单词 | marimba |
释义 | marimban. 1. A kind of deep-toned xylophone, originating in Africa and most commonly consisting of wooden keys on a frame with a tuned resonator beneath each key; a modern orchestral instrument evolved from this.Also used of a similar instrument developed in some South American countries. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > xylophone > marimba ambira1625 marimba1704 Kaffir piano1870 marimbaphone1902 xylorimba1938 1704 tr. G. Merolla Voy. Congo i, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. I. 695/1 The Instrument most in request us'd by the Abundi..is the Marimba; it consists of sixteen Calabashes orderly plac'd along the middle between two side-boards join'd together, or a long frame, hanging about a Man's Neck with a Thong. 1834 W. S. W. Ruschenberger Three Years in Pacific 28 A few negroes of the neighborhood, assembled together to dance the ‘guachambo’, a sort of fandango, to the sound of the ‘marimba’, which claims Africa as the country of its invention. 1868 D. Livingstone 15 June in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. xii. 305 Marimbas and square drums formed the bands. 1875 J. J. Monteiro Angola II. 138 The Marimba is the musical instrument par excellence of the natives of Angola. 1923 A. H. Newbold Bamboo Curtains 27 You and I on a polished floor, And a big marimba band. 1924 S. Sitwell 13th Cæsar 58 Loud is the marimba's note Above these half-salt waves. 1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 119 The visitor of 1933 may think himself lucky if he hears a marimba orchestra discoursing tangos. 1961 Guardian 22 May 5/5 Her company of 75 dancers, singers, and marimba players presented us with authentic reconstructions of the Aztec ritual dances. 1970 J. Blades Percussion Instruments xvi. 425 In Vision of St. Augustine Tippett writes for marimba. 1989 Guitar Player Mar. 40/3 He also seems strongly influenced by the phrasing of traditional marimbas and trumpets. 2018 www.news24.com (S. Afr.) 22 May (accessed 22 May 2018) He did, however, have time to..enjoy a marimba band and other entertainment. 2. Any of various kinds of thumb piano (lamellaphone) originating in Africa and also used in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, consisting of metal strips of varying lengths fastened to a resonator, with one end left free to be plucked by the thumb and forefingers. Cf. marimbula n., mbira n., sansa n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > sansa ambira1625 marimba1856 sansa1864 marimbula1931 likembe1948 mbira1948 thumb piano1952 lamellophone1953 rumba box1953 kalimba1968 1856 T. Ewbank Life in Brazil x. 111 I took the opportunity of examining the popular Marimba... A series of thin steel rods, from ten to fifteen, are fixed on a thin board. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 455/1 Zanze... Known also by the names of mambira, ambira, marimba, [etc.]. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) v. 53 The ‘marimba brett’ is a descendant of the African ‘thumb piano’... It still exists in Haiti, where it is called the ‘malimba’. 1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments II. 617/1 Small marímbulas similar in size to the African mbira are occasionally seen in the outskirts of Havanna and in Matanzas Province. The corresponding Haitian instrument is the marimba. 1988 P. Manuel Pop. Musics Non-Western World (1990) ii. 43 Some groups also incorporated a Cuban-style marimbula (Dominican marimba) as a bass instrument. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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