单词 | alternatim |
释义 | alternatimadv.adj. A. adv. 1. In church music: in a style which features two or more singers or groups of singers in turn, or which features the alternation of voices with the organ or other instruments. Cf. alternation n. 1b. ΚΠ 1564 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge iii. f. 51 The Pope first ordeyned, that psalmes shuld be songe in the churche of Rome, alternatim, enterchaungeably, or by course. 1636 P. Heylyn Hist. Sabbath ii. ii. 40 Ignatius Bishop of Antiochia..brought in the use of singing alternatim, course by course, according as it still continues in our publicke Quires, where one side answers to another. 1693 S. Wesley Life our Blessed Lord vii. 252 There being several of the Psalms which seem to have been sung alternatim, between Priests and People. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric & Belles Lettres III. 194 We are expressly told, in the Book of Ezra, that the Levites sung in this manner; ‘Alternatim’, or by course. 1858 W. H. Pinnock Laws & Usages Church & Clergy E. 1214 Any composition performed by the choir antiphonally, i.e. alternatim. 1951 Renaissance News 4 43 Many of these organ settings were performed alternatim with the plainchant sung by the choir. 1983 New Oxf. Compan. Music i. 49/2 Stanzaic genres such as hymns have very often been performed alternatim. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adverb] > alternately in order or position changeablyc1384 alternately1432 alternatim1619 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > other specific arrangements > [adverb] > alternately alternately1432 alternatim1619 Box and Cox1902 1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. D5v The deluge of eternall woe, Which (Sea-like) alternatim, ebbe and flowe. 1671 in P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 241 Dr. Jacomb, Mr. Steel, Mr. Mayo, Mr. Bull, Mr. Pool pray'd & preacht alternatim. 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 740 One with Heads, and another with Reverses, are placed alternatim for a considerable length. B. adj. (attributive). Of church music or its performance: featuring two or more singers or groups of singers in turn, or the alternation of voices with the organ or other instruments. ΚΠ 1942 Musical Q. 28 332 Such compositions have been characterized as ‘alternatim-masses for organ’. 1958 Listener 2 Oct. 540/3 Among the Masses are straightforward polyphonic works..and there are the late Mantuan works intended for alternatim performance. 1972 K. R. Long Music Eng. Church iv. 79 Sheppard, a much later composer who still clung to the old alternatim style and plainsong-based polyphony. 2002 A. Morin Classical Music 690/2 The other nine are alternatim masses, in which polyphony alternates with chant, showing a different side of Palestrina's approach to church music. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.adj.1564 |
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