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mo'-tocon Ardent desire. Also panting, short- ) It. moto (an-dan'-te kon ne of breath, but an samen to is more Moving easily, gracefully: with usual in this case. more emotion than andante alone, a an emo chord (a-nem'-6-kord) Eng. n. httle faster than andante. anemocorde (a-na-mo-kord) Fr. n. andant6'-ez6)graIt. zioso (an-dan'-te gra-tsi- A pneumatic stringed instrument invented by J. J. Schnell, a piano manu- Rather slowly and with grace. facturer of Paris, in 1789. It resemandante largo (an-dan'-te lar'-go) It. bled a piano and had small bellows Slow, broad, distinct and exact, which forced the air against the andante ma non troppo (an-dan'-te strings to give the sounds of an vEoma non trop-po) It. lian harp. This idea was further de- Rather slow but not too much so. veloped by Kalkbrenner and Henri 53 34 anemocorde anhaltende Kadenz Herz who constructed a similar in generally known as vox angelica be strum ent in 1851 and called it piano eolien. voice. cause of its sweet tone or " angelic " anemometer 2. A small keyboard instrument of An appliance used in ascertaining the Seventeenth Century. It was the amount of wind re.quired to sound strung with seventeen strings plucked organ pipes. It consists of a gla with little quills. tube bent in the form of an S turned angelophone (an'-gel-6-fon) Eng. n., on its side. Water is poured into the rare. upper end and the other end is fitted An early name for the harmonium into a socket placed over one of the or parlor organ. See harmonium. holes in the sounding-board into Angelus (an'-je-lus) Eng. and Lat. n. which a pipe is to fit. The bellows A prayer to the Virgin, beginning are then operated and the wind pa - Angelus Domini (the angel of the ing through one opening of the tube Lord), offered in the morning, at forces the water through the U-shaped noon, and in the evening at the sound section of the tube on which are in of the bell, which is also called the dicated inches. From this has grown angelus. Pope Urban II. instituted the expre ion that pipes are voiced this custom. at three, six or ten inch pre ure. adj. angeme en (an'-ge-mes'-sen) Ger. anes is and (an'-e-sis) Lat. Eng. n. from Grk. Adapted to; appropriate; suitable. A relaxing, lowering in pitch, of strings: the descent from acute to angenehm (an'-ge-nam) Ger. adj. grave, higher to lower. Opposite of Ageeable; pleasing: sweet. epitasis. angkloung A crude Javanese (ank'-loong) n. instrument made Anfang (an'-fangk) Ger. n. of different lengths of bamboo fast- Commencement, beginning. Vom anfang is equivalent to da capo. Als ened to a strip of wood. An instrument of the zylophone variety, zu anfang equals a tempo primo. anglaise (ari-glez) Fr. adj. and n. Anfanger (an-feng'-er) Ger. n. English: an English air; a tune suit- Beginner. able for the country dance, ballad, or