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单词 pair of monochords
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pair of monochords
a. A musical instrument with several strings and bridges (and often a keyboard) for the production of a combination of sounds; (esp. in early use) a clavichord. Also in plural and as pair of monochords. Now historical.According to S. Sadie in New Grove Dict. Music & Musicians (1984) at that entry, ‘the name monochord was usually retained for multi-string instruments when the strings were tuned in unison or when the instrument was used for the same purposes as a monochord.’
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c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 5583 And Instrumentys..Many moo..Orgnys, cytolys, monacordys.
1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 116 Item, to Johne Hert, for bering a pare of Monicordis of þe Kingis fra Abirdene.
1504 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 463 To the cheild playit on the monocordis.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 758 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 118 The crovde and ye monycordis ye gittyrnis gay.
1579 Edinb. Test. VII. f. 176, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mony-, Mon(n)icord Ane pair of monycordis.
1603 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 398 To instruct..the ȝowthe..to play vpoun all musicall instrumentis speciallie virginallis, monicordis, luit, seister.
1683 Brechin Test. VII. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 76 A pair of monacords estimat to iiij lib.
1764 Pennsylvania Gaz. 5 Jan. 3/1 (advt.) Great Variety of German Flutes, Common Flutes, Hautboys, Clarinets, Welch Harp, Monochords , Mutes or Sardines, Rozin Boxes, [etc.].
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxxiv. 399 The vielle, or monochord, commonly called the hurdy gurdy, has frets which are raised by the action of the fingers on a row of keys.
1878 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 366/2 During the Tudor period, frequent mention is found..of the clavichord, clarichord, and monochord; all three names seeming to be shared by one instrument, and that most probably the true clavichord.
1885 A. J. Hipkins Pianoforte in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 65/2 We attribute the adaptation of the narrow regal keyboard to what was still called the monochord, but was now a complex of monochords over one resonance board, to the latter half of the 14th century.
1976 Early Music 4 473/3 A large upright monochord, made in Trondheim in 1752, that looks rather like a grandfather clock and has four strings.
1986 D. M. Randel New Harvard Dict. Music 506/2 Multistringed monochords..were introduced as well as keyed models, from which the clavichord is descended.
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