slancio (zlan'-cho) It. n

Literally, a throwing or casting: A long, flat piece of wood pierced impetuousity; vehemence; con slancio, with holes and placed just under the impetuously. lower ends of the pipes. When a group of pipes is to be used the draw slargando (zlar-gan'-do) It. n. stop is pulled out causing the slider to slargandosi (zlar-gan-do'-sl) It. n. move until the perforations coincide An enlarging, expanding, widening; hence, gradual broadening, slackening with the openings in the pipes, thus of the time. Abbr. slarg. admitting the wind from below and causing the pipes to sound when the slentando (zlen-tan'-do) It. n. corresponding key is depre ed. A relaxing or slackening of the time. Abbr. slent sliding-relish slide An obsolete embellishment. See also coule and slide, 1. A movable U-shaped tube which fits over the principal tube of certain sli ato Slurred.(zlis-sa'-to) It. adj. wind instruments and can be slid along as an outer casing in such a Slogan manner as to increase the length of A war cry, or word for a embling the tube and thus lower the pitch and a clan of the Scottish Highlanders, add to the compa of the instrument. slow movement This device tends to produce more 1. A term applied to any piece in perfect tones than do valves because slow time, whether an independent the length of the principal tube only composition or a part of a larger is increased and the air is not forced one. into a new tube. However, it is more 2. A specific name for such a move difficult to manipulate, for the perment when it constitutes part of a former must rely upon his ear in des on at a, symphony or other large term in ing the exact amount to work in cla ical form, having sevlengthen the principal tube in order eral well defined and contrasting to produce correctly the tone desired. movements. In a sonata of only two 2. In reference to the organ it movements, the slow movement may means slider. be placed either first or second; in 3. A musical embellishment con works of more than two movements sisting of three or more notes in it is never placed either first or last. the natural order of the scale, either The character of the movement, ascending or descending. The last rather than the indicated time, deter notes are the principal ones and the mines its claim to be called the slow others are considered graces. movement, 4. A portamento, slur