ber's Note: Corrected error "possible" for Italian
"possibile".]

_Quasi_--in the manner of. _Allegro quasi andante_--a fairly rapid
movement, yet in the style of an andante; almost as slow as an andante.

_Sans_--without. _Sans pedales_--without pedals.

_Sempre_--always, or continually. _Sempre forte_--a long passage to be
played forte throughout its entirety.

_Senza_--without. _Senza accompagnamento_--without accompaniment.

_Sino, sin_--as far as. See p. 14, note.

_Solo_--alone. Opposite of ensemble.

_Sub_--under or lower. _Sub-dominant_--the under dominant.

_Tanto_--same as _troppo_, q.v.

_Tre_--three. _Tre corde_--three strings.

_Tres_--very. _Tres vivement_--very lively.

_Troppo_--too much. _Non tanto allegro_, or _non troppo allegro_--not
too fast.

_Una, un, uno_--one, or a. _Una corda_--one string. _Un peu_--a little.

A working knowledge of these auxiliary terms will aid the student
greatly in arriving at the meaning of hundreds of terms without stopping
to look up each individual one.

CHAPTER X

MEASURE

97. From the standpoint of the eye, a _measure_ is that portion of the
staff found between two bars, (in certain cases this space may be less
than a measure, as _e.g._, at the beginning and end of a movement); but
from the standpoint of the ear a single, isolated measure is not
possible, and the term must therefore be defined in the plural form.

_Measures_ are similarly accented groups of evenly-spaced beats, each
group having at least one accented and one non-accented beat. The
strongest accent falls normally on the first beat in the measure.

Two essential characteristics are involved in the ordinary musical
measure:

(1) A group of even beats (or pulses), always felt, though not always
actually sounded, one or more of these beats being stronger than the
rest;

(2) Certain rhythmic figures ([Illustration], etc.) which form the
actual musical content of these groups.

The student will note the essential difference between rhythm
and measure. Rhythm is the regular recurrence of accent in a
series of beats (or pulses), while measure is the grouping of
these beats according to some specified system. In listening
to a piece of music, two hearers A and B may feel the _rhythm_
equally strongly, but A may subjectively group the beats
into--_one_, two | _one_, two |--etc., while B feels the
groups as--_one_, two, _three_, four | _o