| 单词 | half stop |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf stop half stop n. Music an organ stop containing only a partial run of notes. Π 1688 W. Carr Remarks Govt. Germanie 27 An Organ with sets of Pipes that counterfit a Corus of Voyces, it hath 52 whole stops besides halfe stops, & hath 2 rowes of Keyes for the feet, and three rowes of Keyes for the Hands. 1773 C. Burney Present State Music in Germany I. 75 It is a half stop, which goes no higher than the middle C. 1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. xx. 146 A stop is a set of pipes that run in order from the one end to the other of the clavier. If this set..discontinues at any portion of the keyboard, it is said to be a half stop. 2012 J. R. Shannon Evol. of Organ Music in 17th Cent. 120 The first [organ] is a small instrument of six full and two half stops built in Valladolid in north-central Spain in 1610. < as lemmas |
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