单词 | black sanctus |
释义 | black sanctusn. Now historical and rare. A parody of a hymn; a discord of harsh sounds, esp. one expressing contempt or dislike, typically to an unfaithful spouse. Cf. rough music n. to sing the black sanctus: to lament. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > other types of song roundelaya1475 black sanctus?1533 pastorella1597 orgial1610 balow1613 comic song1718 hunting-song1727 vaudeville1739 apopemptic1753 melologue1820 Orphic1855 wren song1855 air de cour1878 Kunstlied1880 action song1883 come-all-you1887 marching song1894 party song1911 theme song1929 honky-tonker1950 protest song1953 sing-along1959 slow jam1961 talking blues1969 rap1979 ?1533–4 R. Saltwood Compar. bytwene iiij. Byrdes sig. D.jv As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn. 1578 T. Lupton All for Money B iij I will make him sing the blacke sanctus, I holde him a grote. 1582 in Bible (Rheims) 1 Cor. xiv. 23 (note) Singing Psalmes,..one in this language, and another in that, all at once like a blacke saunts, and one often not vnderstood of another. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 128 A great number had rather heare a iarring blacke-sant, then one of their balde Sermons. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F3v The language that they speake, Is the pure barbarous blacksaunt of the Geate. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. xxxvii. 204 An hideous and dissonant kind of singing (like a blacke Santus). a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. C4/2 Lets sing him a blacke Santis. 1632 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age sig. D2v Many a blacke-saint..Haue I sung at his window. 1680 J. Phillips Dr. Oates's Narr. Vindicated ii. 17 Here is a prodigious yelping and bawling, a hideous Black Sanctus of Lyes and Contradictions. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. xxi. 291 Hearken but to the black sanctus which they are singing in the hermitage! 1861 All Year Round 5 14 The surly sinners sing A horrible black santis, so to cheer The work in hand. 1997 D. Bevington in J. Lyly Endymion 147 (note) Black Sanctus, a parodic hymn to Satan in ridicule of the monks. The term was sometimes used of any discord of harsh sounds or profane ditty such as might be used to serenade a faithless wife. 2003 M. Morton Lover's Tongue xviii. 223 The clanging of pots that accompanied this parade of infidelity was known as rough music or the black sanctus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1533 |
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