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See naked. barrage (bar-razh') Fr. n. In guitar and lute playing the plac- Barem (ba'-ram) Ger. n. ing of the left fore-finger on some An obsolete name for an organ stop of the strings, thus shortening the otherwise known as Stillgedackt. The strings and consequently raising the pipes are covered at the top, making the tone very soft. pitch. barre (bar) Fr. n. Barentanz (bar'-en-tants) Ger. n. A bar or perpendicular line drawn Bear dance. An imitation of primi acro the staff to divide the notes tive peasant music with drum and into groups, thus regulating the time shrill piccolo. and air of the composition. bargaret (bar-zha-ra') Fr. n. barre (bar-ra.) Fr. v. barginet (bar-zhe-na) Fr. n. Same as stopping. barrage. Equivalent of An old name for a rustic song to accompany dances. Shepherds' or barre de luth (bar du lut) Fr. pastoral songs. The bridge or small arched piece bar i ba o (ba-ri-bas'-so) It. n. of wood on the face of the lute over A ba -barytone or very deep barywhich the strings pa to the screws tone voice. on which they are stretched. bariolage (ba-re-5-lazh') Fr. n. barred C /^ A medley. In playing violin or C with a bar through it, t similar instruments, an ornamental the sign for ali a breve time, meaning part of the composition, which is that the notes which follow are to be played mostly on the open strings; sounded twice as fast as in common that is, played on the strings without time. It usually stands at the begin pre ing them with the fingers. ning of a piece, instead of 2-2, but baripicni (ba-ri-pik'-ni or ba-re-pek'- is also used to indicate two-one or ne) Grk. adj. four-two time, An ancient Greek term, meaning barrel low tones in general. The cylinder studded with pins which in the barrel organ opens the bar i pic in i suoni (ba-ri-pek'-ne) Grk.; key-valves, and in the music box sets soo-6'-ne It.) Fixed sounds. in vibration the teeth of a steel comb by which the sound is produced. baritenore (ba'-ri-ta-no'-re) It. n. barrel, chime A low tenor voice, almost barytone. baritone _ The revolving cylinder in a mechan- See barytone. ical apparatus for playing chimes. 78 59 barrel organ Ba barrel organ which beside the regular strings had A portable organ. A crank turned sympathetic metal strings pa ing by hand revolves a wooden cylinder under the keyboard. The peculiarly furnished with keys, which open a shaped bridge carries six or seven reg series of valves. Currents of air are ular strings tuned much as they are on in this way forced into pipes of var i the viola da gamba. Partly under it ous length and diameter and the and partly to the right of it is a bra tones produced. By mechanical devices frame carrying a variable number of the valves are opened in melodic strings, from seven to forty-four. The and harmonic order, and the bar lowest string was usually tuned to E rels or cylinders are movable so a and the tuning of the rest varied number of melodies can be played. according to their number, the largest The compa seldom exceeds two and number allowing a pair of strings to one-half octaves and as the tone is each half tone throughout the two incapable of expre ion the music be octaves which comprises the compa comes decidedly monotonous. of the instrument. If the strings were At one time the barrel organ was only seven they were probably tuned used in church services but today is to some diatonic scale. The barytone known only as a means of street enter was invented in the latter half of the tainment and even there is being Seventeenth Century, and was att rib superseded by the street piano. Also uted to English makers, although no called hand organ, English specimens exist, and the inbarrer (bar-ra') Fr. v. strument was used almost exclusively To bar, to obstruct, to stop. In in Germany. Equivalent of viola di guitar playing the act of pre ing all bordone and viola bastard a. the strings against the finger-board, 4. A term applied to any instrument with the left fore-finger, thus raising between the ba and tenor in strut he pitch. ments of the same family. Abbr. bar.