Pronouncing Dictionary of Musical Terms

How to say it as well as what it means: every Italian, German and French musical term of 1896, respelled phonetically for the student.

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Bag-pipe

An instrument consisting of a leather bag into which air is forced either from a bellows or by the mouth of the player; furnished with from two to four pipes, one pipe with double reed pierced with holes upon which the melody is played, called in Scotland the chanter; the remaining pipes with single reeds, called drones, sound continuously the first and fifth of the scale or first fifth and octave.

Bajadere or Bayadere (by-a-dehr).

Indian dancing girl.

Bakkia (bak-kee - ah). dance.

East A Kamskatdale

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