Hauptstimme

n. (howpt'-shtim-me) Ger. haute-de us (ot-des-su) Fr. n. Principal part or voice. High treble, soprano, haute-taille (6t-ta-e) Fr. n. Hauptthema (howpt'-te-ma) Ger. n. High tenor, Chief theme or subject. haute ment (6t-mai i) Fr. adv. Hauptton (howpt'-ton) Ger. n. Haughtily; boldly, Literally, head tone, principal tone. hay. 1- Fundamental tone. 2. Principal accent. A figure in a dance common in Eng- 3- The keynote. land during the reign of Elizabeth. The origin of the name is uncertain, at and little that is definite is known 01ft,the first a three-tone chord consisting note of a scale plus notes about it. From allusions made to it.intervals of a minor third and a fifth, this term is applied to the note by writers of that time it appears to at an interval of a fifth. have been a winding figure dance, something of a quadrille figure, the 269 hay 250 heraufgehen women standing still in a row, and stops and is capable of producing a the men dancing among them. Again tone an octave higher than the other, an equal number of men and women thus adding brilliancy danced it after the manner of a reel. wise would be a hollow to tone, what other head 1. The membrane stretched upon a hem i diapente (hem-i-di-a-pen'-te) Grk. drum. Diminished or imperfect fifth: a per- 2. That part of the violin or other n.fect fifth or three and a half tones stringed instrument in which the pegs diminished by a half tone; an interval are inserted. of three whole tones, 3. The point of the bow. he midi to nos An interval(her a-I-dit'-6-nos) of a minor or Grk.le ern. 4. The portion of a note which determines its position on the staff. third, or one and a half tones, head voice The upper or highest register of the hemiola (hem-i-o-la) Grk. n. voice. hemiolia (hem-i-6'-li-a) Grk. n. Literally, the whole and a half; heckle phone technically, the proportion of two to The baritone oboe having a pitch three. The word is used in the latter an octave lower than the ba oon. sense in medieval music to denote an Only recently has it come into gen interval containing three whole tones eral use. heel and one semitone, the sound of which A kind of a wooden brace which is produced on the monochord by joins the neck of a violin and similar two-thirds of the open string. This instruments, to the body. Abbr. H. term is also applied by writers of the Sixteenth Century to certain rhyth- Heerhorn (har'-horn) Ger. n. mical proportions, corresponding to Heer is the German for army; the triplets of modern music; also a hence, a military trumpet; a battle group of three notes introduced, in horn. the midst of a piece, in place of two. heftig (hef'-tekh) Ger. adj. hemiope (hem-f-5-pe) Ger. n. Vehement; boisterous; impetuous. A flute having three finger holes, Heftigkeit (hef'-tekh-kit) Ger. n. used by the ancient Greeks, Vehemence; violence; impetuousne . heptachord 1. A series(hep'-ta-kord) of seven notes.Grk n. heimlich (him'-likh) Ger. adj. 2. An instrument with seven strings. Private; secluded; mysterious, hei (his) Ger. adj. 3. Interval of a seventh. Hot; ardent; burning. 4. In Greek music, a series of seven heiter (hl'-ter) Ger. adj. tones, with a half-tone step between Clear; serene; bright. the third and fourth. Heldenlied (hel'-den-let) Ger. n. heptade (hep'-tad) Heroic song. heptad ech ord (hep-tad'-e-cord) heldenmuthig (hel'-den-mu-tikh) Ger. Terms invented by John Alexander adj. Ellis, and used in his system of Heroic: of heroic courage. acoustics in the appendices to the Heldentenor (hel'-den-ten-or) Ger. n. second On English work, edition of ofHelmholtz's the Sensations Tone, Literally, heroic tenor; dramatic tenor, hept a meris (hep-tam'-e-ris) Grk. n. helicon The seventh part of a meris, which Helikon (hel'-I-kon) Ger. n. is the sixth part of an octave; hence, 1. An ancient instrument made by the forty-second part of an octave. the Greeks for measuring the inter- Herabstrich (har-ap'-strikh) Ger. n. vals between different tones. Literally, down stroke; down stroke 2. A modern bra wind instrument of the bow on a stringed instrument. much used in bands. It is a circular heralds trumpet-family instrument and is car- A name formerly applied to minried over the shoulder while march str els, because _ on account of the ing. It has a low register. strength of their voices, they were hell (hel) Ger. adj. a igned the duty of animating the Bright; clear; sonorous, soldiers in battle, and of making helper proclamations at public festivities. A pipe which in some organs is heraufgehen (har-owf'-gi-Sn) Ger. v. placed beside another pipe of certain To ascend. 270 high 251 Her auf strich Her auf strich (har-owf'-shtrikh) Ger. n. hexachorde (Sg-za-kord') Fr. n. From herauf, meaning up toward See hexachord. the speaker; hence, an upward stroke hexachord, natural of the bow made toward the player, See natural hexachord. herauts (a-ro) Fr. n. hey hexameron (hek-sam'-e-ron) Grk. n. Heralds, A name given to a group of six The American History and Encyclopedia of Music - Dictionary