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Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person.

or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments. Pulmonary resonance (Med.), the sound heard on percussing over the lungs. -- Vocal resonance (Med.), the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patient is speaking.…

end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds.

Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent. Moore (Encyc. )

The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.

An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.

A remaking or recasting; an adaptation, esp. of a literary work or musical composition.

A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end. Moore (Encyc. of Music. ).

To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.

shore, or coast. [Archaic] Spenser. From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical. Tennyson.

f the other strains. "The Rondo-form was the earliest and most frequent definite mold for musical construction." Grove.

A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.

Fig.: Harsh; unmusical. [R.] His verse is scabrous and hobbling. Dryden.

A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.

occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song. Beyond the fact that Selach is a musical term, we know absolutely nothing about it. Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)

the bronchial tubes of most birds. The semerings form an essential part of the syrinx, or musical organ, of singing birds.

A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also septuor.

Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.

Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.

ve preference of one sex for certain characteristics in the other, such as bright colors, musical notes, etc.; also, the selection which results from certain individuals of one sex having more opportunities of pairing with the other sex, on account of greater activity, strength, courage, etc.; applied likewise to that…