| 单词 | peregrine tone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasperegrine tone peregrine tone n. [after post-classical Latin tonus peregrinus (1490 or earlier)] rare one of the tones used in Gregorian plainsong in the recitation of Psalm 114 (113 in the Vulgate), and later adapted as an Anglican chant.Sometimes explained as sense A. 4 with reference to the reciting note, which changes (‘wanders’) halfway through: see New Oxf. Compan. Music (1983) at Tonus.extracted from peregrineadj.n.peregrine tone a. In plainsong, any of the nine psalm-tunes (including the peregrine tone), each of which has a particular ‘intonation’ and ‘mediation’ and a number of different ‘endings’; commonly called Gregorian tones: see Gregorian tones at Gregorian adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > chanted > plainchant > tone tone1776 psalm tone1869 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. 358 The essential parts of each of the tones, that is to say, the beginning, the mediation, and the close. 1850 Helmore Psalter Noted Pref. The intonation (beginning), mediation (middle), and cadence (ending) of the Tones. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms Gregorian Tones, a collection of chants compiled by S. Gregory the Great, consisting of eight tones, four of which, called authentic, he is said to have found, to which he added another four, plagal. 1893 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 253 The plainsong to which Psalms were sung was the 2nd Tone. < as lemmas |
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