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Fr. en musique (metr an' mii-zek') fingers cover G, A and B. To set to music, mezzo orchestra (med'-zo or'-kasmettre en repetition (metr an ra-patra) It. tes'-yon) Fr. Half the orchestra. To put in rehearsal, mezzo piano (med'-zo pi-a'-no) metzilltheim Heb. n. Moderately soft. Abbr. mp. It. Usually _ translated cymbals. In mezzo-quarto (med'-zo-kwar'-to) It. biblical history, however, they are An eighth rest. called bells of the horses, as little mezzo It. soprano (med'-zo s6-pra'-no) cymbals were used on the harne no) of horses. The Hebrew cymbals were A female voice whose compa lies much smaller than the modern instrubetween m. sop. soprano and contralto. Abbr. ment, being but four or five inches in diameter, and those used on the mezzo soprano clef (med'-zo so-pra'- horse trappings were undoubtedly still smaller. Synonym of metzilloth, met- The C clef on the second line which zillhaim and tzeltzelim. See cymbal, was formedly used in old. mezz a (med'-za) It. n. church music or madrigals. Medium; half; in the middle. The treble, or soprano, clef is now used. mezzaIt. bravura (med'-za bra-voo'-ra) mezzo It. staccato (med'-zo stak-ka'-to) Moderate skill: requiring moderate skill; hence, a term applied to musical Half-staccato; only slightly disc on compositions of moderate difficulty. nected. A style in which the notes mezz a di voci (med'-za de vo'-che) It. are almost run together; indicated by The words, a cresende e diminuena combination of the staccato ^*^ do, are usually added to this term and legato signs. completing the meaning: let the voice mezzo tenore (med'-zo ta-no'-re) It. swell and decrease in volume, and are A male voice whose compa is not always understood if omitted. The dias high as tenor nor so low as baryrection is repre-. _ tone. sented by the sign - — ' mezzo tuono (med'-zo too-6'-no) It. mezzana (med-za'-na) It. n. Semi-tone; half-tone. Middle string of a lute or violin. mezzo voce (med'-zo vo'-che) It. mezzo (med'-zo) It. n. Half of the voice power: at half Medium; half; in the middle. Synoforce or volume. Abbr. m. v. nym of mezz a. Abbr. M., mez. mi (me) It., Spa. and Fr. n. mezzo aria (med'-zo a'-ri-a) It. The name applied to the tone E in A _ solo half sung and half recited. Italian, Spanish and French. In the Equivalent to aria parlante, speaking aria. Are tin i an system, the third of the syllables used in naming the tones of mezzo It. bravura (med'-zo bra-voo'-ra) the scale. In the fixed do system, mi always stands for E, in the movable Moderately difficult. do system, for the third tone of the mezzore) carattere (med'-z5 ka-rat'-tamajor scale. Spelled me in the Tonic It. Sol-fa system. Literally, moderate character: music In old English musical notation mi of medium expre ion and execution. always indicated the leading note. 351 332 mi bemol military drum mi bemol (me ba-mul) Fr. electrical conductivity are placed in E flat, the course of an electric current, the mi bemol majeur (me ba-mul' maconductivity of the system is much zhfir') Fr. increased by even the very smallest The key of E flat major. amount of pre ure. In most in strum i bemol mineur (me ba-mul' ments one piece of charcoal is held niir') Fr. loosely between two other pieces in The key of E flat minor. such a manner as to be affected by lt, the slightest vibrations conveyed to it