pan a the nae an games Grk

Ancient Greek games. At the great pansy mph on ikon panathenaeic festival there were musipipes, A kind of orchestrion invented in caI, contests in singing with the lyre 1839, by Peter Singer. and the flute, and in rhapsodic rec i- Pantaleon tation ofepic poems. There were con- A musical instrument said to have tests m gymnastics on a smaller scale been named by Louis XIV after the than those held at Olympia and inventor, a Pru ian, named Pantaleon Nemea. At Olympia there was no Heberstreit. It was one of the fore music while at all of the other Grerunners of the piano and was e en- V~2 "lebrations at Pythia, Isthmi a tially a very large dulcimer;> having a??,Nemea music was one of the two sounding-boards strung with from cnief subjects of competition. Oil one to two hundred strings of gut and worn the sacred trees of Athena and vases painted to represent the con metal. It was played with two hammers held in the performer's hands. P, 7i.ere the games. pan a the nae an P"zes awarded for the pantalon (pan-ta-16n) Fr. n. The first figure or movement in PW0I5 (Pan-a'-lon) the old quadrille. The name was de- ™a c °.f flute having fifteen keys, rived from a song to which this figure ana hve whole tones below, added to was originally danced. The music 405 386 pantalon was made up of thirty-two measures Parallel be we gung parlante in six-eight time. Pantalon or pantaoongk) Ger. n.(pa-ral-lel-be-vakh'- loon is a familiar name for buffoon, Literally, parallel motion; that is, being taken from the name of a char when two voices carrying related acter in early Italian comedy. parts of a melody ascend or descend Pantalonzug (pan'-ta-lon-tsoog) Ger.n. by the same interval. Literally, pantalon-stop: a harps i- Parallelen (pa-ral-la'-len) Ger. n. chord stop that produced an effect Sliders of an organ. peculiar to the instrument called pan- Paralleltonarten (pa'- ral - lei - ton'-artal on, or pantaleon. ten) Ger. n. panting bellows Literally, parallel tones: parallel A small bellows fixed to the under keys, that is, a major key and its repart of the wind chest, and fitted with lated minor key; when a minor key a spring on its outer side. As the has the same signature as a major wind enters the wind chest it inflates key it is said to be the parallel or the bellows, and when a sudden der elated minor scale, mand on the wind occurs the reduced pre ure enables the spring to pre paramese (pa-ram'-e-se or pa-ram-e'- se) Grk. n. down the bellows and empty its con- Literally, next to the middle: the tents, thus making the supply of wind name of one of the strings of the more regular. Another name is con ancient eight-stringed lyre. Counting cu ion bellows. from the uppermost, as the lyre was pantomime held, the fourth or middle string was An entertainment in which not a called the mese, and the fifth or string word is spoken or sung, but one next below, was called the paramese. where the player employs only action, paranete (par-a-ne'-te) Grk. n. mimicry, gestures and movements in Literally, next to the last: the name presenting his part, accompanied by of one of the strings of the ancient instrumental music. eight-stringed lyre. Counting from the uppermost, as the lyre was held, Papa gen of lote (pa'- pa - ga - no-fla'-te) the eighth or lowest string was called Ger. Literally, the flute of Papageno, a nete, and the seventh or string next character in Mozart's opera, Magic above was called the paranete. Flute; a name for Pan's pipes. paraphrase papillons (pap-e-yofi) Fr. n. A restatement of a text or pa age, Literally, butterflies; delicate, dainty giving the sense of the original in composition. other words; a free transcription or paracontacion (par-a-kon-ta'-shi-6n) rearrangement of a vocal or instru- Grk. mental composition for some other Hurling back and forth: alternating instrument than that for which it was singing, formerly much in vogue in originally composed, the Greek church. par at (pa-rat) Welsh v. To sing.