单词 | big band |
释义 | > as lemmasbig band big band n. a large band playing jazz or dance music, esp. swing; frequently attributive, esp. designating the styles of music played by such a band. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of waits1298 consort1587 wait player1610 wind music1650 the fiddles1676 military band1775 German band1819 street band1826 brass band1834 promenade band1836 horn-band1849 pipe band1867 wind-band1876 Hungarian band1882 jazz band1916 jazz orchestra1916 big band1919 road band1922 Schrammel quartet1924 showband1926 spasm band1926 dance-band1927 marching band1930 name band1932 ork1933 silver band1933 sweet band1935 Schrammel orchestra1938 pop band1942 jug band1946 steel band1949 rehearsal band1957 skiffle band1957 ghost band1962 support band1969 support group1969 scratch band1982 1919 Postville (Iowa) Herald 25 July 1/3 The band concert..was a splendid success in every way. The people..enjoyed the splendid three-hour concert by Postville's Big Band. 1926 Melody Maker Feb. 35 [It] gives the lie to those who say that a ‘big band’ is unwieldy. 1941 P. Larkin Let. 23 June in Sel. Lett. (1992) 15 To hear a big band, trained to a hair, swinging is pleasant. 1947 R. de Toledano Frontiers of Jazz xiii. 137 It remains the best big band jazz. 1991 D. Coupland Generation X i. xi. 63 Your best friend sitting in the car, pointedly avoiding you and sulkily listening to big band music. 2006 New Yorker 9 Jan. 12/3 She's the kind of swinging, stentorian-voiced vocalist who, in another era, would have been fronting a big band. < as lemmas |
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