MUSICAL TERMS #5 - Di - En

 1.                Dissonance - A  combination of 2 or more notes that require a resolution.

2.             Dolce - Italian term for 'sweetly', 'gently'

3.                Doloroso - Italian term for 'painfully' or play with grief

 4.                Downbeat - The first beat of a measure.

 5.             Duet - A composition for 2 performers (instrumental or vocal)

 6.             Dumb piano - A small keyboard instrument resembling a piano, but without hammer and strings; used to finger practice silently

 7.             Dummy pipes - Pipes that do speak, but are displayed in the front of an organ.

 8.             Dutch Concert - The singing of an entire company in which each person sings whatever he/she pleases (whatever comes into their heads) then the whole company comes in with the refrain."Hi, ho, you'll never catch me.  You'll never catch me on the open sea!"

 9.                Dynamics - The contrasting degrees of intensity (louder/softer) in music.

 10.           Eccitato - Italian - excited

 11.           Eilig - German - Hurriedly

 12.           Elegy - A vocal or instrumental composition  of a melancholy nature.

 13.           Encore - French term for 'again'. Meaning; sing another piece or the same one again!

 14.                Enharmonic - The same note spelled two different ways: e flat, d sharp

 15.           Entr'acte - The piece of music performed between the acts of a play. (beginning the 2nd act)

Schirmer Pocket Manual of Musical Terms, Edited by Theodore Baker, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1978