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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Musette (Fr.)

(I) A bagpipe. (2) An old dance. (3) In the suite the second part or "trio" of the gavotte, etc., is frequently so called, and is written in imitation of bagpipe music. (4) A soft reed-stop in the organ.

Music, Musica (Lat. and It.), Musique (Fr.), Musik (Ger.) [from Gr., mousike, from mousa, muse]. Originally any art over which the Muses presided, afterward restricted to the art that uses sound as its material.

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