单词 | polyphonist |
释义 | polyphonistn. 1. A person capable of producing a variety of vocal sounds; a mimic, a ventriloquist. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > ventriloquist ventriloquist1656 ventriloquea1680 gastriloquist1785 polyphonist1836 vent1893 1836 Times 2 Mar. 4/1 Mr Love, the Polyphonist. 1863 Times 8 Jan. 1/4 Alexander, the great polyphonist; G. W. Jester, ventriloquist, and other talented artistes. 1903 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 7 Mar. 8/7 (advt.) Thos R. Corwine Imitator and Polyphonist. 2000 S. Connor Dumbstruck xiii. 293 His [sc. William Love's] claim for distinctiveness lay in his designation of himself as a ‘polyphonist’ rather than a ‘ventriloquist’. 2. Music. A polyphonic composer or theorist; a person skilled in counterpoint. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer by type of music fuguist1789 symphonist1789 melodist1826 threnodist1827 instrumentalist1838 melophonist1847 polyphonist1864 musical dramatist1866 operettist1867 tone poet1874 orchestrator1875 French Impressionist1876 monodist1888 romantic1892 neoclassicist1899 orchestralist1899 variationist1900 mensuralist1901 tone-painter1903 impressionist1908 pre-Romantic1918 phrase-maker1924 polytonalist1925 atonalist1929 dodecaphonist1953 serialist1954 twelve-toner1955 miniaturist1962 minimalist1969 tonalist1982 society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > music scholar > [noun] > counterpoint contrapuntist1776 counterpointist1826 polyphonist1864 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Polyphonist..a master of the art of polyphony; a contrapuntist. 1923 Times 11 Oct. 9/2 The Halifax Madrigal Society's Choir, who sang..a group of pieces by the Italian and English polyphonists. 1944 Scrutiny 12 205 They [sc. Gesualdo's phrases] are related not so much to the great polyphonists as to the new technique of Monteverdi. 1993 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 4/1 The great Roman polyphonist Palestrina may have written his double-choir Stabat Mater setting for the Papal choir. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1836 |
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