单词 | starting note |
释义 | > as lemmasstarting note starting note n. the note from which a melody starts; also figurative and in extended use.Earliest used with reference to Scottish traditional music, to denote a note that precedes the first accented note of a melody. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > anacrusis starting note1793 1793 R. Burns Let. Apr. (1985) II. 196 That business of many of our tunes wanting at the beging what Fiddlers call, a starting-note, is often a rub to us poor Rhymers. 1793 R. Burns Let. Sept. (2003) II. 245 The old way, & the way to give most effect, is to have no starting note, as the Fiddlers call it, but to burst at once into the pathos. 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 170/2 He adorned his discourses with that melodious tone which some call the Cameronian drawl... Each sentence has a kind of starting note. 1838 W. Dauney Anc. Scotish Melodies App. 326 Taking any of the sounds, d, e, &c. as the starting note, and running through the diatonic scale up to the octave. 1901 Internat. Monthly 4 175 When the organist gives the starting-note, for the subsequent stanza [of a hymn], after a bold progress through several foreign keys, he will find his entire congregation..entering timidly and without vigor. 1967 Crescendo Feb. 12/2 Buy Professor Jacko's ‘Gig-Book For All Occasions’. Gives melody line, chords and starting note for complete evening's gigging. 2011 V. VanSickle Love is Four-letter Word 15 ‘I really like the song.’ Brian winks at me. ‘Me, too... Do you need Nelu to give you a starting note?’ < as lemmas |
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