| 单词 | woodwind |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoodwind woodwind n. the wooden wind-instruments in an orchestra collectively (cf. 7e above, and wind n.1 12b; now often made of some other material); also, an individual instrument of this kind. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] woodwind1876 wood1879 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > orchestra > section of orchestra > specific violino terzo1724 brass1876 wind1876 woodwind1876 strings1887 percussion1889 wood1901 timps1934 timpani1977 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 454/2 Wood wind, or Wood wind-band, the flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, and instruments of their nature, in an orchestra. 1901 W. J. Henderson Orchestra 19 Next in importance to the strings is the wood~wind, which is divided into three families—flutes, oboes, and clarinets. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 273 Doublebasses, helpless, gashes in their sides. Woodwinds mooing cows. 1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz ix. 195 Musicians recognize four general classes of instruments in speaking of the orchestra—strings, wood winds, brasses, and the battery of traps. 1967 T. Stoppard Rosencrantz & Guildenstern iii. 83 One of the sailors has pursed his lips against a woodwind. 1978 Early Music 6 333/2 Vivaldi had to rely on Austrian and German makers for the newer woodwinds. < as lemmas |
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