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294 lagnoso landers lagnoso (lan-yo'-so) It. adj. melody, of which the most celebrated Plaintive, doleful, version is that printed by Guidetti in lagrimando (la-gri-man'-do) It. part, his Directorium Choir in 1582. Early lagrimoso (la-gri-mo'-so) It. adj. in the Sixteenth Century the plain- Tearful; mournful: in a sad and song lamentations were superseded mournful style. by a polyphonic setting by Genet, lah which was used until 1587, when Pope La, the name of the sixth note of Sixtus ordered more appropriate and the Tonic Sol-fa system. expre ive music written. At his lai (le) Fr. n. command Pal estrin a composed music A complaint; lament; lay; song. A to the First Lamentation for Good short plaintive song. Friday, which was so succe ful that lali in 1588 he i ued a complete set of A very large drum used by the nine lamentations. In 1640 the unnatives of the Fiji Islands. published First Lamentation for Good Time (l'am) Fr. n. Friday was substituted for the printed The sounding-post. See also ame. Lamentation and a composition by lament the le ons and accordingly three la- In Scottish and Irish folk music, mentation for Holy Saturday. Pope melodies of mournful character to Benedict XIII. decreed that the which are sometimes set words of a shortened form of Pal estrin a's first les plaintive cast. In Scotland the las on be supplanted by the full text of ments were mostly confined to the the le ons and accordingly three La- Highlands and were usually bagpipe mentatioby ns _ modern musicians tunes consisting of an air with a were submitted for his approval. number of more or le irregular var i- These were rejected, and Biordi was ations. Every clan had its own commi ioned to add to the music of lament, played on occasions of death Pal estrin a and Allegri whatever was or other calamity. These compos i nece ary to complete the text. This tions were wild and pathetic in char augmented version was used until acter but often po e ed a peculiar 1731, when Clement XII. restored the and haunting kind of beauty. Among Lamentations to their original form. the well-known laments are Lochaber In 1815Lamentation Baini restored Pal estrin a's No More, and Mackrimmon's Lament, printed for the first day and some may be found in Albyn's using the MS Good Friday compos i- Anthology, Patrick McDonald's tion for the This second and Allegri's for Highland Vocal Airs and other colthe third. arrangement is still lections. Irish Laments may be in use. found in the Aria di Camera. lamentoso (la-men-to'-so) It. adj. lament a bile (la-men-ta'-bi-le) It. adj. Mournful; lamentable, Plaintive; sad; mournful: sad, melancholy or plaintive in style. lamp on (laii-pon) Fr. From the verb, tamper, to gulp lament an do (la-men-tan'-do) It. part. down. Drinking songs. Lamenting; mourning: a term lancers meaning that music so marked is to be played in slow and mournful style. A square dance originally called lamentations the lancers' quadrille. The funeral music of the Jews. ants for the idea of this Two dance claim are Among the ancient Jews it was the a Dublin dancing master named Ducustom to hire five flute players and val, who is said to have taught it in usually a female singer to perform 1817-18, and an English man, Joseph over the body of the deceased. The Hart, who claimed to have invented number of these musicians was in it in 1819. His version consisted of creased according to the wealth of the five figures, la rose, la lodoiska, la family. dorset, les lanciers and Petoille, the In the Roman Catholic Church the star. They were danced to airs three first le ons appointed in the from Italian, Polish and English com- Roman Breviary for the Office of posers.still With a used, few changes, Hart's Matins on Thursday, Friday and Sat figures are urday of Holy Week, are taken from lanciers (lafls-ya) Fr. n. the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They A set of quadrilles: an arrangement were anciently adapted to plain-song of sets of dances. See also lancers. 314 largo 295 Landerer Landerer (len'-de-rer) Iapideon (la-pid'-e-6n) Lat. n. A slow waltz, German Ger.or n.Austrian, An instrument invented by Baudry. written in three-four or three-eight It consisted of a series of flint stones time, the last notes in each measure graduated and tuned to the scale and being a dotted eighth followed by a hung in a frame: it was played with sixteenth. hammers. landerisch (len'-der-ish) Ger. adj. largamente In the style or measure of a Broadly; (lar-ga-men'-te) nobly; in a free, It. adv. broad country dance. style of performance. landlich (lent'-l!kh) Ger. adj. largando (lar-gan'-do) It. adj. Rural; pastoral. Growing broader; becoming slower and more marked: this direction