mordant

See mordent. (mor-dafi') Fr. pipe and tabor, clashing of swords and jingling of anklets. Melodies of mordent Eng. different kinds were a ociated with mordent (mor-denf) Ger. it. It was popular in Spain, and for Literally, bite, hence applied to an a time in England. ornament resembling a portion of a trill. This embellishment, also called moresque (mor-resk') The Morris Fr. dance. or Moorish n. See a pa ing shake, consists of two or also moresca. more notes preceding the principal note, for example: ^v Morgengesang Ger. n. (mor'- gen - ge - zang') showing a short or single, and a long Morgen lied (mor'-gen-let) Ger. n. Morning song; hymn; matins. or double mordent, respectively. There is some confusion Morgen stand chen khen) Ger. n. (mor' - gen - shtent- m ■»4» in ture the nomencla A morning serenade; an aubade or mor-is concert in the open air. zp; dent. of The the term ^^ moriente (mo-ri-en'-te) It. adj. sometimes applied See morendo. to an embellishment having the note^J~ •above the principal note, as an auxili- | morisk (mo'-risk) ary, but this is usually called the in- An English country dance in four four time and supposedly of Moorish verted mordent, Praller or Pralltriller, origin. See also Morris dance, and is indicated by a sign without the It. n. cro stroke. When there is an acm or mora men to (mor-mo-ra-men'-te) companying note to that over which A murmur; warbling; rumbling; the mordent sign is written it is buzzing. struck simultaneously with the first note of the mordent. The accent is mormorando (mor-mo-ran'-do) It. adj. sometimes on the first, sometimes on adj. le mormorevo (mor-mo-ra'-vo-le) It. the last or principal note, and the mormoroso (m6r-m5-ro'-s5) It. adj. Germans make a distinction by call- Murmuring; buzzing: in a gentle, ing the first kind Praller, the latter murmuring, whispering manner, Schneller. Over short notes, and in morrice dance rapid pa ages the accent usually See Morris dance. falls on the first note. Morris dance mordent, inverted A figure dance, a precursor of the An ornament of the same character fandango, taking its name from the 360 341 Morris dance motive, measure Moors, who probably originated it. the madrigal only in having sacred Although it was not popular before words. See also madrigal. the reign of Henry VIII. it was prob motet to per so-la') voci sole ably introduced into England by Edvo'-che It. (mo-tet'-to par ward III. when John of Gaunt re- A motet for voice-parts with no turned from Spain. Some of the accompaniment. masquers had bells, tuned to different motet us (mo-te'-tus) notes so as to sound in harmony, at- A medieval term forLat. n. motet, tached to their many colored garbs motif (mo-tef) Fr. n. and as they danced they clashed steels Motive; theme; subject, or swords. Skilful masquers had bells motion fixed on their feet and they moved 1. The melodic change of a voice them so as to produce a pleasing or voice-part from one pitch to an melody. other; melodic progre ion. It is In early times the Morris dance was concrete, conjunct or conjoint when performed by five men and a boy, who it consists of a single step, discrete was dre ed in the garb of a girl, and or disjunct when of a skip. who was called Maid Marian. Later when it became a ociated with the _ 2. In harmony the melodic progre ion of any two voice-parts is in rela- May Day festivities, Robin Hood, tion to each other. Friar Tuck and Little John were in motion, contrary troduced. With these dances there The melodic progre ion of any two were one or two musicians. Some voice-parts in contrary or opposite times one of the dancers, more gaily when one rises and the other falls, dre ed than the others, acted as motion, direct leader of the dance. The melodic progre ion of two Like other dances, it was suppre ed voice-parts is direct when both follow by the Puritans, but some elements of the same direction, up or down. Same it still linger in the country dance of as similar motion, the same name in North England, motion, oblique