单词 | canto fermo |
释义 | canto fermon. Music. 1. ‘The simple unadorned melody of the ancient hymns and chants of the church’ (Grove); plain-song. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > part in harmony or counterpoint > melody or ground plainsonga1450 ground1592 melody1728 cantilena1740 canto1782 canto fermo1789 air1813 cantus firmus1847 cantus1887 musica plana1940 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > chanted > plainchant plainsong1445 plain singing1537 Gregorian chant1653 plainchant1740 canto fermo1789 Gregoriana1873 vesper music1888 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 261 Making supplication to St. John, in a fragment of simple melody, or Canto fermo. 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 306 [Palestrina's] motet ‘Beatus Laurentius’ is still more completely founded on the canto fermo, since the tune is sung throughout..in the first tenor, while the other four parts are moving in counterpoint above and below it. 2. Hence applied to any simple subject of the same character to which counterpoint is added. ΚΠ 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 147 His Divine Comedy..is, in all senses, genuinely a Song. In the very sound of it there is a canto fermo; it proceeds as by a chaunt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1789 |
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