| 单词 | bass saxophone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbass saxophone 1. A brass wind-instrument with a clarinet mouthpiece, invented about 1840 by Adolphe Sax. Also preceded by qualifying adjective (or quasi-adjective), as soprano saxophone, alto saxophone (see alto n.2 and adj. Compounds 2), tenor saxophone (see tenor adj.), baritone saxophone, and bass saxophone, in descending order of pitch. (The instrument is widely used in modern dance and jazz bands.) Cf. sax n.2 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > saxophone saxophone1851 sax1923 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1259/1 Sax, Adolphe & Co., Paris... Saxophone, and complete set of instruments for military bands, invented by the exhibitor. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 708/2 Adolphe Sax, a Belgian established in Paris, who invented the family of saxophones. 1927 Melody Maker Aug. 767/1 Then Mr. Billy Childs proved his excessive lung power by the force he put into blowing the soprano saxophone. 1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz ii. 57 The other saxophones in common use in the band are the tenor, baritone, soprano and bass. 1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) VII. 434/2 Occasionally in the years just before 1917 the tenor saxophone did supplement the trombone and the soprano the clarinet, particularly in the rather larger and more highly organized bands on the Mississippi river boats. 1969 Punch 12 Feb. 245/3 A vaguely modal thrash headed by Lynn Dobson on flute and soprano saxophone. 1977 Listener 17 Feb. 215/3 Modern tenor-saxophone playing. < as lemmas |
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