sinistra

With manu the left(si-nis'-tra hand. ma'-nu) Lat. perilous home he stuffed the ears of sink a pace his companions with wax and lashed himself to a mast until he had sailed An English name for the cinque out of the hearing of their fatal songs. pas, five-step, an old French dance Others said it was the Argonauts who whose characteristic feature was a movement of five steps. It is the got safely by, owing to the superior same as the original form of the gal enchantment of Orpheus' singing, liard and is frequently mentioned by whereupon the Sirens threw them- Shakespeare and other Elizabeth i an selves into the sea and were trans writers. Other forms of the name are formed into rocks. cinque-pace, cinqua-pace, cinque-pa , Sirenen-gesang Ger. n. ( zir-en'-en-ge-zang' ) cinque-pas, sinqua-pace, sinque-pace, zinck-pa and sincopas. A siren song; a melody of seducsino (se'-no) It. prep. tive, fascinating character. As far as; to: used chiefly after sirventes (ser-vant') Fr. n. D. C, return to the beginning, and Poems or songs of the French, similar expre ions, and usually with sistema (ses-ta'-ma) It. n. al, as sin' al. Abbr. sin'. System. sino Sister (zes'-ter) Ger. n. As alfarsegno as to (se'-no al san'-yo) the sign; It. to the sign, An ancient German guitar which siren Eng. n. po e ed seven strings instead of six, sirene (se-ren') Fr. n. as do modern guitars. See also guitar, Sirene (ze-ra'-ne) Ger. n. sistrum (sis'-trum) Lat. n. 1. An instrument which may be An instrument of ancient Egypt and used in determining the number of of the Orient. It consisted of a metal vibrations nece ary to produce a hoop provided with a handle. Upon given tone. It consists of a disc the hoop were hung rings of metal, which is made to revolve over a jet which rattled when the sistrum was of compre ed air or steam. The disc shaken. The Egyptians used it in the is provided with equi-distant per for a worship of Isis. tions, which, as they pa over the jet, sitar (sit'-ar) Hin. n. produce a regular series of puffs form- An instrument belonging to the ing a musical tone. An increased same family as the guitar and having number of rotations of the disc create a flat, circular body and a long, an increase in the number of puffs per straight neck. The strings are plucked second and consequently a tone of with a plectrum. higher pitch. Each perforation represitole sents a vibration and a record is kept A dulcimer like instrument. See of the revolutions per minute, the also citole. number of vibrations being thus de- Sitz (zits) Ger. n. termined. Position; place. 2. When spelled with a capital the six-eighth measure name of a group of mythological Measure consisting of six eighth 6 creatures who sat on the shores of a certain island or promontory near the six-four or time notes their equivalent; marked 8 southwest coast of Italy, and sang bewitchingly sweet songs that lured A kind of time in which a measure requires six quarter notes 6 the pa ing sailor to draw near, only or an equivalent; written 4 ^ to meet with death. In works of art they are represented as having head, six pour quatre for (ses poor katr') Fr., arms and generally the bust of a Literally, six four: a sextuplet young woman, and the body, wings or or a double triplet; a group of six feet of a bird. Homer speaks of them notes to be played in the time of four. 500 481 skald six-quarter measure six-quarter measure sixth, diminished Measure consisting of six quarter 6 An interval two semitones shorter notes or their equivalent; marked 4 than the major sixth. six-sixteen time sixth, French An augmented chord, formed from That kind of time in which a me as the note on which the chord is based ure requires six sixteenth notes 6 and the sharp of its sixth interval, or their equivalent; marked 16 and including between them the six-two time major third above the note on which That kind of time in which a me as the chord is based and the major ure requires six half notes 6 third below the upper note, the sharp. or their equivalent; marked 2 sixth, German sixieme (sez-yem) Fr. n. An augmented chord, formed from Sixth; the interval of a sixth, nine the note on which the chord is based half steps, and the sharp of its sixth interval and sixte (sekst) Fr. n. including between them major third The interval of a sixth, nine half and perfect fifth intervals; as, in the steps. key C major, F, A, C and D sharp. sixte ajoutee (sekst a-zhoo-ta') Fr. sixth, great The added sixth; i. e., the subdom- See great sixth, inant triad or chord of three tones, sixth, Italian in the first position with the sixth An augmented chord, formed from note added, which in C major, would the note on which the chord is based be f-a-c-d. See also added sixth, and the sharp of its sixth interval sixteenth note. )orP and including between them the ma- A note, whose value is one-sixjor third of the note on which the teenth of the time value of chord is based. It is the simplest a whole note; also called a one of the augmented chords, and elesemiquaver because equal sharp. gant in its simplicity. As, F, A, D to note.one-half of a quaver, or eighth sixth, major sixteenth rest In the major scale of any key this A rest equivalent in time g is the tone which is on the sixth devalue to a sixteenth note. ' gree above or below the given tone. sixth C-A. is the typical sixth interval: as This 1. A tone on the sixth line or space above or below the given note. sixth, minor 2. Also the interval between a tone A sixth which is a half tone shorter and the tone on the sixth degree than the major sixth is called the