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Verydi slowly, molto (len'-to de mol'-to) It. lowing them. le er sixth leps is lep'-sis) Grk. n. An interval of eight half steps. The A term used in ancient music for same as minor sixth. one of the three branches of melole er third paeia, or the art and rules of compos i- An interval equal to three half tion. By leps is the writer determined whether to place the notes of his steps. The same as minor third, le on melody in the hyp a to ides or lower part of the octave, the netoides or 1. The English name of the suite or the various members of it. upperra)part or the mesoides or middle part. 2. In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries the name for the le er appoggiatura (ap-pod-ja-too'- several exercises or movements for A short appoggiatura; an ornament.harpsichord or piano, which together formed a suite. consisting of a note one degree above or below the principal note, and prelestamente (les-ta-men'-te) It. adv. ceding it,properly written as a small Quickly, nimbly. Written Pl*yefl lestezza (les-tet'-tsa) It. n. Agility; nimblene ; cunning; quickne . 8" lyjji lesti imamente It. adv. Very quickly. (les-tis-si-ma-men'-te) eighth or sixteenth note with a slantlesti imo (les-tis'-sT-mo) It. adj. ing stroke through its hook. It takes Very quick. the accent of the principal note and is les to (les'-to) It. adj. Played very swiftly, varying but slightly in different tempos. ful; gay. nimble; light; lively; cheer- Quick; 321 302 letter-name letter-name A major, and a, the key of A minor. 1. A letter used to designate a tone, Hauptmann invented a system for disnote, key or staff degree. tinguishing fifth sounds and third 2. The first seven letters of the sounds by letters, the capitals stand alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, used ing for fifths, the small letters for to form the letters of the scale and thirds, but this is not accurate enough repeated in every octave. They reprefor scientific usage. Helmholtz in his sent the notes and determine their Lehre von den Tonempfindungen, leve* conpitch. notation trived another method by which the letter lower pitch was indicated by a hori- The indication of musical sounds by zontal stroke under a capital letter for means of letters. It seems to be the the second third above the note, thus: oldest form of notation and was in use ce, eGtt and a similar stroke above a among the Greeks, whose system of capital letter indicates higher pitch for notation was employed by theorists of the second third below the note, thus: Western Europe up the the Tenth a b c, Ft a b. Century, A. D. In the Tenth Cen- Ottingen simplified this method by tury the first seven letters of the using the horizontal stroke, but not Roman alphabet replaced the first the capital. In his system, a stroke seven letters of the Greek alphabet as above a letter indicated an interval of names for the seven sounds of the a third above, a note, a stroke below, diatonic scale, but with a meaning dif an interval of a third below; two fering from the modern meaning. The strokes indicated the second third or western monk, Odo, Abbot of Cluny, according to many authorities, gave three the third, and so on. Unfortuthe letters their present meaning, nately in his second edition of the above named book Helmholtz rethus: ancient A, B, C, D, E, F, G corversed the meaning of the strokes as respond to modern C, D, E, F, G, A, C. used by Ottingen, and therefore it is In old notation C, D and G, A were nece ary to know whether the music half tones; in modern, B, C and E, F follows the arrangement of Ottingen are half steps. About the Tenth Cenor Helmholtz. tury the capitals, small letters and double small letters began to be letter ale adj. (let-te-ra'-le) It. adj. applied to different octaves; someletteralmente (let-te-ral-men'-te) It. times the capitals were continued up to P for the second octave, a system Literally, word for word; exactly as written, we find in use up to the Twelfth Cenletters doubled tury. Modern notation, attributed to Odo, became merged with the system Capital letters doubled (CC) indicate that the tone is an octave lower founded system consisted by Guido of aD'Arezzo. This scale of twenty than that represented by a single capi notes, two octaves and a sixth, of tal (C). Organists usually designate which the first octave was designated by double capitals the third octave by capital letters, the second by small below middle C, which is more generand the sixth by double small letters. ally represented by C. See also dou- The present system of notation was ble letters. fully developed as early as 1619, but letters, Greg or i an the old continued in use after that See Greg or i an letters. time. lettura di music a (let-too'-ra d6 moo'- Letters with chord meanings were zi-ka) It. first used at the beginning of the A musical lecture: a lecture on a Nineteenth Century, the capital letter musical subject. indicating the major chord of the leu to (la-oo'-to) It. adj. sound expre ed by the letters, the Slow: implying a pace and style small letter indicating the minor similar to a slow andante, chord and a small nought marking the leva (la'-va) It. n. diminished triad composed of a note Lift: release; as used in the phrases, plus the note three and one-half steps si leva il sordino, lift the mute, si leva above, plus its imperfect fifth, the i sordino, release the dampers. note three whole tones above it. levS (lu-va'_)in Fr.beating adj. The capital and small letters were Raised: time the up also used to represent the major and stroke of the baton; the unaccented minor keys. Thus A, means the key of part of the measure. 322 303 levet Lichanos meson levet of a body of people on the stage to A blast of a trumpet, probably that form a chorus when it is needed, make by which soldiers are called in the it nece ary that almost every poem morning. Obsolete. or story or drama be especially prepared for operatic treatment. This levezza (le-vet'-tsa) It. n. special arrangement of the whole Lightne . opera is called a book, or libretto.