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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Chorus

(I) A company of singers. (2) The refrain of a song. (3) A composition for a company of singers. (4) The mixturestops in an organ. Chromatic, Chromatisch (Ger.), Chromatique (Fr.), Cromatico (It.). (I) Sounds foreign to the key. (2) A scale, consisting of half-tones. Chromatic chord, one including foreign sounds. Foreign to the key; chromatic interval, one not found in the major scale; chromatic half-tone, changing the pitch without changing the letter, as C, C#.

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