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tion or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.

ially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object. "The praxis and theory of music." Wood.

lay an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance; to serve as prelude. The musicians preluded on their instruments. Sir. W. Scott. We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point. Jeffrey.

to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. Cowper.

Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down. [Obs.] He fights as you sing pricksong. Shak.

nation as the fundamental base of the harmony; -- opposed to derivative. Moore (Encyc. of Music). -- Primitive circle (Spherical Projection), the circle cut from the sphere to be projected, by the primitive plane. -- Primitive colors (Paint.), primary colors. See under Color. -- Primitive Fathers (Eccl.), the acknow…

nowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.

of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.

d, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch. Programme music (Mus.), descriptive instrumental music which requires an argument or programme to explain the meaning of its several movements.

roportion, Inverse proportion, etc. See under Continued, Inverse, etc. -- Harmonical, or Musical, proportion, a relation of three or four quantities, such that the first is to the last as the difference between the first two is to the difference between the last two; thus, 2, 3, 6, are in harmonical proportion; for 2…

A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.

A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known. Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Ps. xxxiii. 2.

To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.

ing struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.

Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.

A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths.

The appropriate music for a quadrille.

The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.

The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts.

tter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument