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单词 semibreve
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semibreven.

Brit. /ˈsɛmɪbriːv/, U.S. /ˈsɛmiˌbriv/, /ˈsɛˌmaɪˌbriv/
Forms: Also α. 1500s–1600s semibriefe, semibreefe, 1600s–1800s semibrief. β. 1500s sembreefe, 1500s–1600s sembriefe, 1600s sembrief, sembreefe, sembreve.
Etymology: < semi- prefix 2a(c) + breve n. 2, brief n.1 8, after obsolete French semibreve (14th cent.) or modern Latin sēmibrevis.
Music.
a. A note having half (†in the greater prolation, one third) the length of a breve: in modern music the longest note in ordinary use. (Its figure is now an open oval ?.)
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [noun] > semi-breve
semibreve1591
master note1636
measure note1636
α.
1594 R. Barnfield Shepheard Content iii. sig. Eij No Briefes nor Semi-Briefes are in my Songs.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. x. xxix. 286 [The nightingale] one while, full or her largs, longs, briefes, semibriefes, and minims; another while in her crotchets, quavers, semiquavers, and double semiquavers.
1696 W. Derham Artific. Clock-maker ii. 49 The first note in the 100th Psalm, is a Semibrief.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i The signors and signoras..sliding their smooth semibreves, and gargling glib divisions.
1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xxxiv. 290 He pretended to score down an air as the poet played it, but put down crotchets and semi-breves at random.
1883 W. S. Rockstro in Grove's Dict. Music III. 459/2 Until the beginning of the 17th century, the Semibreve represented one third of a Perfect Breve, and the half of an Imperfect one.
β. 1591 J. Farmer Diuers Waies Playnsong sig. Bi 2. parts in one in the fourth, a sembriefe after the other.1602 T. Campion Obseruations Art Eng. Poesie sig. A5 In Musick we do not say a straine of so many notes, but so many sem'briefes (though sometimes there are no more notes then sem'briefes).1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. A2v I spend my breath to thee, and thou answerest me..an houre after in a sembreue.a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 48 If there stood a Minim or Sembrief in the upper part, there stood another against it in the lower and inner parts.1678–1706 in E. Phillips New World of Words
b. The ‘space’ of a semibreve.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant
hand-whileOE
prinkOE
start-while?c1225
twinkling1303
rese?c1335
prick1340
momenta1382
pointa1382
minutea1393
instant1398
braida1400
siquarea1400
twink14..
whip?c1450
movement1490
punct1513
pissing whilea1556
trice1579
turning of a hand1579
wink1585
twinklec1592
semiquaver1602
punto1616
punctilio of time1620
punctum1620
breathing1625
instance1631
tantillation1651
rapc1700
crack1725
turning of a straw1755
pig's whisper1780
jiffy1785
less than no time1788
jiff1797
blinka1813
gliffy1820
handclap1822
glimpsea1824
eyewink1836
thought1836
eye-blink1838
semibreve1845
pop1847
two shakes of a lamb's taila1855
pig's whistle1859
time point1867
New York minute1870
tick1879
mo?1896
second1897
styme1897
split-second1912
split minute1931
no-time1942
sec.1956
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xvii. 159 Great red coals roll out, sparkle a semibrief,..and then fall away into brown ashes.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as semibreve rest.
ΚΠ
1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 88 A perfect Mood is inwardly noted by a rest of 3. times. A perfect time by 2. Semibreefe Rests, placed with a Semibreefe.
1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 70 (note) A Semibreve Rest forms..a whole bar's rest in any time, or measure.
C2.
semibreve time n. Obsolete (a) common time with two beats in a bar; (b) the time occupied by a semibreve.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [noun] > semi-breve > time occupied by
semibreve time1591
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms
triplac1550
semibreve time1591
common measure1597
common time1597
nonupla1597
triple1597
binary measure1609
triple time1654
treble time1686
ternary measure or time1728
alla breve1731
ribattuta1740
four-four time1826
compound time1848
dotted rhythm1872
six-eight tempo1873
six-four1873
six-eight time1884
six-four time1884
six-two time1884
twelve-eight1884
slow drag1901
two-rhythm1901
three-four1902
sprung rhythm1944
songo1978
one-drop1979
1591 J. Farmer Diuers Waies C iij The plainsong beneath beginning at the end, & so forward sembreefe time.
1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. A8v All his talke's of crotchets, and of quauers, His very words to sembriefe time doe fall.
1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick vii. 17 The Duple or Sembrief Time, and this Mood is..usuall in Songs, Fantasies, Pavins and Almans, and the like.
1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 79 His Life was but a Minum, till his prime, When as old Age should last out Sembrief-time.
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Sembrief, a slow time in Musick.

Derivatives

ˈsemibreved adj. Obsolete punctuated as with semibreve rests.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [adjective] > interrupted at intervals
intercisec1430
semibreved1631
intervaled1659
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xxiii. 189 He fetcheth a deepe sigh, semi-brev'd in these words.
1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 33 Their discourse is semi-breu'd with sighes, their talke with teares.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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