| 单词 | ledger lines above or below |
| 释义 | > as lemmasledger lines above or below 3. Music. ledger line n. one of the short lines added temporarily above and below the stave to accommodate notes in a passage which cannot be contained by the usual five lines. They are numbered from the stave upward and downward, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. ledger lines above or below. Also ledger space, a space between two ledger lines or between the stave and the 1st ledger line.[The origin of this use is not clear; perhaps the word may be the noun used attributively with allusion to sense A. 2. The common statement that it represents the French léger light, slight, is baseless.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > stave > lines of stave rulec1475 line1602 ledger line1697 society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > stave > spaces in stave spacea1450 ledger space1818 1697 Playford's Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 13) i. 6 And then you add a Line or two to the five Lines as the Song requires, those Lines so added being called Ledger-Lines. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Leg'erline,..a line above or below the five to receive an ascending or descending note. 1793 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 5 125 The ledger or occasional lines, drawn through the heads of the notes. 1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 20 The situation of G in the first ledger space, being higher than any within the stave, that note is called G in alt. 1879 C. J. Evans Let. in Musical Times 1 June 327 A ledger line has never been typographically either lighter in shade or thinner in substance than its accompanying stave lines. < as lemmas |
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