Dictionary of Music - Birding America

122 editingSchubert wrote écossaises. The source of the nameis not known, since the dance is not Scottish, doesnot resemble an actual Scottish dance, and is not thesame as the SCHOTTISCHE.editing The process of regulating the balance ofthirty-two or so simultaneous tracks of recordedsound into the two or four used for stereophonic orquadrophonic reproduction. In this process, theengineer-producer must choose what instruments toemphasize, where on the stereophonic or quadrophonicfield to place them, and the various soundlevels for each. This combination is called the mix,and developing the proper mix can be very complicated.Editing also includes speeding up or slowingdown a tape (or sometimes running it backward) forspecial effect, introducing electronic devices, deletingmistakes and inserting corrections, and the like.In the hands of a sophisticated editor, the final tapemay sound nothing like what actually was producedin the recording studio.E-flat One of the musical tones (see PITCHNAMES), one half tone below E and one half toneabove D. On the piano, E-flat is identical with D-sharp (see ENHARMONIC for an explanation). Thescales beginning on E-flat are known as E-flat majorand E-flat minor. A composition based on one ofthese scales is said to be in the key of E-flat major orE-flat minor, the key signatures (see KEY SIGNA-TURE) for these keys being three flats and six flats,respectively. (For the location of E-flat on the piano,see KEYBOARD.) —E-flat instrument A transposinginstrument, such as the E-flat clarinet (or clarinetin E-flat), which sounds each note a minor thirdhigher than it is written, or the alto saxophone,which sounds each note a major sixth lower than it iswritten; in each case, the fingering for the writtennote C yields the pitch E-flat.egualmente (e′′gwäl men′te) Italian. A directionto perform evenly, with equal stress on each note.eighth note British, quaver. A note, , equal intime value to (lasting as long as) one-eighth of awhole note. Thus, eight eighth notes equal onewhole note, four eighth notes equal one half note,and two eighth notes equal one quarter note. Wheneighth notes are written in succession, their flags arejoined together into crossbars, called beams: = ̇eighth rest A rest, , indicating a silence lastingthe same length of time as an eighth note.eilend (ī′lənt) German. Also, eilig (ī′liKH). Adirection to perform in a hurried manner.eiligSee EILEND.einfach (īn′ fäKH) German. A direction to performin a simple, unadorned manner.Einleitung (īn′lī too ng ) German. An introductionor prelude.Eisteddfod (ī steth′vod) Welsh. An annual competitivefestival of music, poetry and dance. Seeunder BARD.élargissant (ā lAr zhē säN′) French. A directionto perform more and more slowly and broadly.electric guitarMENTS.See under ELECTRONIC INSTRU-electric organ Another name for electronic organ(see under ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS).electric piano Another name for electronicpiano (see under ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS;PIANO, def. 2).electro-acoustic musicTRONIC MUSIC.Another name for ELEC-electronica A mixture of various kinds of WORLDMUSIC with electronic music generated by SAM-PLING. Developing in the late 1990s, this musicalsynthesis mainly involves music from any of fourregions: Latin America, Africa, India, and the Arabcountries. Principally performing dance music, electronicabands typically mingle programmed elec-