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The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either…

An alto singer.

Alto-rilievo.

High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alt…

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Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso-rili…

The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relativ…

The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigra…

Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.

The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.

The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A…

A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo.

A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F /) is a tone intermediate between F and G.

Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermom…

A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head vo…