Grund ton art (groont'-ton-art) Ger. n

Literally, fundamental kind of tone: the main key in which the compos i guide (ged) Fr. n. tion is written. guide 1. A music-director. 2. A book of instruction. A turn, or(groo-p€t'-to) gruppetto It. n.turn, a trill. See also 3. A musical sign * gruppo (groop'-po) It. n. of page end a staff at or the placed w>**or,f to indicate to the A group of short notes tied to player the position of the first note on gether. 258 239 d r) the next staff or guide page; also called a guimbarrde (gafi-babard)Fr. n. direct. guim b a (gai i - Fr. n. 4. The leading theme of a fugue, The French name for jews'-harp. called subject, in contradistinction to the answering themes. gui on (ge-6n') A repeat sign.Spa. n. guide-main (ged man) Fr. gut An apparatus designed to a ist guitare (gi-tar) Fr. beginners in holding their hands and guitar An instrument having a body wrists in correct position while play greatly resembling that of the violin ing on the piano; also called a chiro in outline but with a flat body and plast; a guide for the hands. belly. It is furnished with six strings, guide, wrist three of them gut, and three silk That part of the guide-main which over spun with silver. They pa from holds the wrist in position, an ebony bridge near the lower part guidon (ge-dof i) Fr. n. of the body, over a sound-hole to pegs A direct; a sign at the end of a line at the extreme end of the neck, which showing what the next note is to be. is fretted. The guitar is in reality a See guide. Spanish instrument and po e es a Guidon i an dreamy voice especially adapted to Relating to Guido vocal accompaniment. Benedictine monk who D'Arezzo, became ana eminent revolutionist in music during guitare A small d'amore sized (gi-tar d'a-moor') violoncello Fr. furnished the first half of the Eleventh Century. with six strings tuned like those of He substituted the hexachord, or scale the guitar, of six tones for the tetrachord, a series of four ones used by the Greeks, guitare lyre (gi-tar ler) Fr. See lyre guitar. as the unit of musical analysis. This system was replaced in the Eighteenth guitarra (ge-tar'-ra) Spa. n. Century by the octave. See also Guitarre (gi-tar'-re) Ger. n. Guitar. Guido's gamut. guitern (ge-tern) Fr. n. Guidon i an Hand A former name for the guitar, A diagram designed by Guido congunibry sisting of an outstretched left hand, A Syrian instrument having a slenwith the syllables which he had der body sometimes formed like the applied to the scales marked on the figure 8. It is furnished with three tips and joints of the fingers. This strings which are plucked with a was used in memorizing the syllables, as: the tip of the thumb stood for the plectrum. Gunst (goonst) Ger. n. first note G and its singing syllable ut, Favor; grace. G ut; the first joint of the thumb for A re; the second joint, B mi, etc. guracho (goo-ra'-cho) Spa. n. See guaracha.