单词 | whole shift |
释义 | > as lemmaswhole shift whole shift n. Music (now historical and rare) a movement of the fingers down the fingerboard of a stringed instrument (esp. a violin), so that the index finger is in the position of the third finger in the ordinary (or first) position (see shift n. 15a); now usually called third position; cf. half-shift n. at half adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ c1765 tr. C. Tessarini Accurate Method to attain Art of playing Violin ii. 8 Scale for the Violin upon the half and whole Shifts. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXII. at Shift The first, or whole shift, is placing the first finger where the third was. 1906 Musical Times 47 666/2 After this, advance the hand on the finger-board to the whole-shift. 1972 S. M. Nelson Violin & Viola v. 106 Both he [sc. Geminiani] and Mozart advocate the use of second position (called the half-shift; third position was the whole shift). < as lemmas |
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