pibroch (pe-brokh) Scotch, n

Music of a wild and irregular char- A small violin-shaped instrument acter played upon bagpipes in the used in the orchestra of Claudio Mon- Scottish Highlands. The pibroch was teverde's opera, Orfeo, in 1609. It is designed to awaken martial spirit and supposed to be identical with the clannish pride. It was composed of French pochette, from poche, mean an air, or ground theme, that reaping pocket, the German Taschengeige peared in several variations each and the English kit, which were used more rapid and difficult than the in the Seventeenth Century before the preceding, the whole ending with a general introduction of pianos by remarkably quick movement. Many dandies and dancing-masters, who times the title related to events of his carried them in their pockets to madtorical or legendary fame, and the full rigal parties and le ons. account of a battle was frequently represented from the preparation for 1. (n.) A plectrum. the conflict, through the advance of the 2. (v.) To pick or pluck, said of clan, the encounter, the flight of the strings. foe, the pursuit, and a wail for the slain pick clansmen. pickel note (plk'-el fla'-te) Ger. A Germanised form of flauto pic pic canter i a colo, or piccolo. Piquancy. (plk-kan-ter-e'a) It. n. picchettato (pik-ket-ta'-to) It. adj. 1. A musical composition. picchiettato (pik-ki-et-ta'-to) It. adj. piece 2. An instrument in a band or or- Literally, spotted: a sort of stacchestra. cato effect in violin playing indicated by dots under a slur, and made with piece Piece, (pe-es') Fr. de as suite n. pieces, a set of one bowing, called a bounding bow. pieces. In a musical sense a piece in picciolo (pit'-che-6'-lo) It. adj. French is called morceau. The Eng-.Small. picco pipe lish use piece for a play. Abbr. pes. pieces, fugitive A small whistle named after a blind Fleeting pieces; short compositions Sard in i an peasant who appeared in of no permanent value, London in 1856. The whistle had but three holes, and was flayed with repied Foot.(pe-a') Fr. n. mark able brilliancy, a compa of three octaves being secured, pieds, With avec the les feet:(a-vek la-pe-a') used a direction Fr. in piccohno (pik-ko-le'-no) It. adj. organ-playing,.Very small; diminutive of piccolo, piccolo (plk'-ko-lo) It. adj. pienamente (pi-a-na-men'-te) Fully; completely. It. adv. Small, used as a noun to mean: pie no Full, (pi-a'-no) It. adj. alsoiflauto piccolo picoloflute., small flute. See pie no Full coro (pi-a'-no chorus; ko'-ro) It. full choir..3?ian? Picc°lo, a small kind of