| 单词 | drone bass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrone bass a. With the sense ‘of, relating to, or resembling a drone of a bagpipe’; (also) designating a bagpipe with a drone (cf. sense 1), as in drone bagpipe, drone bass, drone reed, etc.See also drone pipe n. 1. ΚΠ c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 51 The fyrst hed ane drone bag pipe. c1695 J. Talbot Christ Church Oxf. Music MS 1187 in Galpin Soc. Jrnl. (1952) 5 45 The best way of making Drone reeds is of Elder Shoot in the nature of a Corn reed: they made in two joynts to be short or lengthened. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Falso bordone, a term applied in the early days of descant to such counterpoint as had either a drone bass, or some part constantly moving in the same interval with it. 1879 W. H. Stone in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 123 The drone reeds are only intended to produce a single note, which can be tuned by a slider on the pipe itself. 1943 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 2 80/2 A characteristic pipe tune upon a drone bass in the tonic and dominant, suggesting a drum accompaniment. 2009 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 24 Oct. 12 I confessed that I was a piper,..and Fischer was away, spellbound by the newfangled world of..moisture traps and drone reeds fashioned from carbon fibre. < as lemmas |
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