liberamente

Freely. (le-be-ra-men'-te) It. adv. toned string of the lyre. The ancient Greek double octave system was com libero (le'-be-ro) It. adj. posed of five tetrachords, or groups Free, unrestrained. of four tones. The lichanos hypaton librement was the third sound of the first or Freely. (lebr-man) Fr. adv. lowest tetrachord, and corresponded librettist to the modern D on the third line One who writes the words of opera, of the ba clef. oratorio or drama. libretto Lichanos Grk. meson (lik-a-nos me'-son) A little book: the text of an opera. 1. Middle string of the lyre. It is easily seen that an ordinary dra- 2. The third sound of the meson or matic poem is not, as it stands, suit middle tetrachord, a group of four able for opera. The operatic require tones, in Greek music. This note corments of solos or duets or quartets in responds to the modern G on the suitable places, and the introduction fourth space of the ba clef. 323 304 lit Licdertantz H6 (IS-5') Fr. adj. called the trio and the third group. Tied; bound, smooth: a term mean the second trio, and will be treated ing that each note is to be held until as a second independent piece. the following note is sounded; Lied singen (let zing-en) Ger. marked by a slur connecting the To sing songs. notes so held and played. Equivalent Liedchen (let'-khen) Ger. n. to legato. A little song; short song or melody. lie1Slurred; coulant flowing. (le-a' koo-lafi) Fr. Lieder (le'-der) Ger. n. Songs. Liebesflote (le'-bes-fla-te) Ger. n. Lieder ohne Worte (le'-der 6-ne vor- Literally, love flute. 1. A flute sounding an interval of te) Ger. a minor third, or one and a half Songs without words. Men del stones, below the written notes, theresohn's title for a group of piano fore, standing in A, although often pieces. mistakenly said to be in B natural. Liederbuch (le'-der-bookh) Ger. n. It is now obsolete. Song book. 2. An organ stop of four or eight Lieder bund (le'-der-boont) Ger. n. foot pitch, that is, one whose lowest Singing society. tone is either one or two octaves be- Lieder cyclus (le'-der-si'-kloos) Ger. n. low middle C. Synonym of Liederkreis. Liebeslied (le'-bes-let) Ger. n. Liederdichter (le'-der-dikht-er) Ger. n. Love-song. A lyrical poet; a song composer. Liebhaber (lep'-ha-ber) Ger. n. Lieder krantz (le'-der-krants) Ger. n. Amateur; a lover of music. 1. A choral society. 2. A wreath, that is, a collection or lieblich (lep'-likh) Ger. adj. series of songs. Lovely; sweet toned; charming; often used to describe the tone of Liederkreis (le'-der-kris) Ger. n. certain organ stops. A set of songs which may be sung Lieblichgedacht (lep'-likh-ghe-dakht') separately, but are really one compo- Ger. n. sition, by the unity of thought run- An organ stop composed of pipes ning through the stanzas of the covered at the top and producing a poem to which the music is set. tone typical of the organ and of espe- Sometimes a motive is repeated in vocially sweet quality. cal part or accompaniment for the Lied (let) Ger. n. sake of unity. A song, a ballad, a lay: especially Liedersammlung(le'-der-zam'-loongk) applied to German songs in which Ger. n. there is close unity between the words A collection of songs. and music. There are two kinds of Lieder sanger (le'-der-zeng-er) Ger. n. lieder: strophic, in which the same A ballad singer; a minstrel. music is repeated for each stanza, and Lieder spiel (le'-der-shpel) Ger. n. durch componirt, in which there is Vaudeville: a play with well-known different music for each stanza. or popular airs introduced into it. Lied form (let' form) Ger. The German equivalent to French Song form; melody form. vaudeville and English light opera. 1. Any slight musical form consist- An operetta composed of music and ing of a simple melody simply acdialogue of light and lively character. companied. Liedersprache (le'-der-spra-khe) Ger. 2. According to Herr Bernhard n. Marx, all pieces of music having one Language or words peculiarly fit single idea which is presented, either for songs. in one developed section, or as a Liedertafel (le'-der-ta'-fel) Ger. n. period with first and second phrase, Societies organized to practise male or as a period divided into first and part songs, which met informally, second similar parts, or first, second singing, eating and drinking; they and third parts, the third part here have greatly promoted the develop being a repetition of the first. Two ment of the art of male part-singing. such complete forms may be com- Liedertafler (le-der-tef'-ler) Ger. n. bined in one piece, but occur without Glee-singers. close connection, perhaps with the Liedertantz (le'-der-tants) Ger. n. two parts twice or thrice repeated. A dance into which songs are in- In this case the second group will be troduced.