单词 | to run division |
释义 | > as lemmasto run division a. The execution of a rapid melodic passage, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones; such a passage itself, a florid phrase or piece of melody, a run; esp. as a variation on, or accompaniment to, a theme or ‘plain song’; hence often nearly = descant n. to run division: to execute such a passage or variation; also figurative (cf. descant v.) Obsolete. 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 society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > flourish passagec1570 division1590 flourish1646 variation1730 fioritura1841 floriation1895 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D3 Diuisions framde with such long discords, & not so much as a concord to end withall, argues a bad eare. c1592 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta iv. iv That kiss again! She runs division of my lips. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 206 Ditties..Sung by a faire Queene..With rauishing diuision to her Lute. View more context for this quotation 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 6 He coo'd not run Diuision with more Art Vpon his quaking Instrument. 1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) ii. 88 A Basse-Viol for Divisions must be of a lesse Size. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxxvii. 525 Time will not permit me to run Divisions upon each of the Symptoms. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i Signoras..gargling glib divisions in their outlandish throats. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 21/2 [Music] In the fine chorus..when the line ‘Hark! how the thund'ring giant roars’ occurs, he makes the bases roar in a long division, till they nearly gasp for breath. to run division(s) a. transitive. To sing or play (a tune or sequence of notes). Formerly esp. in to run division(s), †to run descant (frequently figurative: see descant n. 5, 6, and division n. 7). See also to run the gamut at gamut n. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak of or mention > comment on > make varied comments on to run division(s)1740 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 26v He might runne descant at will, and quauer at pleasure vpon this straunge doctrine. 1598 Meane in Spending in T. Tyro Roring Megge sig. F3 That gentlemanly habit beneficence: whose praises no wight can expresse, though hee runne diuision vppon them halfe a yeare together. 1602 T. Fitzherbert Def. Catholyke Cause f. 47 This matter of Squyre (whervpon yow runne all this descant) is a meere fiction. 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. G4 Vpon this instrument, Her fingers haue run quicke diuision. 1634 R. Brathwait Strange Metamorphosis x. sig. C10v She hath no skill at all to compose or set a whit, or to runne descant on a ground. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 274 I might yet run several Divisions upon this Topic. 1806 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (ed. 2) Those soprano performers, whose voices are of a clear, fluted, and shrill tone, and who run divisions with a close and liquid sweetness, are said to warble. 1821 Examiner 300/1 The gentle lady [may] run divisions on roses and myrtle-bowers. 1871 Pennsylvania School Jrnl. May 319/2 He..ran a scale, which rippled beneath his fingers in tangled curves of liquid melody. 1881 H. N. Hudson in Compl. Wks. W. Shakespeare XX. 50 Descant, in music, was used somewhat variously. Here [sc. in Lucrece] it means, apparently, to run variations. 1969 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 12 June 23/4 (advt.) He adjusts to the mood of his audience in the time it takes to run an arpeggio. 1974 Irish University Rev. 4 48 His version..goes beyond Carolan in rhythmic energy, although the Irish is the ground-work on which he ‘runs division’. 2009 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 July c5 Freddie Washington connected a bass line with Mr. Carlock's playing and then ran variations on it. < as lemmas |
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