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Corrente (It.) (cor-ren'-teh) – Crescentini, Girolamo (creshen-tee'-nee)

Corrente (It.) (cor-ren'-teh)

Coranto. Cottillion (Fr., Cottillon, co-tee-yon'). A dance with numerous figures, originally rather lively, now much the same as the Quadrille.

Corri, Domenico (cor-ree)

Composer; Italy. B. 1746; d. 1825.

Costa, Sir Michael

Composer and conductor; Italy. B. 1810; d. 1884. COUNT

Couched Harp

The spinet.

Counter-subject

A theme employed in conjunction with the principal theme in a fugue. Coup d'archet (Fr.) (coo d'ar-shay). stroke of the bow. A

Couperin, Armand Louis

Organist. B. 1600; d. 1665.

Couperin, François (koo-peh-rang)

Called le Grand. Composer and improver of system of fingering; France. B. 1668; d. 1733.

Couplet (Eng.)

A pair of rhyming lines. Two notes played in the time of three of the same denomination.

Cowen, Frederick H

Composer; England.

B. 1852.

Cramer, John Baptist (crah-mer)

Pianist and composer: Germany. B. 1771; d. 1858.

Crescendo (It.) (cray-shen-do)

Abbreviation, cres., sign: in loudness [from It. crescere, to increase]. Crescendozug (Ger., hybrid of It. and Ger.). The swell box of the organ.

Crescentini, Girolamo (creshen-tee'-nee)

Sopranist and composer; Italy. B. 1766; d. Cristofori, Bartolomeo di F. (cris-to-fo-ree).

Inventor of the piano; Italy. B. 1651; d.

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