单词 | chamber singer |
释义 | > as lemmaschamber singer C3. attributive. Music. Forming compounds with the sense ‘of or relating to chamber music; that performs chamber music’, as chamber band, chamber singer, chamber sonata, etc. Cf. chamber music n.Some of the more established compounds of this type are entered separately at Compounds 4. [In chamber sonata after Italian sonata da camera (1667 or earlier). With chamber singer, compare German Kammersängerin female singer who performs chamber music (1767), Kammersänger male singer who performs chamber music (1817).] ΚΠ 1757 Apollo's Cabinet I. 237/2 Thus Sonata da Camera, is Chamber Sonatas. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. vii. 535 His chamber duets are the most celebrated of his works. 1829 Harlequin 13 June 35 After the play, a young lady, a pretty chamber singer, warbled Bishop's ‘Lo, here the gentle lark’. 1881 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 1 Dec. 5/3 Some of his works were given by a select chamber band. 1966 Times 29 Dec. 10/2 [He] planned to make Philomusica more of a ‘small orchestra’, with perhaps 40 members, than a ‘chamber band’ with 14 or so players. 1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Sept. nj 19 The chamber singers will offer Italian and English Madrigals. 2004 G. J. Buelow Hist. Baroque Music 298 The fifteen Latin motets..are beautiful chamber compositions written for modest resources. < as lemmas |
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