单词 | planxty |
释义 | planxtyn. Irish English. A lively tune in triplets for harp, fiddle, flute, etc., which is slower than the jig; a dance to this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > music on strings > harp tune planxty1724 1724 Coll. Celebrated Irish Tunes (1986) 21 (title of song) Planksty. 1763 ‘Euphrosyne’ Chaplet of Chearfulness 78 Song 86. Sung by Pan. Tune: Planxty Johnson. 1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland xliv. 451 I have heard divers others of his tunes called Planxties, which are in the convivial strain, and evidently calculated to inspire good humour... They go by the names of those gentlemen, for whose entertainments they were composed, as Planxty-Connor, Planxty-Johnston, Planxty-Jones, &c. 1790 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday (1794) 6 I'd make him chaunt a solemn drimmundub Or jocund plangstee, pæan or quaint air. 1807 Edinb. Rev. 10 47 He..leaves at every hospitable mansion..a planxty, celebrating the virtues, charms, or high descent of the hostess. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xix Dick Dawson was whistling a planxty and eyeing his man. 1855 G. Petrie Anc. Music Irel. 13 Of the Planxty and the Pleraca..the difference seems to me to be only in names which are convertible... In a collection of Irish tunes, chiefly of Carolan's composition, published..in 1810, the term Planxty [is] given as the English name, and Pleraca as the Irish one of the same tune... The tunes called Planxties, as well as those called Pleracas, owe their origin, if not, as I believe, their names to Carolan [died 1738]. 1904 Daily Chron. 17 Mar. All last night they danced in Caxton Hall..—slip jigs, reels, and planxties, and never a foreign dance among them! 1975 Irish Times 30 May 10/5 His well-recounted ‘earliest and tenderest attachment’ for Bridget Cruise of Nobber, Meath—inspirer of one of his first planxties. 2003 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 30 Nov. On box, accordion and concertina, Jack Doyle, Maura Begley and Eugene O'Connor played polkas and planxties for the enchanted few. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1724 |
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