop composed of graduated slit and engraved tablet, pipes fitted with reeds and capable of coreografia (ko-re-6-gra-fe'-a) It. n. imitating the blaring tone of the or- Literally, composing dances: the dinary cornet. It po e es various method of describing the figures of a pitches. square dance. 2. An organ stop composed of corifeo from three to five ranks of pipes Chief (ko-ri-fa'-o) leader: in It. n. ancient Greek which produce a corresponding numdrama the leader of the chorus in ber of tones of different pitches when singing and dancing; in modern a single key is depre ed, usage the leader of an opera or other cornetto chorus, It. n. ba o (kor-net'-to bas'-so) corimagistro (ko-rT-ma-jes-tro) It. n. An obsolete wind instrument of Master of the chorus: one who the Fifteenth Century, made curved. leads the choir. This instrument was the original of the serpent. coriphaeus (kor-I-fe'-us or k5-ri-fa'- oos) Grk. n. corni (kor'-ne) It. pi. Equivalent of coryphaeus. The horns: all the instruments of corista (ko-res'-ta) It. n. the horn family in an orchestra. Chorister: one who sings in a corni cello (kor-ni-chel-16) It. n. chorus or choir. Also a tuning fork A little horn: a small horn or cornet, or small two-pronged metal instrucornist ment of one invariable note, used in A cornet player or horn player, tuning instruments, corno alto (kor'-no al'-to) It. corn am us a (kor-na-moo'-za) It. n. The horn of highest pitch, in B flat, The bagpipe. A bagpipe in which the wind is supplied by the lungs of corno ba o (kor'-no bas'-so) It. the player. A rustic instrument of The ba horn or horn of low France and the Netherlands, having eight finger holes and a vent hole that pitch. was not fingered. It had two drones corno cromatico (kor'-no kro-ma'-tlko) It. or pipes capable of only one note A horn having valves or keys each; these tuned an octave apart. which produce half tones. corner (kor-na') Fr. v. corno set'-to) di ba et to It. (kor'-no de bas- To blow, to sound the trumpet or horn. To sound or play upon the The ba et-horn. cornet, 1. A species of clarinet a fifth cornet (kor'-net) lower in pitch than the C clarinet. A small bra wind instrument of 2. The name of a delicate toned the trumpet species, of the kind used reed organ stop. 156 137 corno di caccia coryphee corno di caccia (kor'-no de kat'-cha) coronach (kor'-6-nakh) Eng. n. from It. the Gaelic. The hunting horn. Equivalent to See coranach. Jagdhorn (Ger.) and cor de cha e corps Body.(kor) Fr. n. (Fr.). 1. A band of musicians. corno dolce (kor'-no dol'-che) It. Soft horn: an organ stop com- 2. The body of a musical instruposed of pipes fitted with reeds and ment. producing a tone somewhat like that 3. The body of a tone. of the French horn although not as corps de ballet (kor dii bal-la) Fr. smooth. This stop is more soft than Literally, company in a ballet: a the ordinary corno or horn stop. general name for the band of performers in the ballet. corno It. in B ba o (kor'-no; bas'-so) A low B horn, corps d'harmonie (kor dar-mo-ne) Fr. Literally, the root or body of a chord: the fundamental chord, that