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It. v. (in stroo - men-ta'- re) Composition of the instrumental To compose instrumental music. int a vol are (in-ta-vo-la'-rS) It. v. instrument azione parts, To set to music; to write notes: to o'-ne) It. n. (In-stroo-men-ta-tsi- Instrumentation, execution. copy music. 1. The art of composing, arrangintavolatura (Tn-ta-vo-la-too'-ra) It. n. ing or adapting music for instruments 1. The tablature; signs and char or voices. acters used in a music-book. 2. Tablatur notation. e; or a system of musical 2. The ability to perform music either vocal or instrumental. 3. Figured ba , or ba to which 287 268, intavolatura interrupted cadence the other parts are indicated by Arabic intermediate symphonies numerals written above and below Short, instrumental pa ages intro the ba notes. duced in long, vocal compositions to 4. Notation, the art of representing relieve the strain on the voice, and musical sounds by written characters. to heighten the effect. integer valor notarum (In'-te-jur va'- inter me diet to n. (In-ter-ma-dl-et'-to) It. lor no-ta'-rum) Lat. Untouched: integral value of the A short interlude: notes. Their absolute duration at an 1. A short piece to be performed average tempo, a question of high between the acts of a play. importance before the invention of 2. A short musical pa age between tempo marks and the metronome. verses of a hymn or canticle or be- According to Michael Prsetorius, tween portions of the church service, about 1620, about eighty tempora, intermedio (in-ter-ma'-di-6) It. n. that is, breves which were then the intermezzo (in-ter-med'-zo) It. n. units of measure, should fill seven An interlude; a short movement and a half minutes. connecting the larger movements of a intendant (aii-tan-dan') Fr. n. symphony or sonata, or introduced A director; a conductor. The man between the acts of an opera. Short ager or conductor of operas and con musical compositions originally very certs. Equivalent to impresario. simple and quite independent of each intendente (In-ten-den'-te) It. n. other, but later they were more elab- 1. Intelligence; skill: cleverne . orate and even were treated as sep a- 2. A chief; a director: a conductor. rate parts of the whole musical drama Same as impresario, but of le serious nature than the intenzionato (in-ten-tsi-o-na'-to) It. main work. In dance suites the interadj. and adv. mezzo usually occurred between the 1. (adj.) Intended, promised. sarabande and the gigue. 2. (adv.) With stre , emphasis. international pitch inter ligne (afi-ter-len') Fr. n. This is identical with French pitch Space: the space between two lines of A on the second space of the treble of the staff. clef, whereby it has four hundred interlude and thirty-five double vibrations per 1. A short musical composition, imsecond. This has been adopted by promptu or prepared, played between most countries. the acts of a play. In this sense, Lat. adj. equivalent to intermezzo. interrogativus (In-ter-rog-a-ti'-vus ) 2. Intermediate strains or pa ages Interrogative: one of the musical played between the verses of a can inflections which, in a measure, corticle or hymn. responds to punctuation marks in or- 3. An instrumental piece played bedinary writing, and which is used in tween parts of the church service. reciting the collects. The interrogatiinterludium vus is used for questions and con- Interlude. (ln-ter-lu'-di-um) Lat. n. sists in lowering the tone a second, 1. A piece of music detached, in that is, to the next tone below it, then troduced between the acts of an opera, raising it again to the note on which or a play. the greater part of the psalm is 2. A short movement in the symchanted, that is, the dominant or fifth phony taking the place of the scherzo. note of the scale, 3. A movement placed between two inter rot to (In-ter-rot'-to) It. adj. others. Interrupted, imperfect: said of a 4. Music performed between the cadence, accent or rhythm. verses of a hymn, also music per interrupted cadence formed between certain parts of a A cadence broken into; a cadence church service, which seems to be leading to the conintermede clusion of the harmony and is inter- Same as (afi-tar-mad') intermezzo, Fr. n. rupted by some chord or chords that intermediate seem to the ear to defer the conclu- A term applied to those sharps and sion. After the harmony of chords flats which do not belong in the origbuilt on the dominant or fifth note of inal key of a composition. The same the scale, the ending which fully sat as accidental, isfies the ear is a chord built on the 288 269 in to nato interrupted cadence tonic or first note. Where some other a major interval. Also an interval chord comes when this chord is exsmaller than a minor. The same as pected, or when some other chord augmented interval, comes in before it, leading the ear to interval, prepared expect something further before the See prepared interval, end, this is called an interrupted cainterval, redundant dence. See redundant intervals, interruzione (in-ter-root-si-6'-ne) It. ta'-te) vietati intervalli It. (in-ter-val'-le ve-an. Forbidden intervals: intervals con- Interruption; suspension: as used in the phrase, senza interruzione, play trary to the rules of harmony. on without interruption, intervals, parallel interval Intervals pa ing in two parallel The difference in pitch between two parts, either ascending or descending. intervening tones. It is usually reckoned from the lower upward. Equivalent to in- Coming between; intermediate; as tervale (Fr.); intervall (Ger.); inter the intervening subject of a fugue, vallo (It); intervallum (Lat). an idea similar to the principal or interval, augmented counter subject of a fugue, introduced An interval, a half tone greater for embellishment. than a major or perfect interval. intimi imo interval, consecutive and adv. (in-ti-mis'-si-mo) It. adj. An interval pa ing in the same di- 1. (adj.) Most heart-felt. rection in two parallel parts, as when 2. (adv.) With fervent expre ion. two parallel parts or voices of a intimo (In'-ti-mo) It. adj. score proceed in succe ion by simi- Inward, heart-felt, as used in the lar motion. phrase, con intimo sent i men to, with interval, diminished deep genuine feeling. An interval, a half tone le than a int on are (In-to-na'-re) It. v. minor interval or a perfect interval, To pitch the voice; to begin to interval, enharmonic sing; to fix the keynote; to tune; to An interval of le than a half tone. resound; to set to music; to compose. An interval which, according to the intonation fixed distribution of notes in the mod- 1. The art and act of producing ern musical system, is only nominal, sounds from the voice or instruments, as G sharp to A flat. On instruments but more specifically with the voice, like the piano whose tones are rigidly as regards quality and pitch, as pure tuned to a given pitch, G sharp and A intonation, true intonation. flat are the same note and played on 2. The capacity of the voice or in the same key, because G sharp is a strument for yielding sound. half tone higher than G, and A flat is 3. In Greg or i an chant the chanting a half tone lower than A, and G and tone. A are consecutive tones. Actually, 4. The opening phrase of the anti there is a slight difference between phon or scriptural phrases sung ret he two intervals as may be seen by sponsively, and other parts of Roman comparing the interval of A flat to Church services, when these are F, a major sixth, or interval of nine sung by the officiating priest or lead half steps with the interval of G sharp ing chorister, to F natural, a diminished seventh, intonation, false also an interval of nine half steps. A variation in pitch from what is The relative vibrations of A flat to considered the true tone, F are as one hundred and twenty intonation, fixed five to seventy-five, while the rela- A term describing such instruments tive vibrations of G sharp to F nat as the piano, the pitch of whose tones ural are as one hundred and twenty can not be altered at the will of the fight to seventy-five. This difference player as can the tones of the violin |s too small to be taken account of or guitar. intonation, just in practical music and is only taken account of in the theoretical consid- See just intonation, eration of the subject. adj. (In-to-na'-t5) It. part, and in to nato