luttuosamente

It. adv. (loot-too-6-sa-men'-te) the sounds. 2. A name applied to the viol played Mournfully; sadly; sorrowfully. according to this tablature, which was luttuoso (loot-too-6'-so) It. adj. somewhat smaller than the other two Mournful; sad; sorrowful. sizes of viol then in use and had six Lydian (lid'-i-an) Eng. adj. from Grk. strings. Music was written for it on The name applied to one of the a staff of six lines, a line for each Greek and also to one of the medieval string, and the stopping was indicated modes or scales. In Greek music it by letters placed on or above the had this form: lines, thus: a, open string, b, first fret; i c, d, e, f, g, h, succe ive half-note ct^ b— a — g. —. f^e i — • d -— c stoppings. The viol fingerboard had — indicates a whole step; w ind i only seven frets, so when such letcates ahalf step; r-*—^ connects the ters as i, k, 1, and m appeared, they tones forming a tetrachord or group meant that the strings were to be of four tones; + marks the diazeuxis stopped above the last fret, according or tone separating the tetrachords. to the way judgment of the performer. Lydian was also the name of one of lyra the Greek scales beginning on F*. em- 1. In ancient Greek music, one of bracing two octaves, and formed of the two accepted modes of notation, five tetrachords. used for the lyre. 331 312 lyra way 2. A medieval term for a certain small, having Lytierse seven strings, and be system of letter notation used in music ing held in the hand while played for the viol da gamba, a six-stringed upon. See also lyre, instrument, the music for which was lyre written on a staff of six lines, one for An guitar instrument which was popular each string. Also called Lero viol. toward the end of the Eighteenth Century and in the early years of the lyre Nineteenth. It consisted of a quadlyre (ler) Fr. n. rangular body from which projected An ancient musical instrument of two arms connected at the top with Asiatic origin much used by the Greeks, and intimately connected with a cro -bar, resembling the ancient their musical history. It consists of lyre. The strings were tuned and a hollow sound-chest or body from played as are those of the guitar. which two arms, sometimes also hollyre, Mercurian low, curved outward and forward. The One of the earliest of musical instruments made of the shell of a torarms were connected by a cro -bar toise and having seven strings. or yoke, and on the sound-chest was another cro -bar which served as a bridge to convey the vibration of the 1. Originally this adjective meant lyric strings to the sound-chest. In earliest pertaining to the lyre, for accompaniment by the lyre; hence, adapted for times the strings were four in numsinging or expre ing in song. ber, then Terpander, a Greek musician 2. In the modern sense, a short of the Seventh Century, B. C, raised the number to seven. poem of simple and emotional char- After Pythagoras studied in Egypt acter. Music, especially songs ext he lyre was fitted with eight strings pre ing some particular subjective to accommodate itself to the new emotion as distinguished from epic, or narrative music and dramatic octave scale, and later the number of music. strings was raised to ten. They were lyric comedy made of gut and stretched between Comedy in which vocal music forms the yoke and the bridge, or sometimes a principal part; comic opera. between the yoke and a tailpiece below the bridge. lyric drama accompanied Acting by singing; The lyre was played by being struck with a plectrum, and also by plucking the strings with the left hand. There opera. form lyric were several species of lyre, the larger A composition whose themes are not treated in the manner of the called cithara, being supported by a rondo or sonata, in which the first ribbon theme is not returned to after the shoulders,slung or by acro a ribbon the player's it fastening to the left hand of the player and presentation of each new theme, nor supported by it, and the smaller sort, is its second theme repeated in the called chelys, held by the left arm or key built on the first note of the scale after being given out by the key between the knees. The lyre is imof the fifth note. portant because of the influence it had on the development of Greek music, lyric opera and because it was a germ from Opera in which the expre ion of which sprung many of our modern subjective feeling and the lyric form musical instruments. of poetry predominate over the heroic; sentiment over action. lyre iEolian lyric stage Equivalent to ^Eolian harp, which The operatic stage, see. lyric tragedy lyre, double Tragic opera, An ancient instrument entirely obsolete, but supposed to have been a lyrical lyrisch (lir'-Tsh) Ger. adj. kind of viol da gamba. Equivalent to Lyric. lyra doppia. Lytierse (lit-i-er'-se) Grk. n. lyre, Grecian The name given by the ancient A lyre of the ancient Greeks, quite Greeks to the Song of the Reapers. 332 M ma (ma) It. conj. maciciconici (ma-che-che -ko'-ne-che ) But, as used in the phrase, vivace It. n. ma non troppo, fast but not too fast. An old name for one of the chorj ministri minores, le er a istants of machalath (ma'-ka-lath) Heb. n. the choir of a cathedral, who added A term employed in the title of cerpa ing notes between intervals of the tain psalms. It is traced by some authorities to a root meaning pierced plain-song, or, according to some auor bored, hence it is thought that thorities, added a part to the plain these psalms were accompanied by song at an interval of a third or flutes. This term is also considered fourth. by some to indicate familiar tunes, to mac i cot at i cum (mas-T-ko-ta-tl-kum) which the psalms were to be sung. Lat. n. Equivalent to machi cot age.