† a ren.¹

/ˈɑːreɪ/

Forms: Also are.

Etymology: A, one of the notes of the gamut + re, the second note of each hexachord.

Music. Obsolete.

In Guido d'Arezzo's arrangement of the musical scale, the name of the note A in those hexachords (the 1st, 4th, and 7th), in which it coincided with the second lowest note, sung to the syllable re. In the collective gamut, A re was, distinctively, A of the first hexachord (i.e. the note A on the lowest or first space of the modern bass staff), the lowest note but one of Guido's whole scale; A of the octave, which was la of the 2nd hexachord, and mi of the 3rd, as well as re of the 4th, being distinguished as A la-mi-re. (See Grove, Dict. Music I. 734.) Cf. gamut n.

ΚΠ

c1450 Burlesque in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 83 Every clarke..seythe that are gothe befor bemy.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. i. 72 Are, to plead Hortensio's passion.

1705 T. Salmon in Philos. Trans. 1705–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2080 An Octave, from Are to Alamire.

1761 F. H. E. Stiles in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 699 Our natural scale, beginning with Are, and ending with Alamire.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	a re
释义	† a ren.¹ /ˈɑːreɪ/ Forms: Also are. Etymology: A, one of the notes of the gamut + re, the second note of each hexachord. Music. Obsolete. In Guido d'Arezzo's arrangement of the musical scale, the name of the note A in those hexachords (the 1st, 4th, and 7th), in which it coincided with the second lowest note, sung to the syllable re. In the collective gamut, A re was, distinctively, A of the first hexachord (i.e. the note A on the lowest or first space of the modern bass staff), the lowest note but one of Guido's whole scale; A of the octave, which was la of the 2nd hexachord, and mi of the 3rd, as well as re of the 4th, being distinguished as A la-mi-re. (See Grove, Dict. Music I. 734.) Cf. gamut n. ΚΠ c1450 Burlesque in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 83 Every clarke..seythe that are gothe befor bemy. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. i. 72 Are, to plead Hortensio's passion. View more context for this quotation 1705 T. Salmon in Philos. Trans. 1705–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2080 An Octave, from Are to Alamire. 1761 F. H. E. Stiles in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 699 Our natural scale, beginning with Are, and ending with Alamire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.¹c1450
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