Tempobezeichnung

noongk) Ger. n. (tem-p5-be-tsikh'- Thursday and Good Friday, being the Matins and Lauds a igned to those Time making: the sign that shows the kind of measure. days. The name is given from the circumstance of extinguishing, during temporiser (tiin-por-T-za) Fr. v. the course of the ceremony, all the To delay; to temporize: in playing candles in the sanctuary. These rites, an accompaniment, to accommodate as well as all others during this week, the time to that taken by the solo performer, symbolize the darkne and gloom temps (tan) Fr. n. attending the crucifixion. Time; time strike: the time divi- At the beginning of the service, six sions of a measure. candles on the altar, and fifteen placed on a standard in triangular arrange- 537 518 tenebrse Tenors tim me ment on the epistle, left, side, signify air, of plain song, then the only real the lights of faith preached by the part in composition. prophets and Christ; the triangular 2. The part written for the tenor candlestick is the symbol of the voice. Abbr. t. Trinity. tenor C At the repetition of the antiphons, 1. The lowest C in the tenor voice, responsive singing, fourteen of the one octave below middle C. candles arranged in the triangle, are 2. The lowest string of the violas or extinguished, and at the last six verses tenor violin. of the Benedictus, which follows, the tenor clef altar candles are put out, to teach that The tenor clef is the C the Jews were deprived of the light clef placed on the fourth of faith when they put the Saviour to line of the staff, which see. death. The fifteenth candle, at the apex of the triangle, signifying the tenor, second light of the world, Jesus Christ, is The lower tenor voice: a voice be only hidden for a time behind the tween tenor and barytone. altar and is brought out again still tenor staff burning. This is to show that Christ, A staff marked with the tenor clef, though he died in his humanity was tenor trombone always alive in his divinity, by which The trombone which is used most he rose again. extensively and is pitched to afford In this darkne which pervades the a compa similar to that of the tenor sanctuary the Miserere, the cry for voice, mercy, is sung with great effect, and tenor violin the noise which follows represents A violin about a seventh larger than the confusion of nature at the crucithe regular violin and three and a half fixion. tones lower in pitch. In pitch it cor-