单词 | segue |
释义 | seguen. Music slang. An uninterrupted transition from one song or melody to another. (Used of both live and pre-recorded music.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > uninterrupted transition segue1937 1937 L. Lewis Radio Dict. in Printers' Ink Monthly May 42/1 Segue, the transition from one musical number to another without break or announcements. 1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xix. 240 We could be doing ‘Limehouse Blues’ way up in tempo, look at the clock, and do a direct segue into the theme. 1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 19/1 The band plays an hour straight, moving fluidly from one number to another; indeed, Parker calls Edwards the ‘King of Segue’. 1980 S. Brett Dead Side of Mike xv. 162 ‘He just does a long sequence of slow, sexy numbers, so they can dance real close... Straight segue.’ ‘What's a segue?’ ‘Record to record, no chat.’ Draft additions March 2017 More generally: a transition from one state or thing to another. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] overchangingc1384 transmutation1398 permutationa1425 transforming1435 resolutiona1450 translating1503 resolvinga1513 conversion1549 transposing1550 conversationa1570 transmuting1579 projection?1583 transmigration1618 version1626 transversion1656 transmogrification1661 converting1711 metamorphosing1730 metastasis1818 turn-over1825 interconversion1865 transnaturation1873 transmorphism1888 segue1945 1945 Hollywood Q. 1 49 Certain techniques are being run to death, especially the device of fading back on a segue to prior scenes. 1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Mar. d1 She got him playing guitar and chromatic harmonica, writing topical comedy segues. 1992 P. Collins Let. to Louise 11 I am more thrilled by a year that begins with the calendar a complete blank, than by the prospect of carefully orchestrated segues from job to job. 2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Apr. (Sports section) 9/4 With its allowance for some sliding but relative quickness, green clay serves as a natural segue from the hardcourt to the red clay circuit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). seguev. Music. intransitive. 1. (See quot. 1959.) ΚΠ 1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 214 Segue, it follows, or comes after; this word is often found before aria, alleluja, amen. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Introd. p. xxxii The Italian word Segue, set against any of these abbreviations, signifies a repetition of the same notes, or passage. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 390/1 Segue (It.), follows, succeeds, comes after; as, segue il coro, the chorus follows; segue l'aria, the aria follows. 1959 Collins Mus. Encycl. 592/2 Segue,..‘Follows’. Used as a direction (1) to proceed to the following movement without a break, and (2) to continue a formula which has been indicated, such as arpeggiating of chords or doubling in octaves. 2. slang. Of a person or music: to move without interruption from one song or melody to another. Frequently const. into. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique descanta1450 to stay on1579 to run division1590 divide1609 shake1611 flourish1766 tweedle-dee1837 slide1864 Wagnerize1866 to break a chord1879 magadize1904 scoop1927 segue1958 rap1979 rhyme1979 scratch1982 1958 D. Halperin in P. Gammond Decca Bk. of Jazz xx. 250 Then, without stopping, the guitarist and Ellington segued into Body and soul. 1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed iii. 26 The Haydn selection reached the oboe part—melody segued and started to build. 1967 A. Arent Gravedigger's Funeral (1968) xii. 190 Just then the orchestra segued into something I recognised. 1970 New Yorker 12 Sept. 32/2 The first started off with some flourishes from a Bach organ toccata and segued into ‘She Comes in Colors’. 1976 C. Larson Muir's Blood (1978) xxv. 135 The organist..segued resonantly from ‘In the Garden’ to ‘Rock of Ages’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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