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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Planxtiés

Laments; music of Irish harpers to celebrate the departed.

Plectrum Gr., plectron]. A small rod of metal, bone, ivory, etc., or a flat strip of wood or tortoise shell, or a ring with a projecting piece, used to strike the strings of the lyre, Japanese guitar, mandolin, zither, etc.

Pleyel, Ignaz J. Composer; Germany. B. 1757; d. 1831..

Pleyel, Marie F. D. M. (wife of above).

Pianist; France. B. 1811; d. 1875.

Pole, Will. Author, theorist; England. B. 1814; d. 1900.

PLEIN JEU Plein jeu (Fr.) (plane zhoo). Full power; full organ.

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