False

(Ger. falsch; Fr. faux, fau e; It. falso,-2.) Wrong;" not true to pitch, out of tune... False cadence, chord, fifth, harmony, see the nouns... False ‘relation, also inharmonic rel., ero -rel, an’ harmonic discrepancy arising from the chromatic contradiction of a tone in one part by another part. In equal counterpoint it is apt to occur at a modulation, and consists in sounding, either simultaneously or succe ively, a tone and its chromatically altered octave. The former case is generally confined to pa ing-notes in figuration, and then has no ill effect; the latter case occurs when a chromatically changed tone, which might have been reached in one part by the step of a chromatic semitone, enters in another octave in another part the effect is harshest in pa ing from’a major chord toaparal- J lel minor Falset’to (It.; Ger. Falsett’; Fr. voix de fau et, fau et.) The highest of the 3 vocal registers (chest-voice, head-voice, falsetto), so named from its forced or unnatural character; often reckoned to the head-register... Fa/se¢’tist, a falsetto singer. Fal’so,-a (It.) False... Fa o bordone, ( ) see Faburden; (5) the reciting-note.