cetera (cha'-te-ra) It. n

See cither. chalumeau register. Found in clarinet music this term indicates that the ceterante (cha-te-ran'-te) It. n. composition is to be played an octave A player upon the cithern or guitar, lower than written. Abbr. chal. ceterare (cha-te-ra'-re) It. v. chamade (sha-mad') Fr. n. To play upon the cithern or guitar, Parley: the military term means a ceterista (cha-te-res'-ta) It. n. drum-beat as a signal of parley or A player upon the guitar or cither: surrender. an instrument of the guitar family chamber band now practically obsolete, A band of musicians who play only ceterizzare (cha-ter-id-za'-re) It. v. chamber music or music adapted to or To cither, sing with or play upon the guitar performance in private rooms or small concert-halls. cetra chamber music See (cha'-tra) cither, Any music suitable to be performed cha chi (cha-che) Chi. privately, or in a room or small con- A Chinese musical instrument simcert-hall, as contrasted with church ilar to the kin, which has a body of music, orchestra music or opera. The thin wood and five silk strings of difterm is le often applied to concerted ferent sizes. _ The cha chi is tuned to pieces for solo instruments, as to the the chromatic scale or scale having sonata form, or quartets, trios and duets. twelve half tones to an octave. 115 96 chamber organ chant chamber organ changing-chord A small portable organ, either reed In ancient counterpoint, entering or otherwise, designed for use in a unaccented, and then skipping. In small room, ancient counterpoint a chord that chamber pitch or tone enters on an unaccented part of the This is the pitch adopted by the measure, then transposes into another Paris Academie in 1859 when A once key more than a whole tone higher or lower. accented (a'), that is, A on the second changing note space of the treble staff, was fixed at 870 simple or 435 double varia- 1. A name applied by theorists to tions per second. Equivalent to nor those notes which do not form a part mal pitch, of the chords which they accompany, chamber style but which connect those chords and In the style of chamber music suit carry the ear more smoothly from able to be played in chamber concerts. one to another. They usually occur chamber voice on the unaccented part of a bar. A voice especially suited to per- 2. A note which takes the place of forming chamber music. a note in the chord and lies one degree above or below it. chamberga (cham-bar'-ga) Spa. n. 3. Also, an auxiliary note from A Spanish dance, which is usually which the tones descend an interval accompanied by song. change of a third. The equivalent of pa ing note. 1. The various arrangements and alternations of tones produced on a channels peal or set of bells tuned to the scale. In the organ the separate parts of 2. In harmony a change means a the wind chest into which the air is modulation, or in a composition a pumped and stored, and by which the pa ing from one key to another. wind is conveyed to pipes. All the 3. In the voice, the change from pipes belonging to one stop are placed over the same channel. The wind the boy's to the man's voice. gains acce to the channels by means change, enharmonic of a channel valve. A pa age where the notation is changed but not the sound, and where chanson (shan-son) Fr. n. the same keys of the instrument are A song: originally a kind of ballad, used. This can be effected on an now a vocal solo with piano accomordinary keyed instrument only, paniment. Abbr. chans. where intervals of le than a half Fr. chanson bachique (shan-sofi ba-kek') tone can be ignored. For instance, if the phrase, A — Bb — C, were changed Bacchic songs: drinking songs. to A — At — C, on instruments like the Fr. de geste (shan-son du zhest) chanson piano, whereon there are only whole and half tones, the same note would Songs of achievements: heroic represent B flat and A sharp, and the poems. The romances and deeds of two phrases would sound alike, valor sung by the wandering min change ringing strels of the Middle Ages, particularly The art of ringing a peal of bells in France. in a regularly varying order so as to chanson des rues (shan-sofi da. rii) Fr. produce every combination which the Songs of the street: popular songs number of bells makes po ible. such as are heard at vaudeville or on changeable the streets. A name for chants which may be chansonnette (shan-son-net') Fr. sung in either the major or minor A little song; a short song; a popumode of the key in which they are lar part song. written. The major mode is that chansonnier (shaii-sun-ya') Fr. n. having an interval of a major third A composer of songs and ballads, above the first note of the scale, and chant the minor mode is that having an Originally the only interpretation of interval of a minor third above the the word was song, a meaning which first note. is retained in the French word. Since changer de jeuthe(shafi-zha' the time of Gregory the term has To change play: to du zhu) the change Fr. applied to all vocal music in which registers or stops in an organ. several syllables of the text are re- 116 97 chant chantries cited to one note of the accompani- It was written in heroic form and ment. This style is adapted to com closed with a stanza containing dedipositions having prose text, as the cation, recapitulation and moral. canticles and psalms, the melody chant sacre (shan sakr') Fr. being very slow and in no degree Sacred music. marked or flowing, chant, single Fr. A simple melody of several parts