met’ronome

E., Metronom (ma-tré- ndm’), G., métronome (m4-tré-niim), F., metronomo (m4-trd-nd’-md), I. A pendulum worked by clock-work, and weighted below; provided with a movable slide, and so graduated that its rate of vibration per minute can be fixed by the slider; with the slider at 60 it beats 60 times a minute, etc. It moves with an audible click; the bell-metronome has also a bell which rings every third or fourth, etc., beat. Perfected by Winkel it was put on the market by Maelzel (vide B. D.), and is called Maelzel’s metronome (abbr. M. M.). It is. useful as a composer’s indication of the standard time of a composition; hence the metronome-mark, thus M. M.,/-90, means a rate for quarter notes equal to 90 per minute, as indicated by the slider set at go. It is used also to beat time for students. It is made also in watch-form as a pocket m. met’rum, L. Metre. Mette (mét’-té), G. Matins.