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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Grosse (Ger.) (gros-seh)

(I) Major, applies to intervals. (2) Great or grand, as, grosse Sonate. (3) An octave below standard pitch, as, grosse Nazard, an organ stop an octave below the twelfth.

Grosse-caisse, Gros tambour. See Drum.

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