prick

A dot or point. adopted as being more appropriate. 1. The name given to the head or dot of the note as distinguished from Prime prime (prem) Ger. and Fr. its stem. 1. The first tone, the tonic or key- 2. As a verb, it means to prick or note of a scale. make dots, hence to write music. 2. A tone on the same degree of the prick song scale or staff with a given note. The name given to the earliest 3. The interval between any tone written music, so called to distinguish and a tone on the same degree with it. it from extemporaneous music. The 4. The simultaneous combination notes were called pricks. of two tones on the same degree. priest, chantry prime, superfluous A priest who is employed to sing An interval in which one of the two ma in the chantries; chapels enprimes is a flat or sharp, dowed for the maintenance of a priest, who daily says ma for the soul of the primes Two notes placed on the same dedonor or for friends named by him. gree of the scale and having exactly prima the same pitch. The prime is the first First;(pre'-ma) chief. It. adj. or n. interval, that is the note itself, C is prima buffa (pre'-ma boof'-fa) It. the prime of C. Leading lady in comic opera, primes, perfect prima donna (pre'-ma. don'-na) It. Two notes having identically the Literally, first lady; leading lady in same pitch, with no chromatic tone opera; chief soprano. interval between them. A unison. prima donna a oluta (pre'-ma don'- Primgeiger (prem'-gl-ger) Ger. n. na as-so-loo'-ta) It. Prim, first, geiger, violinist: hence, First female singer in an operatic the first violinist, usually called the establishment; the only one who can first violin in the orchestra. claim that title. primicerio (pre-mi-cha'-n-o) It. n. prima parte repetita (pre'-ma par'-te primicerio (pre-meeth-er'-e-6) Spa. n. ra-pa-te'-ta) It. prim icer i us Pre cantor; (prim-T-se'-ri-us) cantor. Lat. n. Repeat the first part. 432 413 primo typical organ program tone. Also called the or n. It. adj.Imo. First;(pre'-mo) primo chief. Abbr. principal-stops, (tem'-po pre'-mo) It. principale The (pren-chi-pa'-le) Italian name for It. the n. open First tempo primo, time: after a change of tempo a direction meaning to return to the diapason stop; this is the stop which original time in which the piece is gives the typical organ tones. written. Abbr. I0., tempo prim., t. p., principale, nota (no'-ta pren-che-pa'- primo temp. le) It. A principal or e ential note: as primo buffo (pre'-mo boof'-fo) It. the harmony note in a turn or shake. The leading comedian in comic opera. principal i no The name (pren-chi-pa-le'-no) given to the organ It. stopn.