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ambience|ˈæmbɪəns|
Also ‖ ambiance |ɑ̃biɑ̃s|.
[f. ambient a.: see -ence; cf. F. ambiance.]
Environment, surroundings; atmosphere.
The Fr. form ambiance is used in Art for the arrangement of accessories to support the main effect of a piece.
1889Harper's Mag. Sept. 500/2 The form which we discern in the dreamy ambience is of supreme elegance. 1902W. Watson Ode on Coronation of King Edward VII 5 Slowly in the ambience of this crown Have many crowns been gathered. 1923R. H. Myers Mod. Music iv. 47 No other composer has ever reproduced in music with such complete success the very perfume and ambiance of a literary text. 1944Burlington Mag. June 156/1 But the present picture was never meant to be microscopically dissected thus, for it is..an impression, a single figure in its ambiance, which is vaguely suggested as reflections in a mirror. 1952Ballet Ann. VI. 25 The costumes and sets..have such a suggestion of space that they give the Sadler's Wells stage the ambiance of Covent Garden. 1957London Mag. Jan. 52 For some writers the urban ambience may provide just the kind of stimulus they need. 1961Listener 5 Oct. 527/2 The Zoo provides a colourful ambience for this Administrative Novel [sc. Angus Wilson's ‘Old Men at the Zoo’]. 1965N. & Q. CCX. 15/1 The way in which the poet by the use of the traditional vocabulary gives the impression that he was introducing his heroine into a Germanic ambience.
Add:2. Audio. The acoustic quality of a particular environment, as reproduced in a recording; spec. a sense of some specific or individual atmosphere, esp. an impression of live performance, created or enhanced by recording techniques (such as added reverberation), or by the presence of background noise.
1961G. A. Briggs A to Z in Audio 15 For domestic use a reasonable amount of ambience in most records is desirable to give the listener a sensation of being in the concert hall, but too much blurs the fine detail. 1971Hi-Fi Sound Feb. 71/3 The shape and the furnishing of the listening room, modifying the ambience that is built-in by the recording engineer, can broaden and smudge the stereo image. 1977Gramophone Sept. 512/2 In quadraphony the back speakers make the contribution..of added ambience, to add a subtle extra dimension to the realism of the orchestral image at the front. 1986Electronic Musician Aug. 29/1 How would you like to beef up the sounds you already have by adding a software-controllable dose of ambience or punch? 1993Rolling Stone 14 Oct. 54/2 We were starting to lose trust in the conventional sound of rock and roll.., those big beautiful pristine vocal sounds with all this lush ambience and reverb.
3. = ambient music s.v. *ambient a. 3 c.
1991Vox Sept. 66/3 If we were to talk Brian Eno, The Blue Nile and ambience, the picture would be clearer... This is dance music without the wild agitation. 1995Face Jan. 47/1 Ambience doesn't have its immediate roots in the chill-out rooms of danceterias: its connection to the original vision of Cage and Eno is far more explicit. |