Doxology, Doxologia Magna

or dramma lirico (dram'-ma Gloria in Excels is, appears as early See dramma per music a.le'-ri-ko) It. as the Third, or according to some dramma per music a moo'-zi-ka) (dram'-ma per authorities the First Century. It It. comes at the beginning of the Roman A lyric drama; a musical drama, or ma , except in Advent and Lent, and is always used at the end of the An go per a. drammaturgo n. (dram-ma-to or'-go) It. lican communion service. In Protestant churches the last stanza of a Dramatist. hymn by Bishop Thomas Ken, bed rang end (dreng'-ent) Ger. part. gin ing Pra " ise God from whom all Hurrying, pre ing on, urging, ble ings flow," is called the doxdrawknob ology. Equivalent to doxologia, A register; one of the projecting (Lat.) and doxologie, (Fr.). knobs or stops manipulated by the drag n. and.v. player of an organ, which when pulled (n.) Such a ritard as above, or a out brings into action certain sets of descending movement of notes in pipes, or couple to each other certain lute-playing. parts of the mechanism. (v.) To lag behind, to slacken draw-stops gradually the time of a composition, The knobs or handles found on the usually in oposition to the intention front of an organ, which upon being of the composer: thus, in con greg a pulled out connect the corresponding tional singing, the people often drag a stops or groups of pipes with the keyhymn. board of the instrument by admitting drag, single wind to them. See single drag. Dreher (dra'-er) Ger. n. Drahtsaite (drat'-zl-te) Ger. n. From the German verb meaning to Wire string, twirl: an old Austrian and Bavarian dramatic music dance. As the name signifies, it be- 1. Operatic music; the musical porlongs to the round dance; it was a tion of an opera, or the incidental country dance of popular style, writ music written to be performed beten probably in three-eight time. The tween the acts of a play. dance and its music are now obsolete. 2. Music which by its nature ex- Drehorgel (dra'-6rg-el) Ger. n. cites emotion in the hearer to the Barrel-organ; hand-organ. point of pa ion, or seems fitted to Drehse el (dra'-zes-sel) Ger. n. represent scenes and events. In the drei (drl) Ger. adj. latter sense the term is applied to Three. Program or descriptive music. See Dreiachteltakt (dri-akht'-el-takt) Ger. also program music and opera, n. aramaticamente (dra-ma-te-ka-men'- Three-eight time. te) It. adv. Dreiangel (dri'-ang-el) Ger. n. Dramatically, A triangle. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music - Dictionary