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Chair Organ – Chest Tone

Chair Organ

Choir organ. Chalameau (shah-lah-mo) or Chalumeau (Fr.). See Calamus.

Chamber Music

Vocal or instrumental music suitable for performance in small rooms. Generally applied now to sonatas, trios, quartets, etc., for instruments.

Chaminade, Mlle

C. (shah-mee-nad). Pianist, composer; France. B. 1860..

Changes

The various melodies produced by the various ways in which a chime is rung.

Chanson (Fr.) (shan-song)

A song, a part song; formerly a part song resembling a madrigal.

Chantant (Fr.) (shong-tawnt)

Singing. Café chantant, a café where singing is part of the entertainment.

Chanter

(I) A singing priest. (2) The melody pipe of the bagpipe.

Chanterelle (Fr.) (shong-ta-rell)

The highest string of the violin, viola, and violoncello; also of the guitar and lute.

Chanteuse (Fr.) (shong-toose)

A singer (female). Chant pastoral (Fr.). Shepherd's song.

Chappell, Wm

Historian; England. B. 1809; d. 1888.

Cherubini, Maria Luigi C

S. (keh-roo-beenee). Composer and theorist; Italy. B. 1760; d. 1842.

Chest Tone

CHEST TONE The lowest register of the voice-male or female.