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music a performer of music, one of the highest art of(arz mu'-zi-ka) Lat. music. cla , arsis (ar'-sis) Grk. n. arzillo Brisk;(ard-sil'-lo) It. adj. lively; sprightly. Literally, the lifting or elevating of the voice or the hand in beating time; As (as) Ger. n. the up beat. Usually understood to The note A flat. mean the unaccented part of the-me as- As dur (as door) Ger. ure, but construed also as the part on Key of A flat major. which the stre is laid (the accented As moll (as moll) Ger. part). This contradiction arose from Key of A flat minor. the fact that the Latin grammarians in Asas (a-sas) Ger. n. the Middle Ages construed the Greek The note A double flat. word to mean a raising with emphasis as caules (as-kaw'-lez) and hence applied it to the accented An ancient name for Grk. n. a bagpiper or feet in poetry and the accented beats organist, derived from ascaulos, a bag in music, but it is now generally considered that the Greeks used it in the opposite sense and it is now so under as colt a tore pipe. (as-kol-ta-to'-re) It. n. Listener; auditor; hearer. stood by the majority of musicians, asheor though it is virtually obsolete in the A ten(a'-she-6r) n. stringed instrument used by present day. the Hebrews. art (art) Ger. n. Kind, species, sort; way, mode, man- Asperges me a)(as-pur-ges me, or asner, or style. pur'-gas-m Lat. Cleanse me. The opening words art de 1'archet (ar dii lar-sha') Fr. taken from Psalm L, of the plain-song ing.Art of the bow: hence art of bowsung in the Roman Catholic Church, except at Easter, while the altar is art i col are (ar-te-ko-la'-re) It. v. being purified before the beginning of To articulate, utter, pronounce High Ma . At Easter the Vidi words distinctly: to enunciate the aquam notes separately and clearly. toned. from Psalm CXVII is in- 65 46 attacca subito aspirare concordance; a sounding together or