单词 | instrumentalist |
释义 | instrumentalistn.adj. 1. a. A musician (esp. a professional performer) who plays an instrument, as opposed to a singer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > [noun] player?c1450 sounder1591 instrumentist1609 twire-pipea1625 tweedle-dee1725 tweedle-dum1725 instrumental1798 instrumentalist1814 tudeler1814 1814 Repository of Arts Feb. 69/2 Mozart's music required better singers and instrumentalists than had hitherto been sufficient. 1858 H. Spencer Ess. 1st Ser. i. 23 Uniting the now separate offices of poet, composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. 1871 Athenæum 2 Dec. 727 This body of vocalists and instrumentalists. 1901 Weekly Irish Times 12 Jan. 3/2 An ideal concert orchestra..consisting of 121 instrumentalists against 40 sopranos.., 40 tenors, and 40 basses. 1957 C. P. Brand Italy & Eng. Romantics iii. xii. 179 The majority of Italian singers and instrumentalists were highly respected. 2010 Financial Times 17 Dec. 17/4 This young group of singers and instrumentalists performed with both insight and esprit. b. A composer of instrumental music. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer by type of music fuguist1789 symphonist1789 melodist1826 threnodist1827 instrumentalist1838 melophonist1847 polyphonist1864 musical dramatist1866 operettist1867 tone poet1874 orchestrator1875 French Impressionist1876 monodist1888 romantic1892 neoclassicist1899 orchestralist1899 variationist1900 mensuralist1901 tone-painter1903 impressionist1908 pre-Romantic1918 phrase-maker1924 polytonalist1925 atonalist1929 dodecaphonist1953 serialist1954 twelve-toner1955 miniaturist1962 minimalist1969 tonalist1982 1838 Musical World 23 Feb. 119 His reputation as an instrumentalist was..confirmed by his first symphony. 1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 572/1 The age in which he [sc. Beethoven] lived produced more than one instrumentalist of the highest order. 1963 R. Winston & C. Winston tr. H. E. Jacob F. Mendelssohn & his Times (U.S. ed.) ii. 94 The romantic instrumentalist who..had gone almost further than Beethoven, Weber and Schubert in exploring the potentialities of the instruments. 2001 tr. A. Wendt in W. M. Senner et al. Crit. Reception Beethoven's Compositions II. 196 The great instrumentalist is not at the same time a composer of song. 2. An advocate of the use of instrumental music in public worship. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1856 S. J. Moore Zion's Service of Song 184 To this the instrumentalists reply—..True, for centuries the Church did not employ the organ... That instrumental music, for the improvement of the service of praise, was resumed by the Church..is to be commended. 1884 J. Harper in P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1961/1 An injunction is more than a permission, which is all for which most instrumentalists contend. 1889 Belfast News-Let. 21 June 7/4 The Antipodes in Church and State—Whigs and Tories, instrumentalists and anti-instrumentalists. 1964 W. E. Tucker J. H. Garrison & Disciples of Christ x. 194 The anti-instrumentalists insisted that..the organ was not authorized [by the New Testament]... Instrumentalists replied that the church could not legislate where the New Testament was silent. 3. Philosophy. An advocate or adherent of instrumentalism (instrumentalism n. 2). Also as adj.: of or relating to instrumentalism. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [noun] > utilitarianism > branches of utilitarianism > followers of Benthamite1826 philosophical radical1834 philosophic radical1834 Millite1865 instrumentalist1904 Millian1950 1904 S. F. MacLennan in Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 410 The instrumentalists have made and maintained it [sc. a distinction between the psychological and the metaphysical viewpoints]. 1909 Philos. Rev. 18 397 From the instrumentalist standpoint, the inquiry, What is reality? appears..futile. 1940 B. Russell Inq. into Meaning & Truth viii. 154 There are some schools of philosophy—notably the Hegelians and the instrumentalists—which deny the distinction between data and inferences altogether. 1965 J. D. North Measure of Universe App. 421 It would be misleading to describe the views represented in this book as ‘pragmatist’ or ‘instrumentalist’. 2011 Philos. Sci. 78 1201 The instrumentalist need not deny that we are acquainted with some things by means other than direct personal experience. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1814 |
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