释义 |
‖ sempre, adv. Mus.|ˈsempre| [It.] Always, still: used to qualify an adj. or advb. Also transf.
1801Busby Dict. Mus. s.v., Sempre, (Ital.), always, or throughout: as sempre piano, soft throughout. 1816in G. Thomson Sel. Collection Irish Melodies 139 Judy Lovely Matchless Creature Sempre dolce. 1883Grove Dict. Mus. III. 461/2 Sempre, ‘always’; a word used in conjunction with some other mark of time or expression to signify that such mark is to remain in force until a new direction appears. 1959Collins' Mus. Encycl. 594/1 Sempre, ‘always, still’, as in sempre piano, still softly. 1959E. Pound Thrones xcvii. 29 Earth under Fortuna, each sphere hath its Lord, with ever-shifting change, sempre biasmata. |