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单词 diabolus in musica
释义

diabolus in musican.

Brit. /dɪˌabəlʊs ɪn ˈmuːziːkə/, /dʌɪˌabələs ɪn ˈm(j)uːzɪkə/, U.S. /daɪˌæbələs ɪn ˈmuzikə/
Forms: 1800s– diabolus in musica, 1900s– diabolos in musica.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin diabolus in musica.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin diabolus in musica the devil in music ( < diabolus devil (see devil n.) + classical Latin in (see in prep.) + mūsica music n.), more fully mi contra fa, est diabolus in musica ‘mi’ against ‘fa’ is the devil in music (1725 in a text from Austria, and thereafter common in German-language contexts), after German Mi contra Fa ist der Teuffel in der Musica (1613); so called as the interval was regarded as unstable and rejected as a consonance by most theorists. Compare slightly earlier diabolus n.In form diabolos in musica with substitution of Hellenistic Greek διάβολος devil (see devil n.) for the first element.
Music.
= tritone n.
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tritone1609
diabolus1838
diabolus in musica1853
1853 H. H. Pierson tr. L. van Beethoven Stud. Thorough-bass ii. iv. 78 It cannot be denied that this ‘diabolus in musica’ (as the old writers termed it) sounds somewhat harsh in two-part harmony.
1882 Musical Times Aug. 452/1 That luckless interval the tritone..has been proscribed, detested, and cursed as the diabolus in musica.
1936 Discovery Apr. 116/1 The ‘tritone’, a 2-note chord with an interval of 6 semi-tones..used to be known as ‘diabolus in musica’.
1971 Tempo No. 97. 23 The intervallic contraction of the original ‘Dominus’ figure..has resulted in a starkly exposed diabolus in musica.
2014 T. Duguid Metrical Psalmody Print & Pract. vi. 132 Ficta was applied to avoid both the harmonic and melodic interval of an augmented fourth (also known as the tritone or diabolus in musica).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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