locrense

One of (lo-kren'-se) Grk. n.or modes. the ancient tones A note used in old mensur- )M] Locrian (lo-kri-an) Eng. adj. from the able music, that is, music ex- I Grk. pre ing a determinate time value of The adjective applied to the elevthe tones in its notes, equal in value enth ecclesiastical mode, that is, to to half the large, or to four semi one of the scales used in the church breves, or in modern notation equal music of the Middle Ages. This mode to four whole notes, had a theoretical, but not a practical, existence, and little if any music was long It.appoggiatura (ap-pod-ja-too'-ra) written in it, because of the false rela- An ornament consisting of a small tion or contradiction of mi and fa. note before, and a degree above or be- Its theoretical range is from B below low, a note of the melody. It receives middle C upward through an octave. half the time value of the melody Its semitones lie between the first note, and second and.third and fourth thirds or its if value. that note is dotted, two- I tones. Its dominant, or fifth degree, Written m above the keynote is g' It is also called Hypers eolian, because its range te & lies a tone above that of the true $ ^Eolian. Among the Greek modes Locrian was another name applied to the Hyperphrygian mode. See also Hyperphrygian, Greek modes and music, and church modes. logarithms mm w s m w w Seel a also appoggiatura. Mathematical formulas used to ^P yed show differences of pitch and first emlong, double An old character equal in duration system ployed is in this more way frequently by Enler.usedBrigg's with to four breves, or in modern notation to eight whole notes. See also duplex longa. base 2, giving for the octave 1,000,- 000. Logarithms expre , in short, for long drum mulas, mathematical determinations of pitch, relationships and relative The large drum used in military vibration numbers or string lengths bands, and called the ba drum. It for the various musical intervals. is held horizontally and struck on both sides with stuffed-knob drumlogeum (lo-ge'-um) Lat. n. sticks. The stage of the Greek theater. The wide, shallow space of parallelogram shape, in the middle of which the chief actors usually spoke. Behind long mordent P3W A mordent of four notes; an embellishment consisting of the princithis was another quadrangular space pal note and the note below it twice called proscenium, not so wide as the repeated, thus: logium. The remainder of the logium right and left beyond the proscenium had a wall rising behind it as high as the highest tier of spectators. The same as pulpitum. long particular metre Logier i an system See metre, long particular. A system of musical instruction in long rest vented and introduced by John Bern- A rest used during the Twelfth to hard Logier, in which piano instruc- Fourteenth Century and equal in 328 309 long rest low soprano value to the note called a long, which lour dement (loord-man) Fr. adv. po e ed twice the time value of a Heavily; without liveline , modern whole note, loure (loor) Fr. n. long roll 1. The derivation of this word is A series of drum beats; a pro uncertain. It may come from the longed rolling of the drum; a military Latin word lur a, meaning bag. The signal for attack or rally. word loure as originally used in long spiel France meant a kind of bagpipe used An ancient Icelandic stringed inby the peasants of France, especially strument, long and narrow, and northern France. played upon with a bow. 2. The word also^ signifies an old long trill dance moderately lively and usually See trill, long, in six-four time. It was danced to the accompaniment of the loure, and longa (16n'-ga) Lat. adj. this accounts for its name. Equivalent to long. longitudinal vibrations 3. The word loure as applied to The vibrations of columns of air in style meant that the music was to wind instruments and the vibrations resemble the old bagpipe airs. of strings, where they are struck in loure (loo-ra') Fr. adj. the direction of their length. This is Joined, said of notes; slurred; that the opposite of cro vibration, the is, in written music, when two or usual vibration of strings. more notes are joined by a curved longue pause (long'-poz) Fr. line written above or below them, and Long pause: a direction meaning to indicating that each note is to be held make a long pause or rest. until the following note begins to sound. lontananza (16n-ta-nan'-tsa) It. n. Remotene ; distance; as used in louvre (loovr) Fr. n. the phrase, in lontananza, from a dis- A dance adapted to an air called tance, far away. L'aimable vainquer, said to have been lontano (16n-ta'-no) It. adj. a favorite of Louis XIV. Other au- Distant, as an adverb, a great way thorities consider it to have been a off. As used in the direction phrase, kind of jig or waltz. It has since tromba da lontano, a trumpet played formed song the air of a well-known dance. love in the distance. loop A song, the words and melody of 1. The vibrating portion of a body which are expre ive of love. bounded by two modes; or parts of low the body which remain motionle , 1. Soft; not loud. unaffected by the vibrations of the other portion. 2. A word of relative meaning, ap- 2. A cord fastening tailpiece to the plied to any part, pa age or note sit button on the violin. uated beneath or lower in pitch than some other part, pa age or note. LSsung, fortschreitende (fort'-shrilow ba ten-de la'-zoongk) Ger. Resolution; that is, substitution of Second ba : a ba voice, or part, a harmonious group of tones for an lower in pitch than the first ba . The inharmonious group. All in harm on is a me as second ba . ous groups or di onances are tempo- Low Ma rary substitutions for harmonious A ma in the Roman Catholic groups, and the resolution usually Church, said in a low tone of voice consists in the replacing of di oby the celebrant, and not accompannances by changing them one step or ied by the musical rendering of the tone into consonances or harmonious different parts. If music is used segroups of notes. lected hymns relating to the feast or loud pedal season are sung. Two candles only A piano mechanism which raises all are used, one on each side of the altar, the dampers from the strings, allow and there are no a istants except the ing the tones struck to be sustained altar server. and broadened. Also called the low soprano damper, open, or extension pedal, A voice lower in range than first