dis diapason

from Grk.(dis-di-a-pi'-zon) Eng. n. A double octave; the interval of a Disk ants tim me (des'-kant-shtim'-me) Ger. n. fifteenth. Same as Disk ant register. disemic proceleusmatic (dl-se'-mik disparte (des-par'-te) It. adv. pros-e-lus-mat'-Ik) Eng. from Apart, aside, separately. Grk. dis per a to (des-pe-ra'-to) A metrical foot composed of two Desperate, despairing, It. adj. short syllables or notes, thus ^ ^. It dis per azione (dis-pe-ra-tsl-o'-ng) It. n, is usually called pyrrhic, and is half of Desperation, hopele ne : con disa proceleusmatic, w _ ^_ w. per azione, despairingly, in a manner Dish arm onie (des-har-mo-ne') Ger. n. expre ive of despair, Lack of harmony; discordance, dispersed harmony disharmonisch (des-har-mo'-nish) Ger. Extended or scattered harmony: adj. dispersed or extended harmony is that Inharmonious; discordant, in which the notes composing a chord dis in vol to (des-In-vol'-to) It. adj. are so far apart that the upper three Free, unhampered, easy, parts, treble, alto and tenor, exceed disinvoltura (des-in-vol-too'-ra) It. n. an octave in compa ; and between Grace, ease, freedom; con dis in vol any two of the parts of a chord in tura, gracefully, naturally. dispersed harmony there is space for Disis (des-es) Ger. n. the insertion of some one of the notes D double sharp. Same as dis-dis. belonging to that chord, disjunct dispersed position Disjoined; separated, Said of chords when the notes com disjunct succe ion prising them are far apart and extend A succe ion of sounds progre ing beyond an octave. Also called open by skips, the interval between any two of the notes being greater than a position. second, dispondee Grk. (dI-sp6n'-dS) Eng. n. from disjunct tetrachords A metrical foot composed of four Disjoined; separated. Disjunct tetlong syllables or notes thus: rachords, in ancient Greek music, ■—. It is the equivalent of were those in which the highest sound two spondees, of the lower tetrachord, group of four disposition tones, was a degree below the lowest The arrangement of the notes of a sound of the upper tetrachord, in conchord with respect to the intervals trad is tinct i on to conjunct, or over separating them; of the various parts lapping tetrachords. of a score, of an orchestra, or of a Diskant (des-kant) Ger. n. chorus; and of the stops, couplers, Equivalent to discant. normals, and other parts of the Diskantgeige (des-kant-gl'-g€) Ger. of n. mechanism of an organ. In the last The violin; the treble or soprano case, the term is applied rather to the group of stringed instruments; an the estimate of the cost of the instruobsolete term. ment than to the enumeration of its Diskantist (des-kant-gsf) Ger. n. parts with regard to their effective- A soprano singer: same as disc an ne , the latter being termed more tist properly the specification, di onance