A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical. to Which Is Prefixed, a Familiar Introduction to the First Principles of That Science - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817. Excerpt: ... Rythmical. An epithet applied to the property, or quality, in the ancient melopotia and modern melody, by which the cadences, accents, and quantities, are regulated and determined. C This letter is used as the abbreviation of Solo: as Org. S. Organ Solo. Sacbut. A bass wind instrument resembling the trumpet, so contrived as to be capable of being drawn out to different lengths, according to the acuteness and gravity of the scale required. The Sacbut is usually about eight feet long, and when extended to its full length, about fifteen. There are, however, Sacbuls of different sizes, to execute different parts; particularly a small one called by the Italians Trombonepiccialo, and the Germans Cleine alt possaune, proper for the counter-tenor. Respecting the Sacbut of the ancient Hebrews, so various have been the conjectures of commentators, that their opinions form no satisfactory information to the curious enquirer. Indeed, scarce any ancient instrument has been heard of, for which the Sacbut, or the Psaltery, have not furnished a name. Sacred-music. 'Oratorios, Church Services, Anthems, Chants, Hymns, Psalms, and whatever a musician composes for the purpose of public worship, or private devotion. See Secular Music., i Sacrist. A person retained in a cathedral, whose office it is to copy out the music for the use of the ehoir, and take care of the books. Salh. (Lat. Plu.) The name given by the Romans to the young men, twelve in number, whom Numa himself appointed out of the patricians, as a kind of dancers, and singers of hymns in praise of the God of war. The festivals in which the Salii were employed, and which constituted the sixth branch of that emperor's religious institutions, were ce,ebrated about the time of the Panathenaea at Athens, in the month o...

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