| 单词 | b, d, e, etc flat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasB, D, E, etc. flat b. Music. Of a note or singer: Relatively low in pitch; below the regular or true pitch. B, D, E, etc. flat: a semitone lower than B, D, E, etc. Of an interval or scale: = minor adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adjective] > low > relatively low flat1597 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [adjective] > minor flat1597 lesser1610 minor1653 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [adjective] > tonality > minor key flat1597 minore1740 minor1772 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 3 ♭..signifying the halfe note and flatt singing. 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 15 To sing fa in a flat Scale. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. ii. 94 Now you are too flat; And marre the concord, with too harsh a descant. View more context for this quotation a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 144 Like Arions Harpe, Now delicately flat, now sweetly sharp. 1655 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick i. 44 A flat third lower than your third [sc. string] will then bee C Fa ut. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) The B-Cliff..being only to shew when Notes are to be sung flat. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 204 Cartilages and Muscles, to contract or dilate it [sc. the windpipe] as we would have our Voice Flat or Sharp. 1774 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 270 The flat third is plaintive. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure iii. 46 For the sixth time, he hears C flat instead of C sharp played. 1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Harmony (ed. 2) v. 67 All the fifths in tuning keyed instruments, are tuned a little flatter than perfection. < as lemmas |
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