fioretura

A florid(fe-6-ri-too'-ra) melodic It. n. ornament; an fistula pas to rica (fis'-tu-la pas-tor'-ika) Lat. embellishment, A pipe made from an oak stalk fiorito (fe-6-re'-to) It. adj. and used by the audience in Roman Flowery; florid, theaters to expre disapproval. firing fistula tor (fis-tu-la'-tor) Lat. n. Pulling all the bells in a tower so fistula tore (fis-too-la-to'-re) It. n. that they will strike together. This One who plays on the pipe, is an English practice, upon particufistuliren (fis-too-le-ren) Ger. v. larly joyful or mournful occasions. 1. To sing falsetto. When upon the latter the bells are 2. To allow too strong a pre ure muffled, of wind to enter an organ pipe, causfirst ing it to produce a tone higher in 1. A term applied to the highest pitch than the one ordinarily pro voice or instrument of a cla . duced. In technical language, to acc i- 2. The lowest line or space of the dentally overblow an organ pipe in staff. such a way as to produce some har- 3. The highest string of an instrument. mental. monic tone instead of the fund a- 4. Applied to intervals, the prime fithele Old Eng. or unison. Term for fiddle. first inversion five-eight time When the lowest note of a chord That kind of time in which a measis raised an octave leaving the second ure requires five-eighth notes or the note as the lowest, the first inversion equivalent; indicated by 5 at the head has occurred, 8 first position of the staff after the key signature, That position of the left hand on five-four time the fingerboard of a violin or similar That kind of time in which five instrument in which the hand is near quarter notes, or the equivalent^ are est the nut, that is, the small bridge required to complete a measure; indiat the upper end of the fingerboard cated by 5 at the head of the staff over which the strings pa to the 4 screws, and the forefinger pre es the after fixed do key signature, the first tone or semitone of the open string. first voice That system of using certain syllables to name or represent the tones The soprano. of the scale, called solmization, in Fis (fes) Ger. n. which do is always given to C, The note F sharp. whether sharp, flat, or natural, re to Fis dur (fes door) Ger. D, and so on. The key of F sharp major. fixed intonation Fis moll (fes mol) Ger. A term applied to instruments such The key of F sharp minor. as the piano and organ whose pitch Fisfis (fes-fes) Ger. cannot be changed at the will of the The note F double sharp. player. Also called fixed tone, n. Fist els tim me (fes-tel-shtim'-me) Ger. fixed syllables Syllables always applied to the A shriek; a disagreeable voice. same notes as do to C, re to D. 225 206 fixed tone flauto ad libitum fixed tone flat of the medieval scale. It lowers, Same as fixed intonation. a semi-tone, the pitch of the note before which it is placed. Flachflote (flakh'-fla-te) Ger. n. 2. When tones fail to reach the true 1. Flageolet. 2. An organ-stop of rather thin tone. pitch, they are said to be flat, flageolet flat, double A sign, composed of two flats (bb), (flazh-6 -la') Fr. n, which lowers a note two semitones. 1. A twind flageole instrument made of a flat eighth, extreme tube of wood or ivory. It resembles The octave diminished by one semi the flute but is blown at the end tone at either extreme, instead of at the side; has from one flat fifth to seven finger holes, and a mouth- A diminished fifth: an interval con piece like a toy whistle. Its tone is clear and shrill, similar to but softer sisting of five degrees and containing two tones and two semitones. than that of the piccolo; it po e es flat fourth, extreme a compa of two octaves and three A perfect fourth diminished by one semitones and is made in several semitone at either extreme, different keys. It is rarely heard in flat seventh the modern orchestra but flageolet solo parts are found in many old A minor seventh consisting of four orchestral scores. tones and two semitones. flat tuning 2. A small flute stop in the organ of very high pitch. Abbr. flag, A method of tuning the lute, called flageolet tones also French tuning or French flat The harmonics or overtones of tuning, because of the lowne of the earlier French pitch, stringed instruments; tones produced on violin and like instruments by flatter la corde (flat-ta la kord') Fr. Literally to flatter or care the lightly pre ing the bow near the string; that is, to play expre ively bridge and merely touching the upon any bowed instrument. strings with the fingers. See also harmonics. flautando (fla-oo-tan'-do) It. adj. flauta to (fla-oo-ta'-to) It. adj. Flageolett (fla-je-o-let') Ger. n. 1. A flute-like tone. Flageolet. See also flageolet, 2. A direction in music to produce flam the flute-like tones on a violin. A grace note in drum music. There are two kinds, the close flam being flautiIt.unison i (fla'-oo-te oo-ne-so'-ne) made as rapidly as po ible and the The flutes in unison. open flam with a brief interval. flautino (fla-oo-te'-no) It. n