percant (per-san')

Piercing; shrill, Fr. adj. cadence results when the chord of the percu ion dominant, or the fifth note in the The striking or sounding of a note scale, is followed by the chord of the or a chord, or an instrument of per tonic, or the keynote, with the key cu i on, as a kettledrum or cymbals. notes of both chords in the ba , and percu ion instruments the root or keynote of the second 1. Instruments that produce a defichord doubled in the highest voice. nite note or notes, as kettledrums, These two forms of the perfect the xylophone, harmonica, bells, the cadence were called authentic, in the tuned anvil. early church, in distinction from the 2. Instruments that produce merely plagal cadence in which the chord of an individual or characteristic noise, the subdominant, that is, the fourth as the gong, triangle, tambourine, note of the scale, was followed by the castanets, cymbals, clappers, tenor tonic or keynote. A piece ought drum, ba drum. The second cla properly to close with a perfect or are known as the percu ion instrucomplete cadence; imperfect or half ments in an orchestra, cadences, the chord of the keynote percu ion stop followed by the chord of the dom i- In a reed organ, a stop knob connant or the fifth note in the scale, trolling a device which strikes a reed being used for a temporary close at sharply, and at the very instant it is the end of a phrase or movement. sounded, causing it to vibrate prompt perfect chord on A comb in at i ly and with unusual force. of three or more percu ive notes; it is also called the common Striking: in music applied to In chord, and consists of any tone with struments of percu ion, as drums, its third and fifth and usually its occymbals, bells. tave interval. 414 395 perfect close perpetual motion perfect close chant as a cue to the choir that they A chord of the dominant or the are to take up the close of the theme. fifth note in the scale, followed by perigourdine (pa-re-goor-den) Fr. n. that of the keynote of the scale. per i jour dine (pa-re-joor-den) Fr. n. perfect concords An old French country dance, very Are common chords in their origpopular in the province of Perigord, inal position, that is, chords composed whence its name. It was sprightly in of three notes, the fundamental, or character and was written in triple note on which the chord is built, its time, usually three-eight or six-eight. third, or a note the next but one above it, and its fifth, or note three A complete musical sentence, some whole and one half tone above it. period times covering eight or even sixteen perfect consonances measures, and involving a cadence at A pleasing and harmonious com the close, by which it is separated bin at i on of tones, as the tones of an from what follows. octave, period, imperfect perfect fifth A close that is not satisfying to the An interval consisting of three ear, more apt to be found at the close whole tones and one semitone, as C-G. of a movement than at the close of a