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Referring to canonical hours, at Hummel (hoom'-mel) Ger. n. Literally, bumble-bee. which daily services were held in the 1. A pipe in the bagpipe which Roman Catholic, Greek and early An makes a continuous buzzing sound glican churches. They are as follows: Lauds, sunrise; prime, first like 2. Aa bee. "* small bagpipe. hour (six a. m.); tierce or terce, Hummel chen (hum'-mel-khen) Ger. n. third (nine a. m.); sext, sixth Literally, little bumble-bee. For (noon); nones, ninth (three p. m.); applied meaning see Hummel, vespers, evening; compline, final. hummen Services during the night are called To hum.(hoom'-men) Ger. v. nocturns; the word matins includes humoreske (hoo-mor-esk'-e) Ger. n. both nocturns and lauds. See also humoresque (ii-mor-esk) Fr. n. canonical hours. A humorous or whimsical piece; house organ a fanciful composition, A small reed organ suitable for a hunting-horn house. Also called parlor organ, A horn varying in style from a hreel (wra'-61) A. S. simple animal's horn, to an elaborate The Anglo-Saxon name for the reel. trumpet of metal or wood. Upon it 276 257 hunting-horn hymn us can be produced various calls, signals hydraulic on (hi-draw'-li-kon) and tunes, according to its structure. Same as hydraulic organ, Hunters were often recognized by hydraulon (hi-draw'-16n) Grk. n. the sounds of their hunting-horns, An organ whose motive power is hunting song furnished by a pre ure of water. A song written in praise of the See hydraulic organ. chase. The melody generally intro hydra ulus (hl-draw'-loos) Lat. n. duces such effects as the prolonged An organ whose motive power is and varied sound of a bugle-horn, furnished by a pre ure of water. hunt's-up See hydraulic organ. A boisterous song, formerly played hymeneal on the horn, under the windows of 1. A marriage song. sportsmen, to awaken them in the 2. Pertaining to marriage, morning. hymenean hurdy-gurdy 1. Pertaining to marriage. An obsolete instrument, most popu- 2. A marriage song, lar during the Eleventh and Twelfth hymn Centuries. Its musical value was not A religious song or ode intended to great and it gradually pa ed out of be sung in church. A song of praise use, finally being used almost entirely or adoration to the Deity, by street musicians, from which fact hymn of battle the name has been erroneously A song of supplication constantly applied to the street piano of the presused by the ancients previous to an ent day. The hurdy-gurdy was a engagement with the enemy. pear-shaped instrument having from hymn, vesper four to six wire strings and with a Any hymn sung in the vesper servrosined wooden wheel just above the ice of the Catholic Church, tail-piece. The player turned this hymnal wheel by means of a crank located in A book of hymns for use in public worship. the tail-piece. Over the face of the instrument was set an oblong box hymne (emn) Fr. n. fitted with keys, which were depre ed Hymne (hem'-ne) Ger. n. by the fingers of the left hand, the in- A hymn; sacred song or anthem, strument being held in such a position hymne de louange (emn du loo-anzh) that the keys fell back into their Fr. proper places. A wedge-shaped piece Literally, hymn of praise; doxology. of bra , in the rear of the key lever, hymniLat. Saliares (him-nl sal-i-a'-res) pre ed the strings against the rosined wheel. Two of the strings tuned Songs of the ancient Romans, in unison were acted upon by the keys, which the Salii, the twelve priests of and were used in producing the mel- Mars, sung on the feast days of that ody. The others were drones and god, of other gods and of dist in gave but one tone each throughout a guished men. The priests carrying composition. In the beginning the the Ancilia through the streets of hurdy-gurdy was made so large that the city, sang and danced in war-like two performers were nece ary, one dances. hymnody to turn the wheel and another to touch hurry the keys, 1. A volume of hymns. 2. The body of hymns belonging In dramatic music this means a roll to a particular period, country, sect of drums, or a tremolo of stringed or author. instruments, to indicate an exciting hymns, theurgic situation on the stage, The first hymns of Greece; songs faurtig (hoor'-tikh) Ger. adj. of incantation, such as those ascribed Quick; prompt; nimble. to Orpheus. Songs performed in Hurtigkeit (hoor'-tikh-kit) Ger. n. Greek mysteries upon the most sol- Quickne ; promptne , emn occasions, when the priests in hydraulic organ voked the deities for knowledge of Hydraulic is derived from a Greek secrets which surpa ed human word meaning water: hence an old reason. style of organ in which water was hymn us (Mm'-nfis) Lat n. used to regulate the pre ure of air. A hymn. 277 258 hymn us, Ambrosian us Hyperlydian hymn us, Ambrosian us (him'-nus am hypercatalexis Eng. n. from(hl'-pur-kat-a-lek'-sis) Grk. bro-zhi-a'-nus) Lat. The Ambrosian chant. A mode of Exce of syllables beyond the resinging or chanting introduced by St. quired number in a line of poetry. Ambrose in the Cathedral Church at Milan about 384. See also Ambrosian hyper diapason Grk. n. (hi'-pur-di-a-pa'-zon) chant. The octave above or upper octave. hypate (hip'-a-te) Grk. n. hyper diazeuxis (hf-pur-di-a-ziik-sis) Literally, extreme. Grk. n. 1. The longest string on the lyre In early music the separation of two and hence, that giving the lowest tetrachords or scale divisions of four sound. notes each by the interval of a fifth. 2. Also applied to the lowest tetra- See also tetrachord. chord or group of four tones, in the hyper dit onos (hl'-pur-dit'-o-nos) Grk. ancient Greek scale. n. The interval of a third above; in hypate bareria gravis (hip'-a-te baearly music the interval of a major re'-n-a) Grk. (gra-vis) Lat. A tone in ancient music produced third or two whole tones when measby eight-ninths of a whole string and ured downward. corresponding to our B natural on Hyperdorian (hi'-pur-do'-ri-an) Eng. the second line of the ba . adj. from Grk. A name applied to two forms of the hypateGrk. hypaton n. (hip'-a-te hip'-a-ton) ancient Greek mode or scale. Its In the ancient Greek scale the low earlier form was sometimes called est note in the hypaton or lowest tet- Mixolydian and runs as follows: rachord, which is a group of four + I. A V.. * \. tones, and thus used from its meanb — a — g — fv_e — d — c^B ing, extreme low. — indicates a whole step; ^ ind i hypate meson (hip'-a-te me'-son) Grk. cates athe nects halftones step; i forming a*- tetrachord \ con- In the Greek scale, the middle tetrachord, or group of four tones, was or group of four tones; + marks the called the meson, and its lowest note diazeuxis or tone separating tetra hypate meson. chords. Later Hyperdorian was aphypatoides plied to a Greek scale beginning on The ba (hip'-a-to'-i-des) notes in the ancientGrk.Greek n. G, embracing two octaves, and formed scale, from five tetrachords. See also Greek modes and music.