单词 | diabolus |
释义 | diabolusn. Music. Now rare. = diabolus in musica n. Also sometimes used of other musical intervals regarded as disallowed by the rules of harmony. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > fourth > augmented fourth tritone1609 diabolus1838 diabolus in musica1853 1838 Boston Mus. Gaz. 17 Oct. 97/3 The chromatic [movement]..skipped the B and F, the diabolus of old. 1849 Rambler May 70/2 If Mr. K. will turn to p. 205 of his Manual, he will perceive that his system of ‘correct copying’ has introduced this ‘diabolus’ in the equivalent interval of za-mi. 1877 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 256/1 To be sure, the diabolus between the sixth and seventh degrees is to a certain extent unmelodious. 1917 H. A. Dickinson & C. Dickinson Excursions Musical Hist. xiii. 148 Monteverdi..did not hesitate to use freely that augmented fourth, which was the Diabolus in music. 1987 A. VandenBroeck Al-Kemi iii. 69 In the dominant chord, the interval between third and seventh is precisely the flatted fifth, the tritone, the renowned diabolus. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838 |
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