| Q | (Italian f., French m.) the letter Q |
| Q. | abbreviation of 'quantity', 'quarterly', 'quarter-page' (advertising), 'Quarto' (Shakespeare manuscript), 'question' |
| q | (Italian f., French m.) the letter q |
| q. | abbreviation of quintus, 'quarto', quasi (Latin: almost), 'quarter', 'quarterly', 'query', 'question', 'quire' |
| Qainat | see qayna |
| Qamo | the qamo religious dance in Tibet came into being during conflict between Buddhism and the local Bon-po religion (the Black Sect). In the process of localizing Buddhism, Padmasambhava from Kashmir created a kind of religious dance to subdue the 'evil spirits' in monasteries by giving the local Tibetan dances Buddhist interpretations. This religious dance gradually became popular as qamo, a sorcerer's dance |
| Q&A | abbreviation of 'question and answer' |
| Qanoun | see kanun |
| Qanún | see kanun |
| Qaraami | a mid twentieth-century musical genre from Somalia that originally involved 'call and response' between the singers, the oud player and the percussionist, but now had taken on a slicker, more accessible pop style |
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| Qaraqeb | see karkabas |
| Qaraqsh | see karkabas |
| Qaraqueb | see karkabas |
| Qarkeb | see karkabas |
| Qarqabou | see karkabas |
| Qasab | Lebanese double-pipe |
| Qasa'ed | see qasidah |
| Qasa'id | see qasidah |
| Qasbah | (Arabic, 'piece of reed') Moroccan bamboo flute |
| in the Arab world, ney |
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| Qasidah (s.), Qasa'ed (pl.) | (Arabic, literally 'ode') or qasa'id (pl.), popular music form derived from Arabic poetry, found throughout the Arabic sphere of influence from Egypt to the Indonesian archipelago, lyrics originally in classical Arabic but embracing local languages with the expansion of Islam |
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| Qassaba | see qasbah |
| Qassida | see qasidah |
| Qatar | (English, French m.) an oil-rich Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar, that achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971 |
| Qatarien (m.), Qatarienne (f.) | (French) a native of Qatar |
| qatarien (m.), qatarienne (f.) | (French) of or pertaining to Qatar |
| Qaval | Azerbaijani tambourine |
| Qawwali | (Arabic, literally 'the one who says') a Sufi devotional musical genre, renowned for its lively delivery, popularly associated with Northern India and Pakistan but found all over Southern Asia wherever Muslim communities exist. A qawwali ensemble usually includes a male lead singer with a chorus of several men, a tabla and/or a dholak, a harmonium and the clapping of hands |
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| Qayna (s.), Qiyân (pl.) | (Arabic) or qainat, female slave-singers from pre-Islamic (jâhiliyah) Arab culture. These singing, wine-pouring courtesans had long been a fixture in the Mediterranean world. They were common in the households of the wealthy, but more of them worked for hire, entertaining passing customers all across the Arabian peninsula, and especially in the slave-market cities, most prominently Medina. Though usually not Arab girls, their art form was an Arabic cultural expression; most of the great singers of Islam were Persians or Africans who were born in the Arabian peninsula, or at least raised there |
| a ninth-century treatise by 'Amr Ibn Bahr Gâhiz (al-Jâhiz, or al-Djâhiz) written in Baghdad, the Epistle on Singing-Girls, satirizes the opportunities for profit through their exploitation. The one singing-girl specifically mentioned by Gâhiz is Abyssinian - that is, black. After noting that the prices for singing-girl slaves far exceeded those they would otherwise fetch were they not singers, he writes, "Who could reach anything like the price fetched by an Abyssinian girl, the slave of 'Awn, namely 120,000 dinars?" The Baghdad musician Ishâk al-Mawsilî said: "They used not to train beautiful [Arabic-looking] slave girls to sing, but they used only to train yellow and black girls. The first to teach valuable girls to sing was my father." In the Moslem world, qiyân had the opportunity to receive an education, learn literature, and possibly attain a lucrative concubinage; they worked as courtesans for the profit of their owners. Rich men owned large numbers of them; a description of an Umayyad festival in the early eighth century mentions "fifty singing girls with lutes behind a curtain while the famous Jamila sang and played her lute in front of the curtain." |
| it appears that the first professional musicians in al-Andalus (Moorish Spain) were qiyân. With the singing-girls came their musical instruments. Singers and instruments were to have a profound influence on thirteenth-century European music, and particularly on the troubadours. By the end of the tenth century, Sevilla was known as a center of training for qiyân, where they were trained not by men but by older women of Sevilla, and were sold for high prices to the kings of Maghrib and Ifrîkiya (Africa), along with "an accompanying register containing all [of the songs] she has memorized." He adds that if a qayna was a consummate artist who was "an expert in all instruments, and in all kinds of dance and shadow play, and comes with her instrument, along with [an entourage of] slave girls to beat the drum and play the reed for her," she could be sold for many thousands of dinars |
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| QC | abbreviation of 'Queen's Counsel' |
| qcm | abbreviation of questionnaire à choix multiple (French m.: multiple choice question paper, multiple choice test) |
| q.d. | abbreviation of quasi dicat (Latin: as if one should say), quasi dictum (Latin: as if said) |
| q.e. | abbreviation of quod est (Latin: which is) |
| Q.E.D. | abbreviation of quod erat demonstrandum (Latin: which was to be proved - often written at the end of a mathematical proof) |
| Qeej | see gaeng |
| Qengkari | small Korean gong |
| Q.E.F | abbreviation of quod erat faciendum (Latin: which was to be done) |
| Q.E.I | abbreviation of quod erat inveniendum (Latin: which was to be discovered, what was to be found out) |
| Qene Mahlet | the division of Ethiopian Orthodox churches into three sections follows the pattern of the Jewish Temple. Every Church is divided into the Meqdes (the Holy of Holies where the altar is situated and which only the clergy may enter), the Qiddest or place of Communion and the Qene Mahlet where the singers perform |
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| Q'eqchi | a Guatemalan instrumental style played on violin and guitar with a harp ensemble |
| Qewels | or qewals, musicians and singers of the Yazidi (or Yezidi) sect |
| Q.G. | abbreviation of quartier général (French m.: headquarters - the equivalent abbreviation in English is HQ) |
| Q.I. | abbreviation of quotient intellectuel (French m.: intelligence quotient - the equivalent abbreviation in English is IQ) |
| abbreviation of quoziente d'intelligenza (Italian m.: intelligence quotient - the equivalent abbreviation in English is IQ) |
| Qiangdi | (China) the original name for the xiao, so called because it was associated with the Qiang people in Sichuan and Gansu provinces |
| Qigong | (China) a wide variety of traditional cultivation practices that involve methods of accumulating, circulating, and working with qi, breathing or energy within the body. Qigong is practiced for health maintenance purposes, as a therapeutic intervention, as a medical profession, a spiritual path and/or component of Chinese martial arts |
- Qigong from which this extract has been taken
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| Qin | (Chinese) one of the oldest and most sophisticated instruments of China, it is a seven string fretless zither often referred to in the West as 'The Scholar's Lute' |
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| Qing | (Chinese) originally called shi (stone) and minqiu (ringing bell) and similar to the bianzhong (reserved for royal music performance), the qing is a clapperless bell |
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| Qin pipa | see ruan |
| Qinpu | tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin |
- Qinpu from which this extract has been taken
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| Qinqiang | also dubbed Luantan, Qinqiang Opera is a local Chinese opera that mainly thrives in North China's Shaanxi Province, as well as its neighbouring northwestern regions, like Gansu and Qinghai provinces and the Ningxia Hui and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions |
- Qinqiang from which this extract has been taken
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| Qin xian | (Chinese) strings, e.g. on a ruan |
| Qinzheng | see guzheng |
| Qin zhou | (Chinese) tuning pegs, as on the erhu |
| QIP | abbreviation of quiescat in pace (Latin: may (he or she) rest in peace) |
| Qiyân | see qayna |
| qk | abbreviation of 'quick' |
| ql | abbreviation of 'quintal' (100 kg) |
| Qld | abbreviation of 'Queensland' |
| qlty | abbreviation of 'quality' |
| qly | abbreviation of 'quarterly' |
| q.m. | abbreviation of quomodo (Latin: by what means) |
| qn | abbreviation of 'question', 'quotation' |
| qnt(s) | abbreviation of 'quintet(s)' |
| qnty | abbreviation of 'quantity' |
| Qq. | abbreviation of 'Quartos' (Shakespeare manuscripts) |
| qq. | abbreviation of 'questions' |
| qq.v. | abbreviation of quae vide (Latin: which see - textual cross reference) |
| qr. | abbreviation of 'quarter', 'quarterly', 'quire' |
| Q rating | ad research rating that gauges how easily a celebrity is recognised, and how well the celebrity is liked |
| Qraqebs | a form of castanets used by the Gwana of Morocco |
| Q.S | abbreviation of quantum sufficit (Latin: as much as suffices) |
| Qsbah | a Moroccan flute (flute) associated with the Jilala Sufi brotherhood, known for their hypnotic and otherworldly music |
| qt(s) | abbreviation of 'quartet(s)' |
| qt. | abbreviation of 'quantity' |
| qtly | abbreviation of 'quarterly' |
| qto | abbreviation of 'quarto' |
| qtr | abbreviation of 'quarter' |
| qty | abbreviation of 'quantity' |
| qu. | abbreviation of 'quarter', 'querterly', 'query', 'question' |
| Qua | (Latin) in so far as (it is), as being, in the capacity of |
| (Italian) here, hither |
| Qu'à cela ne tienne. | (French) That's no problem. |
| Quacquerismo | (Italian m.) Quakerism |
| Quacquero | (Italian m.) Quaker |
| quacquero | (Italian) Quaker |
| Quacksalber | (German m.) quack |
| quad. | abbreviation of 'quadraphonic', 'quadruplicate' |
| Quaderna | (Italian f.) set of four numbers |
| Quadernaria | see misura |
| Quadernetto | (Italian m.) note book |
| Quaderno | (Italian m.) part, number, pamphlet, exercise book, notebook, copy-book |
| Quadra | (Italian f.) square sail |
| quadrada |  | (Catalan f.) double whole note, breve |
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| Quadragénaire | (French m./f.) forty-year-old man, forty-year-old woman |
| quadragénaire | (French) forty-year old |
| Quadragesima | (Italian f.) Lent (the Christian period of fasting, prayer and almsgiving) |
| Quadragesima Sunday | the Sunday occurring after Ash Wednesday. In Roman Catholic tradition, it is the first Sunday during the holy season of Lent. Like on other Sundays of Lent, it is customary to dispense from the fast on Quadragesima, as Sundays are not counted among the forty days of Lent |
| Quadragésime | (French f.) Lent (the Christian period of fasting, prayer and almsgiving) |
| quadragesimo | (Italian) fortieth |
| Quadran | see passamezzo moderno |
| Quadrangle | (English, French m.) quadrilateral, a four-sided polygon |
| (English, French m.) or quad, a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings |
| quadrangolare | (Italian) quadrangular |
| Quadrangolo | (Italian m.) quadrangle |
| quadrangulaire | (French) quadrangular |
| Quadrant | see passamezzo moderno |
| (English, French m.) a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies, a quarter of the circumference of a circle, (in architecture) a reference to a curve in a wall or a vaulted ceiling, a device for fastening the upper and the lower leaves of a Dutch door |
| Quadrante | (Italian m.) quadrant, dial (of a watch) |
| Quadrante solare | (Italian m.) sun-dial (portable) |
| Quadraphonics | a system of sound reproduction that uses four transmission channels |
| Quadraphony | a system of sound reproduction that uses four transmission channels |
| Quadrare | (Italian m.) square, ring (boxing) |
| quadrare | (Italian) to square, to adjust, to balance, to fit in |
| Quadras | four verse songs sung by a soloist and answered by the chorus, typical of capoeira regional |
| Quadrat | (German n.) square |
| Quadrat |  | (German n.) natural sign, the sign placed before a note that is neither sharpened or flattened, usually to cancel a previously applied sharp or flat |
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| Quadrate | | (Latin) natural sign, the sign placed before a note that is neither sharpened or flattened, usually to cancel a previously applied sharp or flat |
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| quadratisch | (German) square |
| Quadratista (s.), Quadratisti (pl.) | (Italian m./f.) an artist specialising in the transformation of interiors by trompe-l'oeil perspective painting |
| Quadratmeter | (German m./n.) square metre |
| Quadratmusik | (German f.) musica quadrata or 'square music', old mensurable music, so-called because of the shape of its note signs |
| Quadratnotation | (German f.) Gregorian chant notation |
| Quadrato | (Italian m.) square |
| quadrato | (Italian) square, levelheaded (figurative), strong (figurative), sensible (figurative), shrewd (figurative), firm, sound |
| Quadratura | (Italian f.) the transformation of interiors by trompe-l'oeil perspective painting, squaring, quadrature (mathematics, astronomy) |
| Quadrature | (English, French f.) a class of painted mural decorations depicting architectural subjects, the construction of a square having the same area as some other figure |
| (English, French f.) (in astronomy) the arrangement of the earth, sun, and another planet or the moon in which the angle subtended at the earth between the sun and the third body, in the plane of the ecliptic, is 90° |
| Quadrature du cercle | (French f.) squaring the circle (figurative: attempting the impossibile) |
| Quadreble | see quatreble |
| Quadrella | (Italian f.) four-sided file, square tile |
| (Italian pl. f.) arrows (poetical) |
| Quadrello | (Italian m.) square tile |
| quadrettare | (Italian) to divide into squares, to chequer |
| quadrettato | (Italian) squared, check (pattern) |
| Quadretto | (Italian m.) small picture, small square (in a check pattern, on a chess-board, etc.) |
| Quadretti | (Italian) check (pattern) |
| Quadri | (Italian m. pl.) diamonds (cards), pictures |
| Quadrichord | an instrument, described by Jacobus of Liege (c. 1325), with four strings whose lengths satisfy the following recipe: an octave (12:6) between the outer notes, two fifths (12:8, 9:6), two fourths (12:9, 8:6), and a tonus or major second between the two middle notes (9:8), i.e. based on Pythagorean tuning which is described in medieval sources as being based on four numbers: (12:9:8:6) |
| Quadrichromie | (French f.) four-colour printing process |
| Quadricinium | (Latin) a composition in four parts |
| Quadricolour | a printing process that uses four different printing plates capable of creating a natural looking image. It was most widely used with CYMK colours in offset printing though a number of shifting colour variations is possible |
| quadriennal (m.), quadriennale (f.) | (French) quadrennial (four-year period) |
| Quadriennio | (Italian m.) a period of four years |
| quadrifogliato | (Italian) four-leaved |
| Quadrifoglio | (Italian m.) four-leafed shamrock (supposedly, a sign of good luck) |
| Quadrifonia | (Italian f.) quadraphony |
| Quadrifônico | (Portuguese) quadraphonic |
| Quadriga (s.), Quadrigae (pl.) | (Latin) a chariot drawn by four horses harnesses abreast |
| Quadriglia | (Italian f.) quadrille (English), Quadrille (German f.), quadrille de contre danse (French m.) (named for the series of five or six contre-danses from which it is formed - Le pantalon (trousers), L'été (summer), La poule (hen), La Trénise (named for the Viennese dancing master), La pastourelle (shepherdess) and La Finale) was named after a card game for four players that appeared about 1740. Quadrilles, probably derived from the Cotillion, were first introduced in France about 1760. The word Quadrille means literally, to assemble four or more ladies and the same number of gentlemen to make a set. The dance became a popular feature of parties and celebrations hosted at the courts of Europe. In Italy, the dance moved into the regions, went through many changes and simplifications, before becoming a popular folk dance. Almost every village in Italy developed its own version of La Quadriglia, used to celebrate marriages, family events and victories |
| by the late 1810s, under siege from the 'Quadrille', dancing masters began to invent "new" forms of country dance, often with figures borrowed from the 'Quadrille', and giving them exotic names such as the Danse Ecossoise and Danse Espagnuole which suggested entire new dances but actually covered very minor variations in the classic form. A few of these dances became sufficiently popular that they survived through the entire nineteenth century |
| (Jamaica) this ballroom set dance was danced in Jamaica by the gentry during slavery. There are two styles - the 'Ballroom' and the 'Camp Style' - the former European, the latter the Creolized version. Mento Bands accompany these dances, playing a variety of traditional European tunes, except for the fifth figure which employs the mento, the first music created by Jamaicans themselves |
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| Quadrilateral | a four-sided polygon (examples include squares, rectangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, etc.) |
| Quadrilatère | (French m.) quadrilateral |
| Quadrilatero | (Italian m.) a shape that is four-sided, quadrilateral |
| quadrilatero | (Italian) four-sided, quadrilateral |
| Quadrillage | (French m.) (military) control |
| (French m.) squared (pattern), check (pattern), criss-cross or grid (pattern or layout) |
| Quadrille | (French m., German f.) quadriglia (Italian f.) |
| (French m.) an obsolete square dance for four couples, containing five separate sets of figures |
| quadrillé (m.), quadrillée (f.) | (French) squared (paper, etc.) |
| Quadrille des lanciers | (French m.) lancers (a quadrille for eight or sixteen couples) |
| Quadrille flageolet | see flageolet |
| quadriller | (French) to cover, to control, to mark out (paper) in squares, to criss-cross (with roads, paths, etc.) |
| Quadrille tanzen, eine | (German) to dance a quadrille |
| Quadrillion | (English, French m.) in US and modern UK, 1015 (a thousand trillion) |
| (English, French m.) formerly, in the UK, 1024 (a million trillion) |
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| Quadrimestre | (Italian m.) a period of four months |
| quadriparti (m.), quadripartie (f.) | (French) or quadripartite (French), involving four parties, divided into or composed of four parts |
| Quadripartite | (from Latin) in music, a composition for four voices, a quartet, a composition in four parts for voices or instruments |
| of a vault, each bay is divided into four sections by the vaulting ribs |
| Quadriphonie | (French f.) quadraphony |
| quadriphonique | (French) quadraphonic |
| Quadrisyllabe | (French m.) quadrisyllable |
| quadrisyllabique | (French) quadrisyllablic |
| Quadrisyllable | a word consisting of four syllables |
| Quadrivio (s.), Qadrivivi (pl.) | (Italian m.) meeting of four roads, cross-roads |
| Quadrivium | one of the divisions of the seven liberal arts studied in medieval times |
| the mathematical four, the quadrivium |
| arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and music |
| the rhetorical three, the trivium |
| grammar, logic, and rhetoric |
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| Quadro | (Italian m.) painting, square (pattern), sight, table, scene (in the theatre), description, summary, picture (literal and figurative), cadre (military) |
| (Portuguese) frame |
in music, a work for four players or an ensemble made up of four players, a foursome (in other words, a quartet, one more than a trio, two more than a duet: for example, Quadro Nuevo - a German quartet playing tango, Quadro Amsterdam - a quartet whose members included of Gustav Leonhardt (keyboard), Anner Bylsma (cello), Frans Brüggen (flute/recorder) and Jaap Schröder (violin) or Quadro in G minor by Telemann - a work scored for recorder, violin, gamba and organ)
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| (Italian m.) natural sign, the sign placed before a note that is neither sharpened or flattened, usually to cancel a previously applied sharp or flat |
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| quadro | (Italian) square, strong (figurative), sensible |
| Quadro d'autore | (Italian m.) genuine master |
| Quadro di distribuzione | (Italian m.) distribution board |
| Quadro musicale | (Italian m.) tone painting |
| Quadroon | 'quadroon', 'octoroon' and, more rarely, 'quintroon' were historically racial categories of hypodescent used in Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana. The terms were also used in Australia to refer to people of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry. Specifically, a quadroon is a person having one-quarter Black ancestry |
| Quadro pavan | see passamezzo moderno |
| Quadrophonic | a sound system that uses four independent speakers (or sets of speakers), the fore-runner of today's 'Surround Sound' |
| Quadrophonie | (German f.) quadraphony |
| Quadrophony | technology used for recording and reproduction of stereo sound with four channels. There are two front speakers and two rear speakers in quadrophonic systems. In 1970s quadrophony was promoted as the next-generation standard expected to supercede two channel stereo |
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| Quadrupede | (Italian m.) quadruped |
| quadrupede | (Italian) four-footed |
| Quadrupède | (French m.) quadruped |
| Quadrupelfuge | (German f.) quadruple fugue, a fugue with four subjects |
| Quadrupelkonzert | (German n.) quadruple concerto (a concerto with four soloists) |
| Quadruple | (English, French) four-fold |
| (French m.) (in music) quadruplet, quartina (Italian), Quartole (German) |
| (English, French) in music, a prefix indicating four elements |
| quadruple concerto | concerto for four solo instruments and an accompanying ensemble |
| quadruple counterpoint | counterpoint with four melodies whch are mutually invertible |
| quadruple fugue | a fugue with four subjects |
| quadruple meter | see 'quadruple time' |
| quadruple stop | a chord of four notes on a bowed stringed instrument |
| simple quadruple time | the time signatures 4/2, 4/4 or C, 4/8 |
| compound quadruple time | the time signatures 12/4, 12/8, 12/16 |
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| Quadruple concerto | see 'quadruple' |
| Quadruple counterpoint | see 'quadruple' |
| Quadruple croche |  | (French f., literally 'four hooks') a demisemiquaver (thirty-second note), a note one thirty-second the time value of a whole note or semibreve, Vierundsechzigstelnote (German) |
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| Quadruple fugue | see 'quadruple' |
| Quadruple meter | see 'quadruple' |
| Quadruple quaver | a demisemiquaver (thirty-second note), a note one thirty-second the time value of a whole note or semibreve |
| quadrupler | (French) to quadruple, to increase four-fold |
| Quadruplés (m.pl.), Quadruplées (f.pl.) | (French) quadruplets, quads (four children in one confinement) |
| Quadruple stop | see 'quadruple' |
| Quadruplet | quartina (Italian), Quartole (German), quadruple (French) |
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| 4 notes written in the time of 3 of the same note but also in the time of 3 beats of double the time value, for example: 4 quavers (eighth notes) in the time of 3 quavers (eighth notes); but sometimes (as in the example above) 4 semiquavers (sixteenth notes) in the time of 3 quavers (eighth notes) |
| Quadruple time | that time in which the bar contains four divisions or beats |
| quadruplicare | (Italian) to quadruple, to multiply by four |
| quadruplice | (Italian) quadruple, four-fold |
| Quadruplo | (Italian m.) quadruple, in four parts |
| quadruplo | (Italian) quadruple, four-fold |
| Quadruplum (s.), Quadrupla (pl.) | (Latin) the fourth voice |
| (Latin) in quadruplum organum, the top line above the triplum (the second line from the top), duplum/motetus (the third line from the top) and tenor (the bottom line) |
| Quaere | (Latin, 'inquire!') introducing a question or forming a memorandum that investigation is called for |
| Quaesitum (s.), Quaesita (pl.) | (Latin) that which has to be decided or determined, the solution to a problem |
| Quaestor | (Latin) public treasurer, any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration) |
| Quae vide | (Latin) see these things |
| quaggiù | (Italian) down here, here below, in this world |
| Quaglia | (Italian f.) quail (small bird) |
| quagliarsi | (Italian) to curdle (milk) |
| Quagliata | (Italian f.) curds, junket |
| Quagliere (s.), Quaglieri (pl.) | (Italian m.) found in Italy, Sicily and Malta, a duct hunting whistle, operated via a small air-filled pouch, that imitates the cry of the quail and is used as a lure. In Maltese whistle of a similar kind is known as the kwaljarin or kuljurin |
| Quaglio | (Italian m.) rennet |
| Quai | (French m.) platform (station), quay (port), embankment (river), wharf, |
| Quail | a wind-instrument that mimics the sound of the bird of the same name |
| quaken | (German) to quack, to croak (frog) |
| quäken | (German) to screech, to whine (of a baby) |
| Quaker (m.), Quakeresse (f.) | (French) Quaker |
| Quäker (m.), Quäkerin (f.) | (German) Quaker |
| Quakerism | the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in England in the 17th century as a Christian religious denomination by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally credit George Fox with being the principal co-founder or most important early figure. The Society of Friends is counted among the historic peace churches. Society members are known as Quakers or Friends |
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| Quakerisme | (French m.) Quakerism |
| Qual (s.), Qualen (pl.) | (German f.) torment, agony |
| qual. | abbreviation of 'qualification', 'qualitative', 'quality' |
| qualche | (Italian) some, a few, any |
| qualche cosa | (Italian) qualcosa, something, anything |
| qualche volta | (Italian) sometimes |
| qualcosa | (Italian) something, anything |
| qualcos'altro | (Italian) something else, anything else |
| qualcuno | (Italian) someone, somebody, anyone, anybody, some |
| quale | (Italian) what? which? |
| (Italian) what, what a, as, just as, such as |
| quale e quale | (Italian) the same |
| quälen | (German) to torment, to torture, to pester |
| quälend | (German) agonizing |
| Quälerei | (German f.) torture, agony |
| Quälgeist | (German m.) pest |
| Qualifica | (Italian f.) qualification, title, designation |
| qualificare | (Italian) to qualify, to define |
| qualificarsi | (Italian) to be placed |
| Qualificateur | (French m.) (linguistics) qualifier |
| Qualificatif | (German m., French m.) (descriptive) term, qualifier |
| qualificatif (m.), qualificative (f.) | (French) qualifying |
| Qualificatif de l'intervalle | (French m.) the quality of a harmonic or melodic interval, namely, major (French, majeur), minor (French, mineur), perfect (French, juste), augmented (French, augmenté), diminished (French, diminué) and occasionally sur-augmenté (French: double augmented) and sous-diminué (French: double diminished) |
| Qualification | (English, French f.) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something, a restriction in meaning, a dependence on something else, modification (the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase) |
| (French f.) description, label |
| Qualification de la composition des intervalles | (French f.) intervallic descriptors, namely: diminué (French: diminished), mineur (French: minor), majeur (French: major), juste (French: perfect), augmenté (French: augmented) |
| Qualification professionnelle | (French f.) professional qualification |
| qualificativo | (Italian) qualifying |
| Qualificazione | (Italian f.) qualification |
| qualifié (m.), qualifiée (f.) | (French) qualified, skilled |
| (French) aggravated (judicial), blatant (figurative: hypocracy), sheer (figurative: robbery) |
| non qualifié (m.), non qualifiée (f.) (French: unskilled) |
| Qualifier | a word or phrase that qualifies, limits or modifies the meaning of another word or phrase |
| one that has or fulfils all appropriate qualifications, for a position, office, or task |
| qualifier | (French) to describe, to qualify |
| qualifier de | (French) to describe as |
| qualifier pour | (French) to qualify for (sport, etc.) |
| Qualifikation | (German f.) qualification |
| qualifizieren | (German) to qualify |
| qualifiziert | (German) qualified, competent, skilled |
| Qualita | (Italian f.) quality, property, profession, capacity, status, kind (specie) |
| Qualität | (German f.) quality |
| qualitatif (m.), qualitative (f.) | (French) qualitative |
| Qualitative change | in linguistics, an alteration in the perceived quality of a sound or the basic nature of a sound |
| qualitativement | (French) qualitatively |
| Qualitative meter | meter that relies on patterns of heavily stress syllables and lightly stressed meters |
| Qualité | (French f.) quality (product, etc.), occupation, position (post), capacity, skill |
| Qualité de vie, la | (French f.) quality of life, the |
| Qualité de directeur | (French f.) position as director |
| Qualité de marie | (French f.) capacity as mayor |
| Qualité littéraire (s.), Qualités littéraires (pl.) | (French f.) literary quality (s.), literary qualities (pl.) |
| Qualités de coeur | (French f.) noble-heartedness |
| Qualités requises | (French f.) necessary skills |
| Qualité supérieure | (French f.) superior quality |
| Quality | specie (Italian), qualification (French), a collective term for number of semitone (half-tones) in an interval (i.e. whether the interval is diminished, minor, major, augmented or perfect) |
| a term denoting the particular choice of third, fifth, and seventh in a chord, i.e. major, dominant, minor, tonic minor, half-diminished and diminished. While in music theory augmented major and augmented (dominant) are also considered 'qualities', in jazz music theory they are usually considered alterations |
| more generally, the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy a given need or requirement; also described as "fitness for purpose" or "value for money" as perceived by the customer or consumer |
| Quality (of tone) | qualita (Italian), timbro (Italian), Tonfarbe (German), timbre (French, English), tone colour |
| Qualle | (German f.) jellyfish |
| Qualm | (German m.) (thick) smoke |
| qualmen | (German) to smoke |
| qualmente | (Italian) how, as |
| qualn | abbreviation of 'qualification' |
| qualora | (Italian) in case, when, whenever, if |
| qualsiasi | (Italian) any, whatever |
| qualunque | (Italian) any, whatever |
| qualvoll | (German) agonizing |
| qualvolta | (Italian) whenever |
| quand | (French) when |
| quand bien même | (French) even though, even if |
| quand le chat est loin, les souris dansent | (French) when the cat's away the mice wil play (proverb) |
| quand les poules auront des dents | (French) when pigs have wings (humorous) |
| quand même | (French) all the same |
| quando | (Italian) when, whenever, if, sometimes (as in quando ... quando ...: (Italian: sometimes ... sometimes ...)) |
| Quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue! | (French) Speak of the devil! |
| Quanoon | see kanun |
| quant. | abbreviation of 'quantitive', 'quantity' |
| quant à | (French) as for, as to, as regards, regarding |
| quant à cela | (French) as to that, as regards that, as far as that goes |
| Quant-à-moi | (French m.) reserve (aloofness, mine) |
| quant à moi | (French) as for me |
| Quant-à-soi | (French m.) reserve (aloofness, his) |
| Quanti (m.pl.), Quante (f.pl.) | (Italian) how many, as |
| Quantième | (French m.) day (of the month) |
| Quantifiability | the degree to which a thing can be quantified |
| Quantifiable | (English, French) capable of being quantified |
| Quantificateur | (French m.) quantifier |
| Quantification | (English, French f.) a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no'), the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something |
| Quantifier | (English, French m.) a term occasionally applied to a numeral or another word denoting quantity when used as a modifier of another word (for example, in English, 'fifteen', 'many') |
| quantifier | (French) to quantify, to quantize |
| quantique | (French) quantum |
| Quantisation | to quantise is to force all notes played to fall on the nearest beat specified. It shifts events (like note-on) to an exact rhythmic position |
| quantisieren | (German) to quantize |
| Quantita | (Italian f.) quantity, amount |
| Quantität | (German f.) quantity |
| quantitatif (m.), quantitative (f.) | (French) quantitative |
| Quantitative | expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement, relating to the measurement of quantity |
| (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables |
| Quantitative change | in linguistics, an alteration in the length of a sound - particularly vowel sounds |
| quantitativement | (French) quantitatively |
| Quantitative meter | meter that relies not on the alternation of heavily stressed or lightly stressed syllables, but rather on the alternation of "long syllables" and "short syllables" (i.e., syllables categorized accordingly to the time interval it takes for the human mouth to pronounce the syllable) |
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| Quantité | (French f.) quantity (sum, number), amount |
| Quantité de | (French f.) (when preceded by une) a great many, a lot of |
| Quantité de gens | (French f.) (preceded by une) a great many people, a lot of people |
| Quantité d'indices | (French f.) many signs, great number of signs |
| Quantité négligeable | (French f.) negligible quantity, negligible amount, insignificant amount, minimal amount |
| Quantization | quantisation |
| quanto | (Italian) how much, how many, what a lot of, how long, as much, so much, those who, all those who, as much as, as many as |
| quanto a | (Italian) as for, as to, as regards, for |
| quanto è bello! | (Italian) how nice! |
| quanto prima | (Italian) soon, as soon as possible |
| Quantum (s.), Quanta (pl.) | (Latin, French m., German n.) a quantity, a share, a quota, an apportionment |
| Quantum meruit | (Latin) a fair recompense for services rendered where no rate of payment has been agreed |
| Quantum sufficit | see Q.S. |
| quantunque | (Italian) though, although |
| Quantz flute | Frederick the Great, king of Prussia (1712-1786), one of history's most famous amateur musicians, maintained a superior eighteenth-century European court orchestra. It included among its principal players Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), son of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Although a gifted amateur composer, Frederick was chiefly a passionate flute player. In 1741 he secured the services of Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) to reside at the court as the king's personal music teacher, among other duties. Accomplished in all aspects of musicianship, Quantz eventually specialized in the flute. During the second quarter of the century he introduced improvements to the standard one-keyed instrument, including a second key and other innovative features. Although Quantz's well-known writings encouraged the use of his new two-keyed flute, his instrument had little success outside the area in which he lived. The majority of Quantz's flutes were made for his royal student, Frederick |
| quaquaginta | (Latin) forty |
| quar. | abbreviation of 'quarter', 'quarterly' |
| Quaranta | (Italian m.) forty (number) |
| quaranta | (Italian) forty |
| Quarantaine | (French f.) about forty, quarantine |
| Quarantäne | (German f.) quarantine |
| Quarante | (French m.) forty |
| Les Quarantes (French m. pl.: the members of the French Academy) |
| Quarante-cinq tours | (French m.) forty-five (r.p.m. record), EP (record) |
| Quarantena | (Italian f.) quarantine |
| Quarantenaire | (French m.) fortieth anniversary |
| quarantenaire | (French) forty-year (period) |
| quarantenne | (Italian) forty-year-old |
| Quarantesimo | (Italian m.) fortieth |
| quarantesimo | (Italian) fortieth |
| Quarantième | (French m./f.) fortieth |
| quarantième | (French) fortieth |
| quarantièmement | (French) in the fortieth place |
| Quarantina | (Italian f.) about forty, some forty, quarantine |
| Quarantottata | (Italian f.) rash venture |
| Quarantotto | (Italian) forty-eight |
| il Quarantotto (Italian: the risings of 1848, particularly those in Milan) |
| Quaresima | (Italian f.) Lent (religious festival) |
| quaresimale | (Italian) Lenten (of or pertaining to Lent) |
| quarenta | (Catalan) forty |
| Quark | (English, French m., German m.) a salt-free, soft cheese made from semi skimmed milk (the word is also used colloquially in German to mean 'rubbish') |
| Quarr Monastery | founded in 1908 and established by French Benedictines fleeing persecution. As well as farming the monks are known for their music, painting, weaving, and carpentry |
| Quart | (French m.) quarter, watch (on a ship), a beaker (of 1/4 litre capacity) |
| Quarta | (Latin, Italian f., Catalan f., Portuguese f.) the interval of a perfect fourth, Quarte (German f.), quarte (French f.), cuarta (Spanish f.) |
| (Latin, Italian f., Catalan f., Portuguese f.) the fourth part or voice in a composition |
| Quarta corda | (Italian f.) fourth string, on a violin this is the G string |
| Quartakkord | (German m.) fourth chord |
| Quartal | (German n.) quarter |
| Quartal chords | chords built of the interval of a fourth; the fourth does not have to be perfect in quality; notation: 3x4 on B = 3 note quartal chord starting on B |
| Quartale | (Italian m.) quarter of an actor's salary |
| Quartal harmony | in organum, or in any harmonic system, quartal harmony is that based upon the interval of a fourth although most Western music is based on the interval of a third (tertian harmony); quartal harmony has been used in some twentieth-century music and in jazz by McCoy Tyner of the John Coltrane Quartet in the 1960s |
| Quarta modi | (Latin, Italian) the fourth degree of a scale, the subdominant |
| Quarta toni | (Latin, Italian) the fourth degree of a scale, the subdominant |
| Quartbassfagott | a larger fagott pitched a fourth below the standard instrument |
on the various unusual sizes of Fagott : the Quintfagott is a fifth higher as the bassoon is, so an instrument "in c" with as the lowest note an F. The Quartfagott is, an instrument in b-flat going down to G, a fourth above the bassoon. Confusing can be that also a Quintbassfagott and a Quartbassfagott did exist, a fifth and a fourth lower than the regular bassoon. And then we had the Tenoroon or Octavfagott or Fagottino, one octave above the bassoon, and the Contrafagott one octave below
[information taken from the Contrabass-list 2 Jan 1998 Vol 1 No. 80] |
| Quart de finale | (French) quarter-final |
| Quart d'heure | (French) quarter of an hour |
| Quart de litre | (French) quarter litre |
| Quart de mesure |  | or |  | (French m.) a crotchet rest, a quarter rest, a rest one quarter the time value of a whole rest or semibreve rest |
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| Quart de pausa | | or | | (Catalan f.) a crotchet rest (quarter rest) of which four equal the time value of a whole rest or semibreve rest |
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| Quart de queue | (French m.) or crapaud (French), miniature grand piano (between 1.38 and 1.58 metre in length) |
| Quart de siècle | (French) (preceded by un) a quarter century |
| Quart de son | (French m.) quarter tone |
| Quart de soupir |  | (French m.) a semiquaver rest, a sixteenth rest, a rest one sixteenth the time value of a whole note rest or semibreve rest, Sechzehntelpause (German) |
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| Quart de ton | (French m.) quarter tone |
| Quart de tour | (French m.) quarter turn (of a screw, etc.) |
| Quart d'heure | (French) quarter of an hour |
| Quarte | (French f., German f.) (interval of a) fourth, quarta (Italian f.), cuarta (Spanish f.) |
| (French f.) quart (liquid measure = two pints) |
| Quarte de nazard | (French f.) an organ stop identical with the fifteenth (i.e. two octaves above the diapason) |
| Quarte du ton | (French f.) the fourth degree of a scale, the subdominant |
| Quarte juste | (French f.) perfect fourth |
| Quartenakkord | (German m.) a fourth chord |
| Quartenfolgen | (German pl.) consecutive fourths |
| Quartenparallelen | (German pl.) parallel fourths |
| Quarter-comma meantone | the most common meantone temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was sometimes used later. In this tuning the perfect fifth is tempered by one quarter of a syntonic comma in order to obtain just major thirds (5:4). It was described by Pietro Aron (also spelled Aaron), in his Toscanello de la Musica of 1523, by saying the major thirds should be tuned to be "sonorous and just, as united as possible." Later theorists Gioseffo Zarlino and Francisco de Salinas described the tuning with mathematical exactitude |
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| nach dem Spiegel geschnitten (German), débité sur maille (French), taglio radiale (Italian), wood cut in a radial direction to form a wedge, rather like cutting a slice of cake |
| Quarter note |  | a crotchet, a note one quarter the time value of a whole note or semibreve |
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| Quarteron | (French m.) small band, insignificant band, minor group |
| Quarteron (m.), Quarteronne (f.) | (French) quadroon (a person having one-quarter Black ancestry) |
| Quarter rest | | or | | a crotchet rest, a rest one quarter the time value of a whole rest or semibreve rest, pausa di semiminima (Italian f.), soupir (French m.), Viertelpause (German f.), silencio de negra (Spanish f.), pausa de negra (Spanish f.), silencio de semiminima (Spanish m.), pausa de semiminima (Spanish f.) |
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| Quarter tone | a microtonal interval half that of a semitone |
| Antoine de Bertrand's first two volumes of chansons (Les amours de Pierre de Ronsard (4vv, 1576) (second edition 1578) - containing 35 chansons; Second livre des amours de Pierre de Ronsard (4vv, 1578) - containing 25 chansons) are settings of poems which describe the stages and incidents in a love affair gone sour. Some of the harmonic language used in the chansons is daring, and approaches the experimental level of Vicentino; Bertrand uses microtones, including quarter-tones, as an expressive device in some of the pieces. The most extreme example of this is the last seventeen measures of the chanson Je suis tellement amoureux, in which Bertrand completely avoids diatonic writing, using "only chromatic and enharmonic, with no mixture of diatonicism except in an interval in the bassecontre and another in the hautecontre, made to express the word 'death'". However, in a later edition of the same songs (published posthumously in 1587) he rewrote the music to avoid the quarter-tones; evidently they were too hard to sing. In the preface he also mentions that music is best when it appeals to the senses, and avoids mathematical subtleties |
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| Quartet | quartetto (Italian m.), Quartett (German n.), quatuor (French m.), cuarteto (Spanish m.), quarteto (Portuguese m.) |
| a work for four independent parts, a body of players who would perform such a work |
| in jazz, a quartet might be a rhythm section of piano, bass and drums, together with a 'horn' (the generic jazz name for saxophones and trumpets) |
| Quarteto | (Portuguese m.) quartet, cuarteto (Spanish m.), quartetto (Italian m.), quatuor (French m.), Quartett (German n.) |
| Quartett | (German n.) quartet, cuarteto (Spanish m.), quartetto (Italian m.), quatuor (French m.) |
| Quartette | (French m.) or quatuor (French m.), quartet (of musicians), cuarteto (Spanish m.), quartetto (Italian m.), Quartett (German n.) |
| (French m.) often used specifically, in French, for a jazz quartet, where quatuor (French m.) would be reserved for a piece of music for four players, or for a group of classical musicians (string quartet, wind quartet, piano quartet, etc.) |
| Quartettino | (Italian m.) a short quartet |
| Quartetto | (Italian m.) quartet, cuarteto (Spanish m.), quatuor (French m.), Quartett (German n.) |
| (Italian m.), a set of four nesting tables |
| Quartfagott | (German n.) a smaller bassoon, a fourth above the pitch of the standard orchestral instrument |
on the various unusual sizes of Fagott : the Quintfagott is a fifth higher as the bassoon is, so an instrument "in c" with as the lowest note an F. The Quartfagott is, an instrument in b-flat going down to G, a fourth above the bassoon. Confusing can be that also a Quintbassfagott and a Quartbassfagott did exist, a fifth and a fourth lower than the regular bassoon. And then we had the Tenoroon or Octavfagott or Fagottino, one octave above the bassoon, and the Contrafagott one octave below
[information taken from the Contrabass-list 2 Jan 1998 Vol 1 No. 80] |
| Quartfagotto | (Italian m.) a small bassoon, a fourth above the pitch of the standard orchestral instrument |
on the various unusual sizes of Fagott : the Quintfagott is a fifth higher as the bassoon is, so an instrument "in c" with as the lowest note an F. The Quartfagott is, an instrument in b-flat going down to G, a fourth above the bassoon. Confusing can be that also a Quintbassfagott and a Quartbassfagott did exist, a fifth and a fourth lower than the regular bassoon. And then we had the Tenoroon or Octavfagott or Fagottino, one octave above the bassoon, and the Contrafagott one octave below
[information taken from the Contrabass-list 2 Jan 1998 Vol 1 No. 80] |
| Quartflöte | (German f.) a flute smaller than the standard instrument, pitched a fourth higher |
| Quartgeige | (German f.) a smaller violin, a fourth higher in pitch than the standard orchestral instrument, also called the violino piccolo |
| Quarticello | (Italian m.) quarter, quarter of an hour |
| Quartier (s.), Quartiers (French pl.) | (French m., German n.) neighbourhood, district, area, quarter (district, part of an animal, pity), quarters (plural format: military barracks, etc.) |
| (French m.) segment (of fruit) |
| (German n.) accommodation |
| Quartier commerçant | (French m.) shopping quarter, shopping district |
| quartier, de | (French) local |
| Quartier de haut surveillance | (French m.) high-security wing (of a prison) |
| Quartier de noblesse | (French m.) degree of noble lineage (representing one generation) |
| Quartier des affairs | (French m.) business district, business quarter |
| quartier, du | (French) local |
| Quartiere | (Italian m.) district, neighbourhood, flat, lodging(s.), ward, quarter (city), barracks, quarters (military) |
| Quartier général | (French m.) headquarter |
| Quartierino | (Italian m.) small flat |
| Quartier latin | (French m.) 'Latin quarter' of Paris, the district on the left bank of the Seine inhabited by students, artists and writers |
| Quartier réservé | (French m.) red-light district |
| Quartier résidentiel | (French m.) residential quarter, residential district |
| Quartier toléré | (French m.) the district in a city of town where the licensed brothels are located |
| Quartile | (English, French m.) (in statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores |
| Quartina | (Italian f.) quadruplet, quatrain (verse) |
| Quartino | (Italian f.) quarter of a litre, pint, small clarinet |
| Quarto | (Italian m.) fourth, quarter, the fourth voice or part in a musical composition |
| (English, Italian m.) a term from early bookmaking, the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves. On a single sheet, the page visible on the right-hand side of an open book or the 'top' side of such a page is called the recto side (Latin, 'right'), and the reverse or 'bottom' side of such a page (the page visible on the left-hand side of an open book) is called the verso side |
| although a quarto volume is typically about 12" x 9" (approx. 30 x 23 cm), roughly the size of most modern magazines, quarto sizes include 15" × 11" (approx. 38 x 28 cm) (imperial quarto), 11" x 8.75" (approx. 28 x 22 cm) (demy quarto, or demy 4to), to 7" × 6" (approx. 19.7 x 15.2 cm) (pot quarto), according to the size of the original sheet. A sheet folded in quarto (also 4to or 4º) is folded in half twice at right angles to make four leaves. It is also called 'eight-page signature' |
| quarto | (Italian) fourth |
| (French) fourthly |
| Quarto d'aspetto | | (Italian m.) a sixteenth rest, a rest one sixteenth the time value of a whole note rest or semibreve rest |
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| Quarto di tuono | (Italian m.) quarter tone |
| Quartogenito | (Italian m.) fourth born, fourth child |
| quartogenito | (Italian) fourth born, fourth child |
| Quartole | (German f.) quadruplet |
| Quartolet | (French m.) quadruplet (i.e. four notes in the time of six notes of the same specie) |
| Quartsextakkord | (German m.) six-four chord (second inversion of a triad) |
| quartus | (Latin) fourth |
| Quartz | (English, French m., German m.) a very hard mineral composed of silica, SiO2, found worldwide in many different types of rocks, including sandstone and granite |
| Quarzo | (Italian m.) quartz |
| Qua se | (Latin) in itself, by its own nature |
| quasi | (Latin) as if, apparently but not really, virtually, a kind of |
| (Italian) as if, almost, nearly, quasi-, in the manner of, just as, as it were, about |
| (French) almost, nearly, near |
| any person exercising powers similar to those of a judge would be sitting in a quasi-judicial capacity |
| quasi allegretto | (Italian) like an allegretto |
| quasi certitude | (French) near certainty |
| quasi guitar | where a violin or viola is held sideways against the body and strummed like a guitar |
| quasi guitara | (Italian) where the strings of a violin or viola are strummed like a guitar, as is called for in the 4th movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol (Scena e canto gitano), where the violins are instructed to play pizzicato "quasi guitara"; the music here consists of three- and four-note chords, which are fingered and strummed much like the instrument being imitated |
- Pizzicato from which the piano entry has been taken
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| Quasihemidemisemiquaver | alternative name for 'semihemidemisemiquaver' or 'one hundred and twenty-eighth note' |
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| quasi mai | (Italian) hardly ever, as if |
| quasiment | (French) almost, nearly |
| Quasimodo, la | (French f.) or le dimanche de Quasimodo (French m.), Low Sunday |
| Quasimodo Sunday | the first Sunday after Easter Sunday, though having no official liturgical name, is colloquially labelled 'Quasimodo Sunday' as the first phrase of the Introit is Quasi modo geniti infantes.... Even though Latin is no longer used widely in the celebration of the Mass, the traditional names remain for purposes of organisation of the calendar |
| quasi niente | (Italian) almost nothing, barely audible, fast nichts (German), presque rien (French) |
| quasi obscurité | (French) near darkness |
| quasi recitativo | (Italian) in the style of a recitative (as in an opera) |
| quasi una fantasia | (Italian) as if it were a fantasia |
| quasseln | (German) to jabber |
| Quassia | (English, Italian f.) a shrub or tree found in the tropical areas of Malaysia and the Americas. Its wood is traditionally used to make tonics and apéritifs. Fizzy drinks such as bitters are flavoured with quassine which is the bitter extract of quassia |
| quassù | (Italian) up here |
| Quaste | (German f.) tassel |
| Quaternaire | (French m.) Quaternary (period) |
| quaternaire | (French) quaternary, of or pertaining to the geological period, the Quaternary |
| Quaternario | (Italian m.) line of four syllables |
| quaternario | (Italian) quaternary, of or pertaining to the geological period, the Quaternary |
| Quaternary | the geologic time period after the Neogene Period, spanning 1.805 +/- 0.005 million years ago to the present. The Quaternary includes two geologic epochs: the Pleistocene and the Holocene Epoch. The 1.8 - 1.6 million years of the Quaternary represents the time during which recognisable humans existed |
| the status of the Quaternary is currently the subject of an ongoing debate |
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| Quatorze | (French m.) fourteen |
| quatorze | (French) fourteen |
| quatorze juillet, le | (French m.) the Fourteenth of July (in France, Bastille Day, a national public holiday) |
| Quatorzième | (French m./f.) fourteenth |
| quatorzième | (French) fourteenth |
| quatorzièmement | (French) fourteenthly, in the fourteenth place |
| Quatrain | (English, French m.) also sometimes used interchangeably in English with 'stave', a poem, or a stanza within a poem, that consists always of four lines. It is the most common of all stanza forms in European poetry and is used with every possible rhyming pattern (though rarely with the last line left unrhymed), but in English often rhyming in an ABAB pattern |
| Quatre | (French m.) four |
| quatre | (French, Catalan) four |
| Quatreble | a voice pitched a fifth above the treble, a term associated with music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods |
| Quatre-heures | (French m.) (children's) afternoon tea |
| Quatre-huit, (mesure à) | (French m.) common time (meter in music) |
| Quatre-mains | (French f.) four hands |
| Quatre quatre | see mesure à quatre quatre |
| quatret | (Catalan m.) quadruplet |
| Quatre-vingt-dix | (French m.) ninety |
| quatre-vingt-dix | (French) ninety |
| quatre-vingt-dixième | (French) ninetieth |
| quatre-vingtième | (French) eightieth |
| Quatre-vingt-onze | (French m.) ninety-one |
| quatre-vingt-onzième | (French m.) ninety-first |
| Quatre-vingts | (French m.) eighty |
| quatre-vingts | (French) eighty |
| Quatre-vingt-un | (French m.) eighty-one |
| Quatre-vingt-unième | (French m.) eighty-first |
| Quatricinium | (Latin) a composition in four parts (the term often applied to works for four brass instruments) |
| Quatrième | (French m./f.) fourth |
| quatrième | (French) fourth |
| Quatrième corde | (French f.) fourth string, on a violin this is the G string |
| quatrièmement | (French) fourthly, in the fourth place |
| Quatsch | (German m.) nonsense, rubbish |
| quatschen | (German) to talk, to natter, to squelch (water) |
| Quatsch machen | (German) to fool around, to do a silly thing |
| quatschnaß | (German) soaking wet |
| quatto | (Italian) crouching, cowering, squat |
| quatto quatto | (Italian) quietly, very quiet, almost silent |
| quattordicenne | (Italian) fourteen-year-old |
| quattordicesimo | (Italian) fourteenth |
| Quattordici | (Italian m.) fourteen, 14th |
| quattordici | (Italian) fourteen, 14th |
| Quattricroma |  | (Italian f.) a hemidemisemiquaver, a sixty-fourth note, a note one sixty-fourth the time value of a whole note or semibreve |
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| Quatrillion | (French m.) quadrillion (UK), septillion (US) |
| Quattrinaio | (Italian m.) rich man, miser |
| Quattrino (s.), Quattrini (pl.) | (Italian m.) farthing, money (plural form) |
| Quattro | (Italian m.) four, 4th |
| quattro | (Italian) four, 4th |
| quattrocchi | (Italian) face to face |
| quattrocentesimo | (Italian) four hundredth |
| Quattrocentista (s.), Quattrocentisti (pl.) | (Italian m./f.) artist or writer of the 15th century |
| Quattrocento | (Italian m.) four hundred |
| quattrocento | (Italian) four hundred |
| Quattrocento, il | (Italian m., literally 'four hundred', a shortened form of mille quattrocento) the fifteenth century in Italian art and literature. The term is often used of the new style of art that was characteristic of the Early Renaissance, in particular works by Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Fra Angelico and others. It was preceded by il Trecento and followed by il Cinquecento, il Siecento and il Settecento |
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| Quattrocento, le | (French m.) il Quattrocento (Italian m.) |
| Quattromila | (Italian m.) four thousand |
| quattromila | (Italian) four thousand |
| Quattro stagioni | (Italian f.) The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) |
| quattuor | (Latin) four |
| quattuordecim | (Latin) fourteen |
| Quatuor | (French m.) quartet (a group of musicians, a musical work for such a group), cuarteto (Spanish m.), quartetto (Italian m.), Quartett (German n.) |
| Quatuor à cordes | (French m.) string quartet |
| Quatuor à vent | (French m.) wind quartet |
| Quatuor brillant | (French m.) from the establishment of the genre by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) the earliest quartets were written with the first violin part being almost like that for a solo instrument, the other three players (second violin, viola and cello) being reduced to the role of mere accompanists. This type of writing persisted well into the nineteenth century |
| Quatuor concertant | (French m.) from the late eighteenth century, a style of string quartet writing where all four parts are given equal status |
| Quatuor de bois | (French m.) woodwind quartet (for example, flute, oboe, clarinet and basson) |
| Quatuor de bois et cuivres | (French m.) quartet of woodwind and brass |
| Quatuor de clarinettes | (French m.) clarinet quartet |
| Quatuor de cuivres | (French m.) brass quartet |
| Quatuor de guitares | (French m.) guitar quartet |
| Quatuor de saxophones | (French m.) saxophone quartet |
| Quatuor de tubas | (French m.) tuba quartet |
| Quatuor pour le fin du temps | (French m.) a musical work written and premiered in Stalag VIII-A, the POW camp where the composer Messaien, clarinettist Henri Akoka, cellist Etienne Pasquier and violinist Jean Le Boulaire were interned in 1940 |
| Quatuor vocal | (French m.) vocal quartet |
| Quaver | corchea (Spanish), croma (Italian), croche (French), eighth note (US), Achtel (German), Achtelnote (German) |
 | an eighth note, one eighth the time value of a whole note or semibreve |
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| Quaver rest | silencio de corchea (Spanish), pausa di croma (Italian), demi-soupir (French), eighth rest (US), Achtelpause (German) |
 | an eighth rest, a rest one eighth the time value of a whole rest or semibreve rest |
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| Qudi | (China) a transverse bamboo flute, with a bamboo membrane over a resonance hole, which produces a buzzing effect. It is popular mainly in the southern part of the Yangtze River and has a clear elegant sound |
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| que | (Spanish) who, whom, which, that |
| (French) that, than, whom, which, when, what, what a, what a lot of, why, whom |
| qué | (Spanish) what, how |
| Que. | abbreviation of 'Quebec' |
| que, qu' | (French) that, than, whom, which, when, what, what a, what a lot of, why, whom |
| ¡qué aburrimiento! | (Spanish) what a bore! |
| ¡qué abuso de confianza! | (Spanish) what a nerve! (colloquial) |
| ¡qué alegría verte! | (Spanish) it's great to see you! |
| ¡qué alivio! | (Spanish) what a relief! |
| ¡qué alto estás! | (Spanish) haven't you grown! |
| ¿qué ancho tiene? | (Spanish) how wide is it? |
| ¡que aproveche! | (Spanish) enjoy your meal! bon appétit! (French) Guten Apetit! (German) |
| ¡qué asco! | (Spanish) how disgusting! how revolting! |
| ¡qué asco de tiempo! | (Spanish) what foul weather! what lousy weather! |
| ¿qué aspecto tiene? | (Spanish) what does he look like? |
| ¡qué asquerosidad de trabajo! | (Spanish) what a rotten job! |
| ¡qué atrocidad! | (Spanish) how terrible! how awful! how atrocious! how barbarous! |
| ¡qué atropellado eres! | (Spanish) you always do things in such a rush! |
| Québec | (French m.) Quebec |
| le Québec (French m.: (the province of) Quebec) |
| Québécois | (French m.) music from the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec |
| (French m.) Quebec French |
| Québécois (m.), Québécois (f.) | (French) a native of Quebec |
| québécois (m.), québécois (f.) | (French) of or pertaining to Quebec |
| Quebec traditional music | the Canadiens inherited a rich tradition of songs and dances from northern France, namely the regions of Île-de-France, Picardy, Normandy, Poitou, and Brittany |
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| Quebrada | (Spanish f.) gorge, pass |
| Quebrada | (Spanish m.) fraction (in mathematics) |
| quebradizo | (Spanish) fragile |
| quebrado | (Spanish) broken, bankrupt |
| Quebradura | (Spanish f.) fracture, gorge |
| quebrantar | (Spanish) to break, to weaken |
| Quebranto | (Spanish m.) loss, damage |
| quebrar | (Spanish) to break |
| (Spanish) to go bankrupt |
| quebrarse | (Spanish.) to break |
| Quechua | (Spanish m./f.) Quechuan |
| quechua | (Spanish) Quechuan |
| Quecksilber | (German n., literally 'quicksilver') mercury |
| que conste que | (Spanish) believe me |
| Queda | (Spanish f.) curfew |
| ¿queda algo de comer? | (Spanish) is there any food left? |
| ¿queda algo de pan? | (Spanish) is there any bread left? |
| quedar | (Spanish) to stay, to remain, to be, to be left |
| quedar aislado | (Spanish) to be cut off |
| quedar bien | (Spanish) to come off well |
| quedar bordado | (Spanish) to come out very well |
| quedar con | (Spanish) to arrange to meet |
| quedar en | (Spanish) to agree to |
| quedar en nada | (Spanish) to come to nothing |
| quedar por | (Spanish) to remain to be |
| quedarse | (Spanish) to stay |
| quedarse atrás | (Spanish) to fall behind |
| quedarse bizco | (Spanish) to be dumbfounded |
| quedarse boquiabierto | (Spanish) to be amazed |
| quedarse de una pieza | (Spanish) to be dumbfounded |
| quedarse tan ancho | (Spanish) to behave as if nothing has happened |
| quedas avisado | (Spanish) you've been warned |
| ¡que Dios nos ampare! | (Spanish) may the Lord help us! |
| Que dites-vous? | (French) I beg your pardon? What did you say? |
| Queen Anne | daughter of James II, her reign extended from 1702 to 1714 |
| Queen Anne's footstool | referring to an apocryphal story involving Queen Anne and its architect Thomas Archer, a name given to the church of St. John, Smith Square, Westminster, which since 1969 has been a popular London concert hall |
| Queenophone | see couesnophone |
| Queensland | (English, French m.) a state in northeastern Australia |
| Queercore | a style of hardcore punk with gay and lesbian-themed lyrics |
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| ¿qué es aquello que se ve allá? | (Spanish) what's that over there? |
| Que faire? | (French) What is to be done? |
| Que faites-vous dans la vie? | (French) What do you do for a living? |
| Quegli | (Italian m.) he, the one |
| Quehacer | (Spanish m.) job |
| Quehaceres domésticos | (Spanish m.) household chores |
| Queja | (Spanish f.) complaint, moan |
| ¡qué jaleo se armó! | (Spanish) there was a real commotion |
| quejarse | (Spanish) to complain, to moan |
| quejarse de | (Spanish) to complain about, to moan about |
| que je sache, (pas) | (French) as far as I know, (not) |
| Quejido | (Spanish m.) moan |
| Quejios | see quejumbre |
| quejoso | (Spanish) complaining |
| Quejumbre | cry of anguish in flamenco singing |
| quel (m.), quelle (f.) | (French) what, which, what, who, whoever, whatever, whichever, whatever |
| que la lumière soit | (French) let there be light |
| Quelbe | music performed on the Virgin Islands by scratch bands. The quelbe and the quadrille, music and dance, are hybrids of their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European counterparts and African rhythms. Though much has changed through the centuries, both are an important part of contemporary Virgin Islands culture |
| quelconque | (French) any, some, ordinary (banal), poor (mediocre) |
| un quelconque or une quelconque (French: any, the least, the slightest) |
| quel dommage | (French) what a shame |
| Que le meilleur gagne. | (French) May the best man win. |
| que le Seigneur ait pité de lui! | (French) (may) the Lord have mercy upon him |
| que les sirva de advertencia | (Spanish) let it be a warning to them |
| Quelle (s.), Quellen (pl.) | (German f.) source, reference, spring (water) |
| quelle chance! | (French) what (a stroke of) luck! |
| quelle charmants enfants! | (French) what charming children! |
| quelle coïncidence! | (French) what a coincidence! |
| quelle connerie! | (French) how stupid! |
| quelle courage! | (French) what courage! |
| quelle dommage! | (French) what a pity! |
| quelle imbécile! | (French) what a fool! |
| quellen | (German) to well, to well up, to pour, to swell, to bulge |
| quellen aus | (German) to pour from |
| Quellenforschung | (German f.) the inestigation of sources (of literary works, etc.), often work considered both unprofitable and stultifying |
| quelle sale temps! | (French) what rotten weather! |
| quelle surprise! | (French) what a surprise! |
| quelle temps! | (French) what weather! |
| quelle toupet! | (French) what (a) nerve! |
| Quelli | (Italian) those (ones) |
| quelli | (Italian) those, those ones |
| Quello | (Italian) that (one) |
| quello | (Italian) that, that one, the one, he, she |
| quello che | (Italian) what |
| Quel métier faites-vous? | (French) What do you do for a living? |
| quelque | (French) certain, some, about |
| quelque ... ans | (French) about ... years |
| quelque autre | (French) some other, some more |
| quelque autre chose | (French) something else, anything else |
| quelque chose | (French) something, anything |
| quelque chose a boire | (French) something else |
| quelque chose d'autre | (French) something else |
| quelque chose de | (French) something |
| quelque chose d'extraordinaire | (French) something extraordinary |
| quelque comme | (French) something like |
| quelquefois | (French) sometimes, occasionally, at times |
| quelque lourds (que) | (French) however heavy |
| quelque part | (French) somewhere |
| quelque part dans un coin | (French) in a corner somewhere |
| quelque peu | (French) rather, somewhat, something of, a bit of |
| quelque peu déçu | (French) rather disappointed, somewhat disappointed |
| quelque ... que | (French) or quelque ... qu', whatever, whichever, however |
| quelques | (French) few, some |
| quelques autres | (French) some others, a few others |
| quelques centaines (de) | (French) a few hundred |
| quelques centaines de personnes | (French) a few hundred people |
| quelques enfants | (French) a few children, some children |
| quelques feuilles de papier | (French) a few sheets of paper |
| quelques instants | (French) a few moments |
| quelques milliers (de) | (French) a few thousand |
| quelques milliers de personnes | (French) a few thousand people |
| quelques poèmes | (French) a few poems, some poems |
| quelques-uns (m.), quelques-unes (f.) | (French) some, a few, a very few |
| quelques-uns de nos lecteurs | (French) a few of our readers, some of our readers |
| quelque temps | (French) some time |
| quelqu'un | (French) someone, somebody, anyone, anybody |
| quelqu'un d'autre | (French) someone else (different), somebody else (different) |
| quelqu'un de plus | (French) someone else (additional), somebody else (additional), one more person |
| quelqu'un de sûr | (French) somebody reliable |
| quelqu'un d'important | (French) somebody important |
| Quel temps fait-il? | (French) How's the weather? |
| Quels temps nous vivons! | (French) What times we live in! |
| quemado | (Spanish) burnt, bitter |
| Quemador | (Spanish m.) burner |
| Quemadura | (Spanish f.) burn |
| quémander | (French) to beg for, to fish for (compliments, information), to angle for (seek indirectly) |
| Quémandeur (m.), Quémandeuse (f.) | (French) beggar |
| quemar | (Spanish) to burn, to set fire to |
| quemarse | (Spanish) to burn oneself, to burn up (consume), to get sunburnt |
| ¡que me aspen si ...! | (Spanish) (I'm) darned if I ... |
| ¿qué médico la atiende? | (Spanish) which doctor usually sees you? |
| Quem quaeritis | (Latin, 'Whom do you seek?') this Latin expression comes from the Vulgate New Testament when the angel addresses the women coming to visit Christ's empty tomb. In the medieval church, this phrase was part of the Roman Catholic liturgy as part of the Easter Introit and read aloud in church each year |
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| Quena | (Spanish f.) also kena, a South American folk instrument from the Andes mountains (Bolivia, Peru), similar to a flute, made out of cane, 25 to 50 cm. long with five or six finger holes and a thumb hole. The player produces a sound by blowing across a sharp notch in the upper rim, It is commonly heard as a solo instrument and in ensembles. Pre-Columbian versions have been found dating back to 900 BC and were made of bone and clay |
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| Quenacho | larger and lower pitched quena |
| Qu'en-dira-t-on | (French m.) gossip |
| Quenelle (s.), Quenelles (pl.) | (English, French f.) an oval-shaped ball of meat or fish reduced to a paste, seasoned and fried |
| que n'es-tu venu me voir? | (French) why didn't you come to see me? |
| quengeln | (German) to whine, to grizzle (baby) |
| Quenilla | a smaller and higher pitched quena |
| Que non! | (French) not at all! certainly not! |
| ¿qué nos deparará el futuro? | (Spanish) what will the future bring? |
| Quenotte | (French f.) (baby talk) tooth |
| Quenouille | (French f.) distaff (a staff for holding flax, tow or wool during spinning) |
| Que oui! | (French) yes indeed! quite so! |
| ¡qué poco agradecido eres! | (Spanish) you're so ungrateful! |
| quer | (German) across, crosswise, diagonally |
| Querbalken | (German m.) (in music) a beam |
| Querceta | (Italian f.) grove of oaks, oak-plantation |
| Querceto | (Italian m.) grove of oaks, oak-plantation |
| Quercia (s.), Querce (pl.) | (Italian f.) oak, oak-tree |
| quercino | (Italian) oaken, oak |
| Quere nach, der | (German) across, crosswise |
| Querela | (Italian f.) legal action, complaint, action (at law) |
| querelare | (Italian f.) to bring a legal action against |
| Querella | (Spanish f., Italian f.) quarrel, dispute |
| Querelante | (Italian m.) plaintiff |
| querelare | (Italian) to bring a legal action again, to prosecute |
| querelarsi | (Italian) to complain, to take legal proceedings |
| Querelle | (French f.) quarrel (dispute) |
| Querelle d'Allemand | (French f.) quarrel over nothing |
| Querelle d'amoureux | (French f.) lover's tiff |
| Querelle de famille | (French f.) family quarrel, family squabble |
| Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes | (French, literally 'quarrel of the ancients and the moderns') a literary and artistic quarrel in France that heated up in the early 1690s and shook the Académie française. It opposed those who believed that writers could do no better than used the ancient writers as models for their works and those who believed that modern scholarship allowed modern man to surpass the ancients |
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| Querelle des Bouffons | see guerre des bouffons |
| quereller | (French) to scold |
| querelleur (m.), querelleuse (f.) | (French) quarrelsome |
| querer | (Spanish) to want, to love, to need |
| querer decir | (Spanish) to mean |
| querfeldein | (German) across country |
| Querflöte | (German f., literally 'the cross-flute') transverse flute, 'cross'-flute, flauta travesera (Spanish f.), flauto traverso (Italian m.), flûte traversière (French f.) |
| quergestreift | (German) horizontally striped |
| Querido | (Spanish m.) darling, lover |
| querido | (Spanish) dear, love |
| Querimonia | (Italian f.) complaint, lament |
| querköpfig | (German) awkward |
| Querlatte | (German f.) crossbar |
| Querleiste | (German f.) fret |
| Quern song | Gaelic working song, sung while grinding grain with a stone or quern to produce min bhrath, min bhrathain, quern meal |
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| Queroseno | (Spanish m.) kerosine |
| Querpfeife | (German f.) small cross-flute, fife, piffaro (Italian m.), piffero (Italian m.), fiffaro (Italian m.), fiffero (Italian m.), fifre (French m.) |
| Querschiff | (German nt.) transept |
| Querschnitt | (German m.) cross-section |
| querschnittsgelähmt | (German) paraplegic |
| Querstand | (German m.) false relation, in harmony |
| Quersteg | (German m.) cross-stay |
| Querstraße | (German f.) side-street |
| Querstrich (s.), Querstriche (pl.) | (German m.) leger lines, ledger lines, cross (in typography) |
| Querubin | (Spanish m.) cherub |
| querulo | (Italian) querulous, complaining |
| Querulous | fretful, habitually complaining, peevish |
| Querverweis | (German m.) cross-reference |
| ques. | abbreviation of 'question' |
| Quesadilla | (Spanish f.) cheesecake |
| ¡que se repita! | (Spanish) encore! |
| Quesito | (Italian m.) question, query, examination question, problem |
| Queso | (Spanish m.) cheese |
| Questa | see questo |
| questa è musica per le mie orecchie | (Italian) that's music to my ears |
| Qu'est-ce que cela peut bien te faire? | (French) What could that possibly matter to you? |
| Qu'est-ce que tu deviens? | (French) What have you been up to? |
| Qu'est-ce que tu racontes (là)? | (French) What on earth are you talking about? What on earth are you saying? |
| Qu'est-ce qu'il raconte? | (French) What's he talking about? |
| Qu'est-ce qu'il y a? | (French) What's wrong? |
| Questeur | (French m.) quaestor (Latin) |
| Questi | (Italian m.) this man, this person |
| Question | (English) query, challenge, interrogatory remark, doubt, an informal reference to a proposal of marriage (as in 'pop the question') |
| (French f.) query, matter, issue |
| questionare | (Italian) to dispute, to quarrel |
| Questionario | (Italian m.) set of questions, questionnaire |
| Question d'actualité | (French f.) topical question |
| Question de confiance | (French f.) vote of confidence |
| Question de temps | (French f.) question of time, matter of time |
| Question de vie ou de mort | (French f.) matter of life or death |
| Question d'heures | (French f.) matter of hours |
| Questione | (Italian f.) question, matter, problem, quarrel (legal), issue, dispute, action at law |
| Question économique | (French f.) economic question |
| Question écrite | (French f.) written question |
| Questionnaire | (English, French f.) a series of questions designed to elicit information from a number of people, especially for statistical purposes |
| Questionnaire à choix multiple | (French f.) multiple choice question paper |
| questionner (sur) | (French) to question (about) |
| Questionneur (m.), Questionneuse (f.) | (French) questioner (person putting a question) |
| Question orale | (French f.) oral question |
| Question piège | (French f.) trick question |
| Question sociale | (French f.) social question |
| Question subsidiaire | (French f.) tiebreaker (a question asked in order to break a tie in a competition) |
| questn. | abbreviation of 'questionnaire' |
| questo (m.), questa (f.), questi (m.pl.), queste (f.pl.) | (Italian) this (s.), these (pl.), this one (s.), these ones (pl.), the latter (s./pl.) |
| questoggi | (Italian) today |
| Quest opera | an opera in which the characters take part in a test or a difficult journey |
| Questore | (Italian m.) chief of police |
| Questua | (Italian f.) begging (for charity), collection of alms |
| questuare | (Italian) to beg, to seek for alms |
| Questura | (Italian f.) police-headquarters |
| Questurino | (Italian m.) policeman, police officer |
| Quête | (French f.) collection (in church), quest (for example, search for the Holy Grail, seeking work, hunt for a place to live), pursuit (of perfection, etc.) |
| ¿qué te apetece desayunar? | (Spanish) what would you like for breakfast? |
| ¿qué te apuestas? | (Spanish) what do you bet? |
| quêter | (French) to collect money, to take the collection, to seek (after), to fish for (compliments, information), to angle for (seek indirectly), to try to win (favour, etc.) |
| quêter pour (les orphelins) | (French) to collect for (orphans) |
| Quêteur (m.), Quêteuse (f.) | (French) collector (in the street, at church) |
| ¡qué tipo más antipático! | (Spanish) what a horrible man! |
| Quetsche | (French f.) a kind of dark-red plum |
| quetschen | (German) to squash, to squeeze, to crush, to mash (food) |
| Quetschung | (German f.) bruise |
| Quetschwunde | (German f.) bruise |
| Queue | (French f.) tail, tail end, bottom, handle, stalk (fruit), stem (flower), rear (train), queue, line (of people) |
| (French f.) abbreviation of piano à queue, a grand piano |
| the tail-piece of stringed instruments such as the violin, violoncello, viol, etc. |
| (French f.) stem or tail (of a note) |
| (German n.) cue |
| Queue d'aronde | (French f.) dovetail |
| Queue de billiard | (French f.) (billiard) cue |
| Queue de cheval | (French f.) ponytail |
| Queue de la note | (French f.) stem (of a note) |
| Queue-de-morue | (French f.) (medium) paintbrush, tails (type of coat), tail coat |
| Queue-de-pie | (French f.) tails (coat), tail coat |
| Queue-de-rat | (French f.) round file |
| queue de vache | (French) reddish-brown (colour of hair) |
| queuter | (French) to go wrong, to backfire (tactics) |
| queuter à un examen | (French) to fail an exam, to flunk an exam |
| qui | (French) who, which, that, whom, whoever, anyone who |
| qui | (Italian) here, hither |
| Quiá | (Spanish) never! surely not! |
| Quica | Brazilian friction drum |
| qui chante juste | (French) on key |
| Quicio | (Spanish m.) frame |
| Quick, Quickly | allegro (Italian), schnell (German), hastig (German), vite (French) |
| Quick Change Four | one of the two-couple figures danced in a circle of four people traditionally associated with square dancing |
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| Quicker | più allegro (Italian), più mosso (Italian), schneller (German), plus vite (French) |
| quicklebendig | (German) very lively |
| Quickset | cuttings or slips of a plant suitable for hedges, a hedge consisting of these plant cuttings or slips |
| Quickstep | a dance popular in the 1920s in duple meter, a version of the foxtrot |
| a fast march |
| Quick-time dances | dances in the Scottish country dance tradition that feature fast tempos, quick movements and a lively feel, namely, reels, hornpipes and jigs |
| quiconque | (French) whoever, anyone |
| Quicunque vult | (Latin, 'whoever wishes') the Athanasian creed (so called from its first words) |
| qui dentro | (Italian) in here, in, inside, within, by |
| Quid nunc | (Latin, 'what now?') a term for a noisy busybody or gossip |
| Quid pro quo | (Latin, 'something for something') a favour for a favour, a fair equivalent |
| Quiebra | (Spanish f.) bankruptcy, break, collapse (figurative) |
| Quiebro | (Spanish m.) dodge |
| quieken | (German) to squeal, to squeak (mouse) |
| quien | (Spanish) who, whom |
| quién | (Spanish) who, whom |
| ¿quién actúa en esa película? | (Spanish) who's in the movie?, who's in the film? |
| quienquiera | (Spanish) whoever |
| ¿quién se anima a decírselo? | (Spanish) who's going to be brave enough to tell him? |
| ¿quién te autorizó? | (Spanish) who gave you permission? |
| quiere aparentar que no le importa | (Spanish) he's trying to make out he's not bothered about it |
| ¿quieres algo de beber? | (Spanish) do you want something to drink, do you want anything to drink? |
| ¿quieres tomar algo? | (Spanish) would you like a drink? would you like something to drink? would you like something to eat? |
| quiero aclarar que ... | (Spanish) I want to make it clear that ... |
| quiero decirte algo | (Spanish) I want to tell you something |
| quiescente | (Italian) quiescent |
| Quiescenza | (Italian f.) quiescence, retirement |
| Qui est à l'appareil? | (French) Who is calling? |
| Quieta non movere | (Latin) let sleeping dogs lie |
| Quietanza | (Italian f.) receipt |
| quietanzare | (Italian) to receipt, to give a receipt for |
| quietare | (Italian) to quiet, to quieten, to soothe, to calm |
| quietarsi | (Italian) to quiet, to quieten down, to become quiet |
| Quiete | (Italian f.) quiet, quietness, calm, stillness, rest, peace |
| quietschen | (German) to squeal, to creak |
| Quiete | (Italian f.) quiet |
| Quietisimo | (Italian m.) Quietism |
| Quietism | a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God |
| Quietly | quieto (Italian), ruhig (German), tranquillement (French) |
| quieto | (Italian) quiet, still, calm, serene, restful, tranquil, peaceful |
| quieto | (Spanish) still, motionless, calm |
| Quietud | (Spanish f.) stillness |
| Quiétude | (French f.) quietude, calm, tranquillity |
| Quietus | (Latin, short for quietus est) a discharge from some office or from a debt |
| the term is also used to mean a release from life (i.e. death) |
| Quignon de pain | (French m.) chunk of break |
| qui intorno | (Italian) hereabout(s) |
| Quijada | (Spanish f.) or quyada (French), jawbone, vibraslap |
| (Spanish f.) mâchoire (anatomical) |
| Quijada (de burro) | (Spanish f.) the dried jawbone of a dead donkey ornamented with bells used as a percussion instrument in Spanish America, especially in Peru. It is struck with the palm for a soft sound or scraped with a stick |
| Quijongo | a single-string bow and gourd resonator from Costa Rica |
| Quilate | (Spanish m.) carat |
| Qu'il dit! | (French) that's his story! that's what he says! so he says! |
| Qu'il entre! | (French) Show him in, Tell him to come in. |
| Quilisma | two or three semicircular loops, never found in isolation, this is one of the very special neumes, sometimes referred to as 'serrated' note. It mainly features in rising melodies, such as the pes or scandicus. It is generally interpreted as a transition note, which means that it has to be performed quickly and smoothly. According to recent findings, though, there is a melodic consequence as well: the quilisma neume mostly appears on semitone intervals |
| Quill | the plectrum of a harpsichord jack that actually plucks the string, traditionally made from the hard stem from a feather, but today more often made from a synthetic material such as nylon (Delrin) or Celcon. On some instruments leather or even metal has been used |
| to fit plectra, for example, to 'quill in Delrin' |
| Quilla | (Spanish f.) keel |
| Quille | (French f.) keel (of a boat), skittle |
| Quills | an alternative name for the 'pan pipes or 'panflute' |
| Quilt canzona | a term used to describe a canzona in which the composer introduces many short contrasting elements so tending to disturb the unity usually found in music of the period. Some composers will ameliorate this tendency by setting the whole work over a basso ostinato or by employing a unifying 'motiv'. Consider Biber's first quintet sonata, for two violins, two violas and cello. This work, conceived as a single concept, is divided into eight segments with little or no pause between them: 2 bars (measures) of allegro in 3/2; 20 bars (measures) of adagio 3/2; 11 bars (measures) of allegro 4/4; 20 bars (measures) of adagio 3/2; 11 1/2 bars (measures) of allegro 4/4; 7 1/2 bars (measures) of adagio 4/4; 18 bars (measures) of grave 6/4; and 8 bars (measures) of adagio 6/4. It is held together by a 'motiv' and a mournfully descending theme which recurs in a different guise with each adagio. This theme appears first in B minor then in D major, next in F# major, and finally in B minor again. The piece ends with a final statement of the three-note 'motiv' sounded over the tierce de Picardie |
| Quilted | a term used to describe an undulating pattern in the grain of some woods, in particular maple |
| a padding technique enclosing a layer of wadding between two pieces of fabric, held in place by sewing a diamond pattern over fabrics |
| Quimera | (Spanish f.) illusion (figurative) |
| Quimica | (Spanish f.) chemistry |
| Quimico | (Spanish m.) chemist |
| quimico | (Spanish) chemical |
| qui mieux est | (French) what's even better |
| Quinario | (Italian m.) a line of five syllables |
| Quincailler, Quincaillière | (French) hardware dealer |
| Quincaillerie | (French f.) hardware, hardware shop |
| Quincalla | (Spanish f.) hardware, trinket |
| Quince | (Spanish m.) fifteen |
| quince | (Spanish) fifteen |
| quince días | (Spanish) fortnight |
| quince días a prueba | (Spanish) two-week trial period, fortnight's trial period |
| Quincena | (Spanish f.) fortnight |
| quincenal | (Spanish) fortnightly |
| quinci | (Italian) hence, from here, on this side |
| quincuagésimo | (Spanish) fiftieth |
| Quincunx | an arrangement of five objects with one at each corner of a rectangle or square and one at the centre |
| quindecim | (Latin) fifteen |
| quindi | (Italian) then, therefore, hence, from here, thence, on that side, afterwards |
| quindicenne | (Italian) fifteen years old |
| Quindicesima | (Italian) or quinta dicesima, a double octave or a 15th, for example a la quindicesima meaning 'at the double octave' |
| an organ stop sounding two octaves above the unison stops |
| Quindicesima alta | (Italian) play two octaves higher than written |
| Quindicesima bassa | (Italian) play two octaves lower than written |
| quindicesimo | (Italian) fifteenth |
| Quindici | (Italian m.) fifteen |
| quindici | (Italian) fifteen |
| Quindicina | (Italian f,) about fifteen, fifteen day's pay, fortnight's wages |
| una quindicina (di giorni) (Italian f.: a fortnight) |
| quindicinale | (Italian) fortnightly |
| quindi innanzi | (Italian) henceforth |
| quindicinale | (Italian) fortnightly |
| qui ne dit mot consent | (French) he who is silent consents, silence implies consent |
| qui n'entend qu'une cloche n'entend qu'un son | (French) one should hear both sides of an argument, hear the other side and believe little |
| Qui ne risque rien n'a rien. | (French) Nothing ventured, nothing gained. |
| Quinientos | (Spanish m.) five hundred |
| quinientos | (Spanish) five hundred |
| Quinino | (Spanish m.) quinine |
| Quinquagenario | (Italian m.) a man of fifty |
| quinquagenario | (Italian) fifty-year-old |
| quinquagesimo | (Italian) fiftieth |
| quinquaginta | (Latin) fifty |
| Quinqué | (Spanish m.) oil-lamp, shrewdness (figurative) |
| Quinquenial | a period of five years, a five-year period |
| Quinquenio | (Spanish m.) quinquenial, five-year (period) |
| quinquennal (m.), quinquennale (f.) | (French) quinquenial, five-year (period, plan) |
| quinquennale | (Italian) quinquenial, five year (period, plan) |
| Quinquennio | (Italian f.) quinquenial, a period of five years |
| Quinquennium (s.), Quinquennia (pl.) | (Latin) a period of five years |
| Quint | (of a bell) the perfect fifth partial (above the prime) of a tuned bell |
| Quint | the interval of a fifth |
| a prefix to the name of some instruments indicating that they sound a fifth above or below the standard instrument, for example, quintfagott |
an organ stop sounding a fifth (or sometimes a fifth plus an octave) above the written note, that is the second overtone, for example, 51/3 ft. to 8ft. pitch
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| the E string of the violin |
| quint. | abbreviation of 'quintuplicate' |
| Quinta (s.), Quinte (Italian pl.) | (Latin) synonymous with Quintus |
| (Spanish f., Italian f., Catalan f.) quint |
| (Spanish f.) villa (house) |
| (Italian f., Spanish f., Portuguese f.) fifth (musical interval), quinte (French), Quinte (German) |
| (Italian f.) fifth class, fifth form, wings (plural form - theatre), flies (plural form - theatre) |
| Quinta aumentada | (Spanish f.) an interval of an augmented fifth |
| Quintabschluss | (German m.) a semi-cadence, a close on the dominant |
| Quinta decima | (Italian f., literally 'a fifth above the tenth') an interval of a fifteenth |
| Quinta del lupo | (Italian f.) wolf fifth |
| Quintadena | in the organ, a flute stop voiced to sound its third partial prominently |
| (Latin) synonymous with Quintatön |
| Quinta dicesima | quindicesima |
| Quinta disminuída | (Spanish f.) an interval of a diminished fifth |
| Quintaeduna | in the organ, a flute stop voiced to sound its third partial prominently |
| Quintaesencia | (Spanish f.) quintessence |
| quintage | (French) overblowing |
| Quinta falsa | (Latin) an interval of a false or diminished fifth |
| Quinta justa | (Spanish f.) an interval of a perfect fifth, quinte juste (French) |
| Quintal | (English, Spanish m.) hundred kilograms (100 kg) |
| Quintal (s.), Quintaux (pl.) | (French m.) quintal (100 kg) |
| Quintal chords | chords built of the interval of a fifth; the fifth does not have to be perfect in quality |
| Quintale | (Italian m.) quintal (= 100 kg) |
| Quintale inglese | (Italian m.) hundredweight (= 112 lb.) (abbreviation cwt.) |
| Quintal harmony | harmony based on the interval of a fifth, rather than thirds or, in quartal harmony, fourths |
| Quinta modi | (Latin, Italian f.) the fifth degree of the scale, the dominant |
| Quinta vacía | (Spanish f.) power chord |
| Quintaton | (French) a manual organ stop of 8 ft. pitch, a stopped diapason of rather small scale that produces a twelfth as well as a fundamental note |
| the same register is found as a pedal stop at 16 ft. and 32 ft. pitch |
| Quintatön | (German) an organ stop of stopped pipes which sound a twelfth with the fundamental tone |
| Quinta toni | (Latin, Italian f.) the fifth degree of the scale, the dominant |
| Quint-bass | an organ pedal stop |
| Quintbassfagott | (German n.) a larger fagott pitched a fifth below the standard instrument |
on the various unusual sizes of Fagott : the Quintfagott is a fifth higher as the bassoon is, so an instrument "in c" with as the lowest note an F. The Quartfagott is, an instrument in b-flat going down to G, a fourth above the bassoon. Confusing can be that also a Quintbassfagott and a Quartbassfagott did exist, a fifth and a fourth lower than the regular bassoon. And then we had the Tenoroon or Octavfagott or Fagottino, one octave above the bassoon, and the Contrafagott one octave below
[information taken from the Contrabass-list 2 Jan 1998 Vol 1 No. 80] |
| Quinte | (German f., French f.) the interval of a fifth, quinta (Italian, Spanish), Quinte (German) |
| (German, French f.) organ stops of various pitches which sound a fifth (or sometimes a fifth plus an octave) higher than the foundation stops |
| (German) the E string on a violin |
| (French f.) the fifth part in a string ensemble, and, by extension, the instrument that would play that part, usually the first viola |
| (Italian f. pl.) wings (sides of a stage), flies (theatre) |
| Quintecento | (Italian, literally 'five hundred', a shortened form of mille quintecento) the sixteenth century in Italian art and literature |
| Quinte de viole | (French f.) the viola |
| Quinte de toux | (French f.) coughing fit |
| Quinte diminuée | (French f.) diminished fifth, flattened fifth |
| Quinte di motto retto | (Italian f. pl.) consecutive fifths |
| quinteggiare | (Italian) overblowing |
| Quinte octaviante | (French f.) octave quint, the twelfth |
| Quinte juste | (French f.) perfect fifth, quinta justa (Spanish) |
| Quintenfolgen | (German) consecutive fifths |
| Quintenparallelen | (German) parallel fifths |
| Quintenzirkel | (German m.) circle of fifths |
| quinter | (French) to sing in fifths |
| Quinterna | or quintere, an obsolete species of guitar, also called chiterna |
| it has been suggested that Agricola used the term quinterna for a guitar a century before Praetorius |
| Quinterne | see quinterna |
| Quinterno | (Italian m.) five sheets (paper), quire (24 or 25 sheets), copy-book |
| Quintes cachées | (French f. pl.) hidden fifths |
| Quintes consécutives | (French f. pl.) consecutive fifths |
| Quintessenza | (Italian f.) quintessence |
| Quintet | quintetto (Italian m.), Quintett (German), quintuor (French m.), quintette (French m.), quinteto (Spanish m.) |
| a work for five independent parts, a body of players who would perform such a work |
| in jazz, any group of five players, usually containing a drum set (pedal bass, snaredrum sometimes brushed, and top hat and brushed cymbals), string bass or electric bass, and groups of one or two of the following instruments, guitar, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet or trombone |
| the standard woodwind quintet consists of one player each on flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn |
| the standard brass quintet has two trumpets, French horn, trombone, and tuba |
| Quinteto | (Spanish m., Portuguese m.) quintet, quintetto (Italian m.), Quintett (German n.), quintette (French), quintuor (French m.) |
| Quinteto con clarinete | (Spanish m.) clarinet quintet, a group made up of one clarinet and four stringed instruments |
| Quinteto de cuerdas | (Spanish m.) string quintet, a group of five stringed instruments |
| Quinteto de metal | (Spanish m.) brass quintet, a group of five brass instruments |
| Quinteto de piano | (Spanish m.) piano quintet, a group of five instruments of which one is a piano |
| Quinteto de vientos | (Italian m.) wind quintet, a group of five wind-instruments |
| Quintett | (German n.) quintet, quintetto (Italian m.), quintette (French m.), quintuor (French m.), quinteto (Spanish m.) |
| Quintette | (French m.) quintet, quintetto (Italian m.), Quintett (German n.), quintuor (French m.), quinteto (Spanish m.) |
| Quintetto | (Italian m.) quintet, Quintett (German n.), quintette (French m.), quintuor (French m.), quinteto (Spanish m.) |
| Quintfagott |
| period | description |
| seventeenth century | (German n.) bassoon sounding a fifth below the standard bassoon, which was also called the Quintbassfagott |
| eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | (German n.) or fagottina, bassoon sounding a fifth above the standard bassoon |
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on the various unusual sizes of Fagott : the Quintfagott is a fifth higher as the bassoon is, so an instrument "in c" with as the lowest note an F. The Quartfagott is, an instrument in b-flat going down to G, a fourth above the bassoon. Confusing can be that also a Quintbassfagott and a Quartbassfagott did exist, a fifth and a fourth lower than the regular bassoon. And then we had the Tenoroon or Octavfagott or Fagottino, one octave above the bassoon, and the Contrafagott one octave below
[information taken from the Contrabass-list 2 Jan 1998 Vol 1 No. 80] |
| Quintfuge | (German f.) a fugue at the fifth |
| Quintgedact | (German) an organ stop of the stopped diapason species sounding the fifth above |
| quintieren | (German) to sing in parallel fifths, to overblow at the fifth |
| Quintilla | (Spanish f.) five-line stanza |
| Quintillo | (Spanish m.) quintolet |
| Quintina | (Italian f.) quintuplet, quintolet (French), cinquillo (Spanish) |
| Quintino | (Italian m.) fifth part of a litre |
| Quinti-tube | an instrument later called the alto-ophicleide, produced in 1817 by the Paris instrument maker Jean-Hilaire Asté (1775-1840) (also known as Halary) |
| Quinto | smallest and highest pitched lead drum of the three tumbadoras used in the rumba styles. Its role is improvisational - it interacts with the vocals and dancers as well as playing solo features |
| (Spanish m., Italian m.) fifth |
| quinto | (Spanish, Italian) fifth |
| quinto (m.), quinta (f.) | (Italian) fifth |
| Quintogenito | (Italian m.) fifth child |
| Quintoier | (French) see quinter |
| Quintoire | (French) an obsolete term for the descant |
| Quintole | (German f.) quintuplet |
| quintolet | (French m.) quintuplet, quintina (Italian), cinquillo (Spanish), quintillo (Spanish) |
| Quinton | a hybrid instrument in use during the eighteenth century, a cross between the violin and the viol, with the body of a violin, but the sloping shoulders of the viol, and bearing five strings tuned, from lowest to highest, g, d', a', d'', g'' |
| Quintoyer | (French) see quinter |
| Quintparallelen | (German pl.) parallel fifths |
| Quintroon | 'quadroon', 'octoroon' and, more rarely, 'quintroon' were historically racial categories of hypodescent used in Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana. The terms were also used in Australia to refer to people of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry. Specifically, a quintroon has one parent who is an octoroon and one white parent |
| Quintsaite | (German f.) treble string (E string) of a violin |
| Quintsextakkord | (German m.) six-five chord (the first inversion of a seventh chord) |
| Quintuor | (French m.) quintet, quintetto (Italian m.), Quintett (German n.), quintette (French m.), quinteto (Spanish m.) |
| Quintuple | a prefix indicating five elements |
| quintuple | (French) fivefold |
| Quintuple meter | or 'quintuple time', the time signatures 5/4 or 5/8, usually grouped as either (3+2) or (2+3) but occasionally with only a single accent on the first beat of the bar |
| quintupler | (French) to increase five-fold |
| Quintuple time | quintuple meter |
| Quintuplet |  |
| five notes played in the time of four (as in the example above) or six, according to the time signature |
| quintuplice | (Italian) five-fold |
| quintus | (Latin) fifth |
| Quintus | (Latin) the fifth voice in a sixteenth-century composition having five or more vocal parts, sometimes a 'descant' or 'countermelody' added above the usual four voices when it is called quinta (pars or vox being understood) |
| a roving part which might be a second soprano, alto, tenor or bass, hence its alternative name vagans |
| Quintus decimus | (Latin, literally 'a fifth above the tenth') the interval of a fifteenth |
Quintviole
| (German) an organ stop of 2 2/3 ft. pitch |
| Quinzaine | (French f.) fortnight |
| Quinze | (French m.) fifteen |
| quinze | (Catalan, French) fifteen |
| Quinze jours | (French m.) fortnight, two weeks |
| Quinzième | (French) the interval of a fifteenth |
| quinzième | (French m.) fifteenth |
| Quiosco | (Spanish m.) bandstand (in a park, etc.), kiosk, summerhouse (in garden) |
| Quiosco de música | (Spanish m.) bandstand (in a park, etc.) |
| qui parle | (French) who talks |
| qui plus est | (French) furthermore |
| Quiproquo | (French m.) misunderstanding |
| Quire | choir, body of singers |
| that part of a church where the choristers sit |
| also called a 'gathering' or 'booklet', a bundle of rectangular parchment sheets, folded and stitched to form a section of a book prior to binding. In manuscripts written after 1400, the quires are often systematically labelled in order to help the bookbinder place them in the correct order. They provide important evidence for the history of specific manuscripts. Missing pages cut out of a quire show modern scholars evidence of ancient censorship, and the markings of the quire can show that books have been rebound or taken apart and "recycled" into new books. A full folio (a simple sheet of parchment or paper), folded in half forms 4 writings surfaces. Each surface is called a page. The folded folio is called a bifolio. One of the halves of the folded folio (bifolio) would be a leaf (which has two surfaces, a front and back, or two pages). When these folded folios are joined we have a "gathering" or a quire |
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| Quiribillos | Colombian bamboo rattle |
| Quirinale | (Italian m.) Quirinal Palace |
| Quirinal Palace | known in Italian as the Palazzo del Quirinale or simply the Quirinale, the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic on the Quirinal Hill, the tallest of the seven hills of Rome |
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| Quirister | a chorister |
| Quironimia | (Spanish f.) chironomy, cheironomy |
| quirúrgico | (Spanish) surgical |
| Quis custodiet (ipsos custodes?) | (Latin) who will control those who are in authority? |
| Qui se marie à la hâte se repent à loisir. | (French) Marry in haste, repent later. |
| Qui se ressemble s'assemble | (French) Birds of a feather flock together |
| Qui se sent morveux, qu'il se mouche. | (French) If the shoe fits, wear it. |
| Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête. | (French) As you sow, so shall you reap. |
| Qui s'excuse s'accuse | (French) he who makes excuses admits responsibility, a guilty conscience needs no accuser |
| quisiera hacer una aclaración | (Spanish) I'd like to make one thing clear |
| Qui si ferma a piacimento | (Italian) if you wish, stop here |
| Quisquilian | worthless, trivial, consisting of trash and rubbish |
| Quisquilla | (Spanish f.) trifle, shrimp |
| Quisquille | (Italian f. pl.) trifles, idle disputes |
| quisquilloso | (Spanish) irritable, fussy |
| Quistione | (Italian f. pl.) synonymous with questione |
| Quitamanchas | (Spanish m.) stain remover |
| quitando | (Spanish) apart from |
| Quitanieves | (Spanish m.) snow plough |
| Quitanza | (Italian f. pl.) synonymous with quietanza |
| quitar | (Spanish) to remove, to take off, to steal |
| quitarse | (Spanish) to be removed, to take off |
| quitarse de | (Spanish) to stop |
| quitarse de en medio | (Spanish) to get out of the way |
| Quitasol | (Spanish m.) sunshade |
| Quitiplás | Venezuelan percussion instrument made from bamboo. Bamboo tubes of various lengths are struck against the ground crating a unique sound that in Spanish sounds like qui-ti-plá |
| Qui tollis | (Latin) a part of the Gloria |
| Quittance | (French f.) receipt |
| Quitte | (German f.) quince |
| quitte | (French) quits |
| quitte à faire | (French) even if it means doing |
| quitte envers | (French) quits with |
| quitter | (French) to quit, to leave |
| quittieren | (German) to receipt, to sign for, to greet with |
| quittiren | (German, archaic spelling) to receipt, to sign for, to greet with |
| quitt sein | (German) be quits |
| Quittung | (German f.) receipt |
| qui va là? | (French) who goes there? who's there? |
| Qui va lentement va sûrement. | (French) More haste less speed. |
| Qui veut la fin veut les moyens. | (French) The end justifies the means. |
| quivi | (Italian) here, there |
| qui vicino | (Italian) near here, near by |
| Qui vive | as in on the qui vive (Latin: keep a sharp look out, be on the alert) |
| Qui vivra verra. | (French) Time will tell, What will be will be. |
| qui vous savez | (French) you-known-who |
| quizá | (Spanish) perhaps |
| quizás | (Spanish) perhaps |
| Quod est | (Latin) which is |
| Quodlibet | (Latin, literally 'what pleases') a word that has two meanings. In philosophy or theology a quodlibet was an exercise in argument or disputation, a scholastic debate, a term in use between about 1377 and 1868. In music, a quodlibet is a fanciful combination of airs, a fantasia, a medley, a Dutch concert, a potpourri, a collection of different tunes or fragments of composition brought together as a joke |
| (French m.) gibe |
| Quod vide (s.), Quae vide (pl.) | (Latin) which see, commonly abbreviated q.v. (s.), or qq.v. (pl.) |
| quoi | (French) what, which |
| Quoi de neuf? | (French) What's new? |
| Quoin | dressed stone at the corner of a building |
| quoique | (French) though, although |
| quoi que | (French) whatever |
| quoi que ce soit | (French) anything |
| Quo jure? | (Latin) by what right?, by what authority? |
| Quolibet | (French m.) gibe |
| Quondam | (Latin) that was formerly, that used to be, at one time, former, late, deceased |
| Quoniam tu solus | part of the Gloria |
| quor. | abbreviation of 'quorum' |
| Quorum | (Latin, 'of whom') a term for the minimum number of members that must be present to constitute a valid meeting |
| Quórum | (Spanish) quorum |
| quot. | abbreviation of 'quotation', 'quote' |
| Quota | (Italian f., from the Latin quota (pars), literally ' how great (a part)') instalment, height, odds, part, share, hill (on a map) |
| quotare | (Italian) to quote (a price), to assess (value) |
| Quotation |
| the distinction between quotation and allusion has long been problematic. Four conditions must be met for a quotation: |
| the pitch pattern corresponds to a preexisting pattern in the musical literature (rhythm does not have to reflect this correspondence) |
| the composer sets this pattern in relief |
| it can be documented that the composer was familiar with the work or passage in question |
| the extramusical context of the composer's work is reflected by that of the quoted work |
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| Quotation music | music that parodies another work or works, presenting them in a new style or guise |
| Quotazione | (Italian f.) quotation |
| Quote | (German f.) proportion |
| Quot homines, tot sententiae | (Latin) every man has his own opinion |
| Quotidian | everyday, commonplace, mundane, ordinary, routine |
| Quotidiano | (Italian m.) daily (paper) |
| quotidiano | (Italian) daily, everyday |
| Quotidien | (French m.) daily (paper) |
| quotidien (m.), quotidienne (f.) | daily, everyday (banal) |
| quotidiennement | (French) daily |
| Quoting | see 'interpolation' |
| Quoto | (Italian m.) quotient |
| Quo vadis? | (Latin) where are you going? |
| Quoziente | (Italian m.) quotient |
| Quoziente d'intelligenza | (Italian m.) intelligence quotient, IQ |
| Qupuz | see kopuz |
| Quyada | (French f.) quijada (Spanish), jawbone, vibraslap |
| Quyi |
| (China) a general name for a variety of spoken and sung arts which dates way back in China's long history. Research has shown that there are 400 forms of quyi that are popular in different parts of China. It became a special art form after undergoing a long period of development and evolution from oral literature and songs: |
| dagu | accompanied sung narrative |
| Suzhou pingtan | a general term denoting Suzhou pinghua and tanci, namely, storytelling and ballad singing in the Suzhou dialect. Flourishing in Suzhou, it also enjoys great popularity in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces as well as in Shanghai, the biggest metropolis in East China |
| paiziqu | sung narrative |
| pingshu | spoken narrative in which performer wore a gown and sat behind a table, with a folded fan and a gavel (serving as a prop to strike the table as a warning to the audience to be quiet or as a means of attracting attention in order to strengthen the effect of the performance, especially at the beginning or during intervals). The performers talk in Putonghua (standard Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect) |
| quinshu | combines singing with speech but without musical accompaniment |
| xiangsheng | spoken comic cross-talk, in which the performer must act, without external direction, according to the structure of the story, and the arrangement of the acts, scenery, and setting in order to portray the feeling, tone, and other nuances of the roles |
| guzici | spoken versified storytelling to the accompaniment of a drum |
| kuaishu | half sung and half spoken to musical accompaniment |
| kuaibanshu | derived from kuaishu, kuaibanshu is half sung and half spoken to musical accompaniment provided by a pair of bamboo clappers |
| luoguhu | half sung and half spoken to musical accompaniment |
| chunluo | half sung and half spoken to musical accompaniment |
| danxian | Beijing danxian, also known as danxianpaiziqu, is accompanied on a stringed instrument and an octagonal drum. The performer sings and plays the drum to please himself or herself as much as to please others. The small drum is covered with snakeskin, with holes on seven sides. Two brass strips are attached to each hole. When the storyteller shakes the drum, the brass strips resound |
| daoqing | chanting folk tales to the accompaniment of simple percussion instruments |
| Fengyang huagu | flower-drum based sung narrative |
| bawangpian | clapper dancing |
| cihua | a type of verse with tonal patterns from folk music |
| guci | from northern China, storytelling accompanied by a stringed instrument |
| haolaibao | also called haolibao, a singing and storytelling form of quyi popular with the Mongolian people, which dates back to the twelfth century. The singers accompany themselves on the sihu, a four-stringed instrument |
| yabugan | from Inner Mongolia, one of the forms of Mongolian quyi known as haolaibao, specifically one in which the singer makes musical sounds with the voice, and then produces words to match a tune. Yabugan is divided into solos and duets, and further into narration, satire, and the singing of praises |
| errenzhuan | a duet form, also known as bengbeng, it originated in the three provinces of Northeast China - Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongiiang. It involves story telling, singing, and dancing between two performers. Its vocal music is based on that of the northeastern folk songs |
| dasitan | a form of quyi popular among the Uygur people in Xinjiang. The chief singer accompanies himself on the rewalu, dutaer, danboer or shadaer (all stringed instruments), while musicians beat the hand drum or stone chimes |
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| QV | referring to the catalogue prepared by Horst Augsbach of music by Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) |
| q.v. | quod vide (Latin: which see - textual cross reference) |
q.v. usually indicates a reference to something elsewhere in the current paper, chapter, book, etc.
cf. would be more appropriate for a reference to a different paper, book, etc. |
| QWERTY | reference to a standard keyboard in English-speaking countries (from the first six of the upper row of keys on a typewriter) |
| qy | abbreviation of 'query' |
| Qyamancha | or kamancha or kemenche, a 4 stringed spiked fiddle. It is played on the knee with a horse-hair bow which is tightened with the hand while playing. The body of in the shape of a parabola |
| Qyteli | a small wooden spoonlike instrument, like the guitar, but with only two strings |
