a mathematically perfect scale

2. A breathing-mark; also the sign comodamente (ko - mod a-men'-te) It. adv. for a backfall, coule or tremblement. See table of signs. Easily: without ef- Common turn fort; with composure. comma ditonicum (kom'-a di-ton'-icomodo (ko-mo'-do) adv. kum) Lat. Comfortable; easy. It. See comma of Pythagoras, compa comma of Didymus The range or scale which a voice The difference between the major or instrument is able to produce, from and minor whole tone or the ratio of the lowest to the highest. eighty to eighty-one, as worked out compensation mixture by Didymus, a Greek mathematician An organ stop connected with the and theorist, who with other scienpedals and composed of pipes, several tists revised the Greek musical of which sound at different pitches scale, when a single key is depre ed. This comma of Pythagoras stop is used with various other pedal The difference between the seventh stops to reinforce and brighten the octave or interval of eight tones tone. and the twelfth fifth or interval adj. of three whole tones and one half compiacente (kom-pi-a-chan'-te) It. tone, above the given note. This is Complaisant; amiable. named after Pythagoras, a Greek theorist, who omitted C, a major It. adj. com piacevole (kom - pi - a-cha'-v5-le') third, from the highest tone on the Pleasing; charming; delightful; seven-stringed Greek lyre, because it complaisant. was a discord. compieta Complin (kom-pi-a'-ta) It. n. or evening prayers. The commanum) syntonumLat. (kom'-a sin-to'- last of the seven canonical hours, See comma of Didymus. definite periods of daily prayer in the commencer (kom-mafi-sa') Fr. v. Roman Catholic Church service. To begin, to start, to commence. common chord complainte (kofi-plant') Fr. n. A wailing; a lament: a religious A chord composed of the fund a ballad. mental note, or note upon which the complement chord is built, plus a note an interval That quantity which is lacking to of a third above it, plus another note any given interval not wider than an at an interval of a fifth. octave to complete or fill up an common measure octave. For example, to any note See common time, taken with its fourth, the fifth above common time the upper of two notes is the quantity Four-four time, having four quarter wanting, and hence the complement. 141 122 complementary part compound appoggiatura complementary part more half tones. So called because The part in fugue which is added to half tones when combined lose their the subject, or main theme or motive, individuality and form whole tones, and the counter subject, or second theme in double fugues and fugues compos it eur (koi i-po-ze-tur') Fr. n. A composer: one who writes music, with two subjects. composition complete cadence 1. The art of originating and con- 1. A perfect cadence. When the struct ing and writing music, either on verse of a chant ends on the first note new material or on a subject sug of the scale in which the chant is gested by some outside influence or written. already existing. 2. A cadence or closing phrase 2. A piece of music written more which brings to mind emphatically or le according to the rules of the key in which it is written and this art. fully satisfies the expectation roused 3. In an organ,, a particular comby the discordant nature of a fore bin at i on of sounds which form a com going chord, or completes the effect pound stop. begun by that chord. 4. A mechanical arrangement on When the chord built on the dom i the organ, by which a combination of nant or fifth note of the scale is folstops may be used or shut off, by lowed by the chord built on the first opening or closing a valve or by using note of the scale, with foundation a pedal which acts upon the slider or notes of both chords in the base, and strip of wood which turns the air on the foundation note of the second or off the pipes. tone is repeated by the highest voice composition, free it is called a complete cadence. A composition which deviates somecompletorium (kom - pie - to' - ri - urn) what from the rules of harmony, Eng. n. from the Lat. composition pedal completory An organ pedal capable of drawing A service containing prayers and out or pushing in several stops at said at the close of the day. In the once. service as arranged by St. Ambrose, composition, strict an anthem supplementary to an anti- A composition that adheres rigidly phon or short Scripture sentence sung to then. rules governing harmony, before and after the psalms for the day or the canticles for the season in composizione (kom-po-ze-tsi-6'-ne) It. the service of lauds, the first canonical A composition, a musical work, hour, and in the vesper or evening composizione de tavolino (kom-po-zeservice. tsT-6'-ne de ta-vo-le'-no) It. complin Table compositions: music to be Lat. (kom'-plin) Eng. n. from sung at table, such as glees, catches The seventh and last of the can on i and rounds. cal hours of the Roman Catholic compos so (kom-pos'-so) It. adj. ritual. It is sung after vespers, some- Composed, set to music. times with and sometimes without a compost i (kom-pos-te) It. adj. pause between services. Part of its Compound: applied to time in ritual is invariable and part changes music. with the seasons. adj. compos to (kom-po'-sto) It. part, and