单词 | semibreve |
释义 | semibreven. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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). < n.1591 |
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