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In music G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale.
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In music, G sharp is a tone intermediate between G and A.
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Gagaku is the ancient court music of Japan and has its origins as far back as the 8th century. It is derived mainly from China and Korea. Gagaku orchestras may consist of as many as 17 musicians playing woodwinds, plucked- string, and percussion instruments. The winds include a flute, usually of the type known as ry Uteki; a short double-reed pipe called hichiriki; and a sho, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 17 bamboo pipes inserted in a globular wind chest with a mouth hole. The flute and the double-reed pipe play the melody while the mouth organ provides a cluster of background tones. Phrases of music are marked off by the sounds of a small horizontal two- headed drum (kakko), a large hanging drum (taiko), and a small gong (shoko), as well as by short melodies and arpeggios played on a four- stringed lute (biwa) and a thirteen-stringed zither (koto).
Gagaku music utilises six modes, or scales, of Chinese origin, all derived from two basic pentatonic scales: ryo, D E F-sharp A B (D), plus G and C- sharp as auxiliary notes; and ritsu, G A C D E (G), plus auxiliary B and F. The meters in gagaku music are basically duple.
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The gaillarde is a lively Italian dance, in triple time; also called, from its alleged origin, Romanesque.
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The galliard was a spirited dance in triple time for two persons, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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The galop or gallopade was a 19th-century couple dance in quick duple time.
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A gamba stop is an organ stop with a tone resembling that of stringed instruments.
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A gamelan is a type of percussion orchestra common in the East Indies.
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The gavotte or gavot was a stately and ceremonious dance, like the minuet, which developed into a stage dance too elaborate for performance in the ball- room. The Gavotte originated as an air for a dance with two strains, each of four or eight bars, in 2/4 or 4/4 time, the starting notes occupying half a bar. Like the minuet, it was introduced for free treatment into suites, sonatas, etc. The name is said to be derived from the Gavots, the inhabitants of the Gap, in France.
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A gedact or gedeckt is a flute-like stopped metal diapason organ pipe.
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In music, a gems-horn is an organ stop with conical tin pipes.
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The Genggong is an early form of Balinese music based upon the jew's harp.
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In music, a German sixth is an augmented sixth chord having a major third and a perfect fifth between the root and the augmented sixth.
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A gittarone is an acoustic bass guitar.
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The gittern was a medieval stringed instrument resembling the guitar, now obsolete.
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In music, the term giusto means in just, correct, or suitable time.
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A glass harmonica was a musical instrument of the 18th century consisting of a set of glass bowls of graduated pitches, played by rubbing the fingers over the moistened rims or by a keyboard mechanism.
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In music a glee is an unaccompanied part of a song for three or more solo voices. Despite its name, it is not necessarily gleesome and the subject may vary greatly, from grave to gay, etc.
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In music a glissando is a gliding effect.
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The glockenspiel is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal plates played with a pair of small hammers.
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God Save The King (God Save The Queen) is common appellation of the English national anthem. Concerning the author and the composer opinions differ. It has been attributed to Dr John Bull, chamber musician to James I; his ode, dating from the gunpowder plot, beginning 'God save great James our King.' But the composition we now possess would seem to have been, both words and melody, the work of Henry Carey. It appears to have been first published, together with the air, in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1745, when the landing of the young Stuart called forth expressions of loyalty from the adherents of the reigning family. After Dr. Arne, the composer of another national song (Rule Britannia), had brought it on the stage, it soon became very popular. Since that time the harmony of the song has undoubtedly been improved, but the rhythm is the same as originally.
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The gong is a Chinese musical instrument made of an alloy of copper (about seventy-eight parts) and tin (about twenty-two parts), in form like a round flat dish traditionally with a rim about six centimeters in depth. It is struck by a kind of drumstick, the head of which is covered with leather, and is used for the purposes of making loud sonorous signals, of marking time, and of adding to the clangour of martial instruments.
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The gousli is a traditional Russian zither/harp with sixteen metal strings.
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In music grabbles are ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
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In music a gradation is a diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
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A grand piano is a large piano, usually harp-shaped, in which the wires or strings are generally triplicated, increasing the power, and all the mechanism is introduced in the most effective manner, regardless of the size of the instrument.
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In music, grazioso is a directive to play gracefully, smoothly and elegantly.
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The great organ is the largest and loudest of the three parts of a grand organ (the others being the choir organ and the swell, and sometimes the pedal organ or foot keys), It is played upon by a separate keyboard, which has the middle position.
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In music the great scale is the complete scale. It is employed to designate the entire series of musical sounds from the lowest to the highest.
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In music, a Gregorian chant is a plain song, or canto fermo, a kind of unisonous music, according to the eight celebrated church modes, as arranged and prescribed by Pope Gregory I in the 6th century.
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Gregorian modes are the musical scales ordained by Pope Gregory I, and named after the ancient Greek scales, as Dorian, Lydian, etc.
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In music, the Gregorian tones are a tonal system introduced by Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great). In the early ages of church music the Greek system of tetrachords, or what was supposed to be the Greek system, was followed. There were in the time of Ambrose of Milan fifteen so-called Greek modes or scales in use. In order to simplify church music he selected four of these scales, the Dorian, Phrygian, AEolian, and Mixo-Lydian, to which he attempted to reduce all the chants and melodies sung in church. This selection of scales was soon found to be too limited. The church singers refused to be bound to it, and it failed to represent the melodies actually in use. In these circumstances Gregory I introduced a new reform and extension of church music. To each of the scales admitted by Ambrose he added a new scale or mode, commencing with the fourth below the key-note of the original scale. These new scales he called plagal, while to the four introduced by Ambrose he gave the name of authentic. He introduced the practice of naming the tones by the letters of the alphabet. The scale of C, with the semitones between the 3d and 4th, and the 7th and 8th, which in the modern system is called the natural scale, and is the pattern on which all the others are formed, was one of the plagal scales introduced as an innovation by Gregory I.
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In music, a ground is a composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
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A guitar is a stringed musical instrument with a hollow body, and a neck somewhat similar to that of a violin, used especially to accompany the voice. The modern or Spanish guitar has six strings, the three highest of gut, the three lowest of silk covered with fine wire, tuned respectively to the E in the second space of the bass staff, A its fourth, and the treble D, C, B, and E. The intermediate intervals are produced by bringing the strings, by the pressure of the fingers of the left hand, into contact with the frets fixed on the key-board, while those of the right pluck or twitch the strings. The guitar was introduced into Europe from Spain where it was first extremely popular. The Spaniards derived it from the Moors, who brought it from the East.
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In music, gustoso is a directive to play in a tasteful, agreeable manner.
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Gutbucket is a highly emotional style of jazz playing.
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