| 单词 | scotch snap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasScotch snap Scotch snap n. Music a rhythmic pattern consisting of a short note followed by a longer one (esp. a stressed semiquaver followed by an unstressed dotted quaver), characteristic of (but not exclusive to) much Scottish folk music; cf. earlier Scotch catch n., Scots snap n. at Scots adj. and n. Compounds 3.The reference in quot. 1824 is inaccurate: Burney uses Scots snap (cf. quot. 1789 for Scots snap n. at Scots adj. and n. Compounds 3). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > short note followed by long Scots catch1789 Scots snap1789 Scotch snap1824 Scotch catch1842 1824 Harmonicon June 115/1 The ‘Scotch snap’, as Dr. Burney terms it, in the first air, is well contrasted by the smooth and equal note in the second. 1883 J. M. Wood in Grove's Dict. Music III. 437 Scotch Snap or Catch is the name given to the reverse of the ordinary dotted note which has a short note after it—in the snap the short note comes first and is followed by the long one. 1922 Sabbath Recorder 3 Apr. 424/2 In music, we learn to know and relish certain national peculiarities, such as..the Scotch snap—so familiar now in our American ragtime. 2004 M. DeVoto Debussy & Veil of Tonality ii. 62 Sirènes..begins with the fifth contracting to a third in a stylized Scotch snap. < as lemmas |
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