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Mouthpiece :: Mouthpiece (n.) The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe..

Interpret :: Interpret (v. t.) To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape..

Quirk :: Quirk (n.) An irregular air; as, light quirks of music..

Manuscript :: Manuscript (a.) A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy..

Dirge :: Dirge (a.) A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn..

Mazurka :: Mazurka (n.) A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat..

Composer :: Composer (n.) One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music..

Follow :: Follow (v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument..

Development :: Development (n.) The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.

Carillon :: Carillon (n.) A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.

Modulation :: Modulation (n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations..

Treble :: Treble (n.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.

Alamire :: Alamire (n.) The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

Doloroso :: Doloroso (a. & adv.) Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.

Calliope :: Calliope (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers..

Maqui :: Maqui (n.) A Chilian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries..

Krumhorn :: Krumhorn (n.) A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.)..

Orchestration :: Orchestration (n.) The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

Fingering :: Fingering (n.) The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc..

Warbler :: Warbler (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltidae, or Sylvicolinae. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical..

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