Dictionary of Music - Birding America

128 empresséempressé (äN pre sā′) French. A direction to performin a hurried manner, pressing on to the end.ému (ā mY′) French. A direction to performexpressively, with feeling.enchaînez (äN she nā′) French. A direction tocontinue to the next section without pause.encore (French äN kôr′; English än′kôr). 1 Adirection to repeat. 2 An additional piece (eitherrepeating a piece already presented or a wholly newpiece) performed in response to the audience’senthusiastic applause. 3 A request to perform such apiece. (See also BIS.)en dehors (äN də ôr′) French. A direction to performwith emphasis, so as to make a note or passagestand out from the rest.energico (e ner′gē kô) Italian. Also, German,energisch (e ner′gish). A direction to perform in avigorous, decisive manner.energischSee ENERGICO.Enesco (e nes′kô), Georges (zhôrzh),1881–1955. Also, Enescu (e nes′ koo — ). A Rumaniancomposer, violinist, and teacher who lived muchof his life in Paris, and who used the melodies of hishomeland in his most popular works, two RumanianRhapsodies (1901, 1902). His later works, whichinclude the opera Oedipe (“Oedipus”), three pianosonatas, five symphonies, and some fine chambermusic, were less successful but are still played occasionally.ordinary transverse flute (which was sometimescalled German flute).English horn A tenor oboe, pitched a fifth belowthe normal oboe. Like the oboe, it is a double-reedinstrument, and it has the same number of keys andfingering, so that it can be played by any oboist (asin practice it is). The English horn is a transposinginstrument, its music being written a fifth higherthan it sounds. It came into being during the eighteenthcentury and was originally built in a curvedshape. In 1839 a French instrument builder, HenriBrod, made it in the shape used today, that is,straight, about forty inches long, and ending in asmall, bulb-shaped bell. Thus, it is about eightinches longer than the oboe (which has a slightlyflared bell), and a slightly bent crook is required tobring the instrument into a comfortable playingposition. The tone of the English horn is somewhatsofter, darker, and more muted in tone than theoboe’s. Its range is a little more than two octaves,from the E below middle C to the second A abovemiddle C.The English horn is a standard member of thesymphony orchestra, and is also used in chambermusic for wind instruments, as well as a substitutefig. 89 p/u from p. 132EnescuSee ENESCO, GEORGES.The Ger-englisches Horn (eng ′li shes hôrn′).man name for ENGLISH HORN.English descantMEDIEVAL.See DESCANT, def. 2; also underEnglish flute In the eighteenth century, a namefor the RECORDER, used to distinguish it from the