useless trivia: What Word Means: Vain - Imperious?

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- (I) On stringed instruments, this is the placing of the left hand fingers on the strings to shorten the vibrating length and to raise the pitch. The terms double stopping, triple stopping, etc. refer to two or three notes simultaneously being played this way; (2) In horn playing, this is the insertion of the hand into the bell of the instrument to alter the pitch and tone quality of a note.?

(It.) - Dragging.?

- A Scottish dance related to the reel with a slower tempo and characteristic rhythms with four beats to the bar.?

(It.) - Noisy.?

(It.) - Drawn together, close; (1) Indication to quicken pace. (2) In a fugue, the term describes the overlapping of the entries when the subject begins in one voice before the preceding entry has finished. ?