单词 | quadrupla |
释义 | † quadruplan.adj. Obsolete. A. n. Music. A tempo or time signature having four crotchets or quavers in a bar; = quadruple time n. at quadruple n., adj., and adv. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > tempo > [noun] > specific tempo quadruplaa1450 measure time1626 quick time1712 tempo giusto1724 tempo rubato1724 tittuping1780 rubato1855 double time1877 strict tempo1936 half-time1938 tranquillo1980 a1450 Musical Treat. in Speculum (1935) 10 265 (MED) It is quadrupla, as 4 to 1, 8 to 2, 12 to 3, & so forþe qvindupla, sexdupla, sepdupla, ocdupla, & so vpward endlesli. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 31 Quadrupla is a proportion deminishing [sic] the value of the notes to the quarter of that which they were before, & it is perceiued in singing, when a number is set before the song, comprehending another foure times. 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus ii. xiii. 64 The Quadrupla [L. Quadrupla] is the third kind of the Multiplex, and is, when a greater number doth comprehend a lesse in it selfe four times, as 8 to 2 12 to 3. But Musically, when 4. Notes are founded to one: the signes of it are these {⁴₁ ⁸₂}..[etc.]. B. adj. Mathematics. Four times as many or as much; quadruple. ΚΠ 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Biv If it containe it .4. tymes, then is it [sc. the proportion] quadrupla, or quadruple. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 127v If the antecedent contayne the consequent iustly twice, it is called dupla proportion... If 4. tymes quadrupla as 12. to 3. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < |
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