| 单词 | whole note |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhole note whole note n. Music †(a) [compare Latin and French parallels cited at whole tone n.] = whole tone n.; cf. half note n. 1a (obsolete); (b) [compare French note entiere (1681 or earlier)] a semibreve, as the longest note in ordinary use (now U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > tone whole note1574 second1597 tone1609 whole tone1636 note1762 deuce1829 1574 F. Kinwelmersh tr. A. Le Roy Briefe Instr. Musicke Lute f. 6 A marke, betokenyng a whole note vpon euery stryng opon. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶v A whole note is that which the Latines call integer tonus, and is that distance which is betwixt any two notes, except mi & fa. 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 250 The Difference of [a Fourth and Fifth] they agreed to call a Tone; which we now call a Whole note. 1773 C. Burney Present State Music in Germany I. 75 There has been a contrivance in this organ for transposing half a note, a whole note, or a flat third, higher. 1834 L. Mason Man. Boston Acad. Mus. 46 If eight notes are sung to one beat, thirty-two will occur to one whole note. These are called thirty seconds, [demisemiquavers]. 1860 W. Woodman Singing at Sight made Easy x. 332 A Major Seventh, containing five whole notes and a semitone, or eleven semitones. 1973 T. Karp Dict. Music 266/1 Around 1250 a diamond-shaped note was used for a third, still smaller value, called a semibreve (the equivalent of a modern whole note). 2012 J. Magee Irving Berlin's Amer. Musical Theatre iv. 126 The refrain opens, too, with a clear case of ‘eye music’—in the score, the melody's whole notes look like pearls. < as lemmas |
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