单词 | diapason |
释义 | diapasonn. a. The interval of an octave; the consonance of the highest and lowest notes of the musical scale.Spoken of by early musicians as ‘a Consonance of eight sounds and seuen Interuals’ (Dowland) in reference to the intermediate notes of the diatonic scale: cf. sense 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > octave diapasona1398 eighth1597 octave1694 ottava1724 septime1764 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxvi. 1365 Acordes in musik haueþ names of nombres..as is [read it] fareþ in diatesseroun, in diapente and in diapasoun, and in oþre consonanciis and acordes. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. i. 72 The fayre dyapente, the swete Dyapason. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xvi. ii The lady excellent, Played on base organs expedient, Accordyng well unto dyopason, Dyapenthe, and eke dyetesseron. 1629 F. Bacon Sylva §183 It discovereth the true Co~incidence of Tones into Diapasons, which is the return of the same Sound. 1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 376 (note) Answering to the unison, the diapente, the diatessaron, and the diapason, the sweetest concords in musick. ΚΠ 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony v. 112 These are the mean Rations comprehended in the Ration of 6 to 2, by which Diapason cum Diapente, or a 12th, is divided into the aforesaid Intervals.] 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Diapasondiapente The Diapason-diapente is a Symphony made when the Voice proceeds from the 1st to the 12th Tone. The Word is properly a Term in the Greek Music: We should now call it a Twelfth. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 134/1 Diapason cum diapente, the interval of a 12th. Diapason cum diatessaron, the interval of an 11th.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > part in harmony or counterpoint > other parts counter-notec1380 organa1382 pricksong1495 counterpoint1530 cant organ?1553 diapason1594 counter-tune1605 contrapart1660 counterpart1706 free part1782 organum1782 sub-bass1839 counter-melody1931 countersubject1947 infra-bass1958 voice1967 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H4 So I at each sad straine, will straine a teare, And with deepe grones the Diapason beare. View more context for this quotation 1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 19 With Winds and Tempests sweep his various Lyre How sweet thy Diapason. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles i. i. 6 The diapason of the Deep. 1844 H. W. Longfellow Arsenal at Springfield vii I hear..in tones of thunder the diapason of the cannonade. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > complete concordancy1586 diapason1591 1591 R. Greene Maidens Dreame xxiii Her sorrows and her tears did well accord; Their diapason was in self-same cord. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. i. ii. iii. 517 A true correspondence, perfect amitie, a Diapason of vowes and wishes..as betwixt David and Ionathan. 1645 J. Milton At Solemn Musick in Poems 23 Their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd In perfect Diapason. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. i. lvi In her there's tun'd a just Diapason. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 343 Contentment..Tunes the Diapazon of our Souls. 3. More or less vaguely extended, with the idea of ‘all the tones or notes’, to: a. The combination of parts or notes in a harmonious whole, properly in concord. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun] > a melody notec1300 warblec1374 moteta1382 tunea1387 measurea1393 modulationa1398 prolation?a1425 gammec1425 proportion?a1505 laya1529 stroke1540 diapason?1553 strain1579 cantus1590 stripe1590 diapase1591 air1597 pawson1606 spirit1608 melody1609 aria1742 refrain1795 toon1901 sounds1955 klangfarbenmelodie1959 ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 496 in Shorter Poems (1967) 38 Fresche ladyis sang..Concordes swete, diuers entoned reportis..Diapason of mony syndry sortis. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 85 In Musicke there are many discords, before there can be framed a Diapason. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 14 Thus are composed seuen tunes; which harmonie they call Diapason, that is to say, the Generalitie, or whole state of consent and concord, which is perfect musicke. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Diapason, a concord in musick of all parts. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. vii. 197 A deep and melodious diapason of musical voices chanting the farewell song. b. A melodious succession of notes, a melody, a strain; now esp. a swelling sound, as of a grand burst of harmony: perhaps in this sense also associated with the organ stop (sense 7). ΚΠ 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H6 When some pleasing Diapason flies From out the belly of a sweet touch'd Lute. 1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 107 A full-mouth Diapason swallowes all. 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. i. x. 148 When all the stops are drawn, and the registers open..we hear that full and complete harmony..which..is what the ancient writers mean to express by the term Diapason. 1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 66 The organ..swells into a diapason full. 1860 C. Sangster Into Silent Land 139 Tune the lyre To diapasons worthy of the theme. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths II. 263 His voice, is rising in its wonderful diapason clearer and clearer. c. The whole range of tones or notes in the scale; the compass of a voice or instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > range or compass compass1597 gamut1639 diapason1687 ambitus?1775 range1796 register1806 scale1818 1687 J. Dryden Song St. Cecilia's Day i From Harmony to Harmony Through all the compass of the Notes it ran, The Diapason closing full in Man. 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. xli Who up the lofty diapason [of an Aeolian harp] roll Such sweet, such sad, such solemn airs divine? 1803 H. K. White To my Lyre in Clifton Grove p. xii No hand, thy diapason o'er, Well skill'd, I throw with sweep sublime. 1806 T. Moore Vis. Philos. 27 To him who traced upon his typic lyre The diapason of man's mingled frame. 4. transferred and figurative. a. A rich, full, deep outburst of sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > resonant sound dunning1440 resounda1460 glass1483 taratantara1553 diapason1589 roll1818 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. K The Diapason of thy threates. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. P3 By your leaue they said vnto him (in a thundring yeoman vshers diapason). 1840 R. H. Barham Ghost in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 95 Full many an aldermanic nose Roll'd its loud diapason after dinner. b. Entire compass, range, reach, scope. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > scope or range of ampleness1509 reach1546 compass1555 zodiac1560 extent1593 range1599 verge1599 extension1604 latitude1605 extendure1610 point-blanka1616 comprisement1640 comprisurea1641 virge1640 tour1699 purview1751 gamut1753 sweep1781 diapason1851 carry1859 1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude viii. 156 In marriage the whole diapason of joy and sorrow is sounded. 1888 Daily News 23 Apr. 6/4 Those who run up to the topmost note of the diapason of dress. 1893 Daily News 9 June 5/8 Not..above the diapason of this Protectionist Chamber of Deputies. 5. A rule or scale employed by makers of musical instruments in tuning. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Diapason, among the Musical Instrument-makers, is a Kind of Rule, or Scale, whereby they adjust the Pipes of their Organs, and cut the Holes of their Flutes... There is a particular Kind of Diapason for Trumpets... There is another for Sack-buts, and Serpets... The Bell-founders have likewise a Diapason, or Scale. 1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 6. A fixed standard of musical pitch; as in French diapason normal. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > fixed standard of pitch absolute pitch1721 pitch1725 diapason1875 1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) x. v. 392 Tuning his whole mind to the given diapason, as a tuner tunes a piano. 1876 tr. Blaserna's Theory Sound iv. 70 An international commission fixed as the normal pitch (usually called the diapason normal) a tuning fork giving 435 vibrations per second. 7. The name of the two principal foundation-stops in an organ, the Open Diapason, and the Closed or Stopped Diapason, so called because they extend through the whole compass of the instrument; also the name of other stops, e.g. Violin Diapason. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > diapason tone stops diapason1519 foundation-stop1846 1519 Organ Specif. Barking in Grove Dict. Music II. 588/1 Diapason, containing length of x foot or more. 1613 in C. Beswick Organs Worcester Cathedral (2004) 2 open diapasons of mettall CC faut, a pipe of 10 foot long. 1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi 12 When the vast Organ's breathing frame Echoes the voice of loud acclaim, And the deep diapason's sound Thunders the vaulted iles around. 1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) ix. 67 Violin Diapason, a..manual stop, with a crisp, pungent tone, very like that of the Gamba. 1880 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 597/1 The second Open Diapason has..stopped pipes and ‘helpers’. 8. attributive. ΚΠ c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 29 In accordis of mesure of diapason prolations. 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. iv. 83 And lastly, throwes His Period in a Diapazon Close. 1851 A. A. Watts Evening ii The echoes of its convent bell..With soft and diapason swell. 1880 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 594/2 The larger open diapason pipes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † diapasonv. Obsolete. 1. To resound sonorously. (intransitive and transitive). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > resound [verb (intransitive)] singc897 shillc1000 warblea1400 resoundc1425 dun1440 reird1508 rolla1522 rerea1525 peal1593 diapason1608 choir1838 alarm1839 to raise (also lift) the roof1845 whang1854 1608 T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece sig. A3 What Diapasons more in Tarquins name Then in a Subiects? 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age iii. sig. G Th' amazed sounds Of martiall thunder (Diapason'd deep). 2. intransitive. To maintain accord with. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)] > maintain accord with diapason1617 1617 G. Wither Fidelia in Juvenilia (1633) 479 In their chime, Their motions Diapason with the time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1398v.1608 |
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