monochordn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmɒnə(ʊ)kɔːd/, U.S.

/ˈmɑnəˌkɔrd/

Forms: late Middle English monycord, late Middle English–1500s monacord, late Middle English–1500s monacorde, late Middle English–1500s monocorde, 1600s– monochord; Scottish pre-1700 monacord, pre-1700 monicord, pre-1700 monnicord, pre-1700 monocord, pre-1700 monycord.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French monacorde, monocorde.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman monacorde and Middle French monocorde, monacorde musical instrument with one string, clavicord (12th cent. in Old French; French monocorde ) < post-classical Latin monochordon (5th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek μονόχορδον , use as noun of neuter of μονόχορδος having a single string ( > post-classical Latin monochordos , ?5th cent., rare) < ancient Greek μονο- mono- comb. form + χορδή string (see chord n.¹). Compare Italian monocordo musical instrument with a single string (1528; 14th cent. as monacordo , 1598 in Florio glossed ‘an instrument having manie strings of one sound’), Spanish monocordio (1609 as monacordio ), Catalan monacort (15th cent.). Compare manichord n., manicordium n.

A. n.

a. A musical instrument consisting of a soundboard with a single string and often a movable bridge, originally used esp. to teach the intervals of plainsong, now used chiefly for mathematical determination of musical intervals.

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monochorda1450

tympan?a1475

rebab1671

ravanastron1788

vihuela1832

sarinda1851

sarod1867

arpeggione1879

quinton1889

surbahar1896

dilruba1921

esraj1921

spike-fiddle1940

a1450 Musical Treat. in Speculum (1935) 10 269 (MED) Þu shalt fynde more pleynli in þe makyng of þe monacorde þat is callid þe jnstrument of plain-song.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 211 As hit may be schewed in the monocorde [L. monochordo], when the wire extendede on a holowe body is distreynede diametrally.

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus i. ix. 23 The Monochord was chiefly inuented..to be iudge of Musical voices and interuals: as also to try whether the song be true or false.., to shew haire-braind false Musitians their errors, and the way of attaining the truth. Lastly, that children which desire to learne Musicke, may haue an easie meanes to it.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. vii. 72 His mother-tongue was like the dull musick of a monochord, which by study he turns into the harmony of severall instruments.

1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony iv. 65 These Rations are more certainly found upon the Measures of a Monochord.

1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 141 Monochord, a musical instrument, wherewith to try the variety and proportion of musical sounds.

1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 78 The method Guido pursued in teaching boys to sing, was by making them practise with the monochord.

1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. i. iv. iv. 312 The monochord is a complete and perfect tonometer.

1863 Sci. Amer. 10 Oct. 236/1 This invention consists in the attachment of a monochord directly to the sound-board of the instrument [sc. a piano]..without the necessity of constructing the monochord with a separate sounding apparatus of its own.

1881 J. Broadhouse Student's Helmholtz 101 Thompson's monochord is a method of demonstrating the pitch by adding different weights to a stretched string.

1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 953/1 Tromba Marina, a performing variety of the scientific monochord.

1974 Speculum 49 402 The pupil learning the monochord..said that it was ‘a wonderful master who..knows nothing himself’. The computer is our modern monochord.

1994 Observer 13 Mar. 10/3 A one-string monochord, used for teaching music theory, was taken from a medieval manuscript.

b. Any of various other single-stringed musical instruments, either plucked or played with a bow, usually belonging to the folk tradition of a particular country or people.

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monochord1740

1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 144 Monochord is used for any musical instrument consisting only of one string;..in this sense the Trumpet marine may properly be called a Monochord.

1787 tr. C.-F. Volney Trav. Syria & Egypt II. xx. 261 They are strangers..to any other accompaniment than the unison, and the continued base of the Monochord.

1877 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 161/2 The Basuto Kafir monochord (tumo) is a bow about five feet in length, and at its middle..passes through a calabash which is held against the chest of the performer.

1904 H. Balfour in N. Annandale & H. C. Robinson Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropol. 16 This form of monochord is common among Malay children.

1943 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Dec. 31/2 For bass accompaniment a monochord can be fashioned out of a large can, a long piece of wood,..and one piece of wire for the single string.

1988 Jrnl. Baltic Stud. 19 359 A controversial question in Latvian and Estonian ethnomusicology is the provenance and age of the bowed monochord.

1999 Independent 18 June (Friday Review section) 17/2 When he was 13..he [sc. Ali Farka Touré] was walking along playing his monochord (a traditional one-stringed guitar) at 2am.

a. A musical instrument with several strings and bridges (and often a keyboard) for the production of a combination of sounds; (esp. in early use) a clavichord. Also in plural and as pair of monochords. Now historical.According to S. Sadie in New Grove Dict. Music & Musicians (1984) at that entry, ‘the name monochord was usually retained for multi-string instruments when the strings were tuned in unison or when the instrument was used for the same purposes as a monochord.’

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monochordc1450

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 5583 And Instrumentys..Many moo..Orgnys, cytolys, monacordys.

1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 116 Item, to Johne Hert, for bering a pare of Monicordis of þe Kingis fra Abirdene.

1504 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 463 To the cheild playit on the monocordis.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 758 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 118 The crovde and ye monycordis ye gittyrnis gay.

1579 Edinb. Test. VII. f. 176, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mony-, Mon(n)icord Ane pair of monycordis.

1603 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 398 To instruct..the ȝowthe..to play vpoun all musicall instrumentis speciallie virginallis, monicordis, luit, seister.

1683 Brechin Test. VII. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 76 A pair of monacords estimat to iiij lib.

1764 Pennsylvania Gaz. 5 Jan. 3/1 (advt.) Great Variety of German Flutes, Common Flutes, Hautboys, Clarinets, Welch Harp, Monochords , Mutes or Sardines, Rozin Boxes, [etc.].

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxxiv. 399 The vielle, or monochord, commonly called the hurdy gurdy, has frets which are raised by the action of the fingers on a row of keys.

1878 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 366/2 During the Tudor period, frequent mention is found..of the clavichord, clarichord, and monochord; all three names seeming to be shared by one instrument, and that most probably the true clavichord.

1885 A. J. Hipkins Pianoforte in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 65/2 We attribute the adaptation of the narrow regal keyboard to what was still called the monochord, but was now a complex of monochords over one resonance board, to the latter half of the 14th century.

1976 Early Music 4 473/3 A large upright monochord, made in Trondheim in 1752, that looks rather like a grandfather clock and has four strings.

1986 D. M. Randel New Harvard Dict. Music 506/2 Multistringed monochords..were introduced as well as keyed models, from which the clavichord is descended.

b. An electronic keyboard instrument developed from Dr Friedrich Trautwein's trautonium.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > electronic

theremin1927

Martenot1931

trautonium1931

Ondium Martenot1936

Ondes musicales1938

Ondes1940

Ondes Martenot1940

monochord1956

synthesizer1957

Mellotron1963

Moog1967

electrophone1968

Stylophone1968

multi-keyboard1976

synth1976

keytar1979

Synclavier1979

1956 H. A. G. Nathan tr. F. Trautwein (title) The electronic monochord.

1961 S. Abeles tr. P. Collaer Hist. Mod. Music 394 This research does not involve instruments like Trautwein's monochord or the wave instruments of Theremin or Martenot.

1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 11 Apr. (Tempo section) 10 Dickson will perform improvisations on his Electroacoustic Monochord at 11:30 a.m. daily.

1994 P. Manning Electronic & Computer Music (ed. 2) iii. 48 The keyboard system for the Monochord was more flexible [than that of the Melochord].

†3. A harmonious combination of sound; (figurative) harmony, concord. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]

accordmentc1330

accorda1398

consonancya1398

unitya1398

accordancea1400

commoningc1400

convenience1413

correspondence1413

answeringc1425

conformityc1430

consonance1430

congruity1447

concordancec1450

consonantc1475

agreement1495

monochordc1500

conveniencya1513

agreeance1525

agreeableness1531

concinnity1531

congruence1533

harmony?1533

concent1563

tunableness1569

agreeing1575

answerableness1577

concert1578

consent1578

sympathy1578

concord1579

symphonia1579

correspondency1589

atone1595

coherence1597

respondence1598

symphony1598

sortance1600

coherency1603

respondency1603

symbolizing1605

coaptation1614

compositiona1616

sympathizing1632

comportance1648

compliance1649

syntax1649

concinneness1655

symmetry1655

homology1656

consistency1659

consentaneousness1660

consistence1670

comportment1675

harmoniousness1679

symbolism1722

congruousness1727

accordancy1790

sameness1790

consentaneity1798

consilience1840

chime1847

consensus1854

solidarity1874

synchromesh1966

concordancing1976

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > agreement of sounds or harmony

cordc1300

accordmentc1330

concorda1340

accorda1387

consonancya1387

accordancea1400

cordinga1400

symphonyc1440

proportiona1450

chord?c1475

uthec1478

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harmoge1601

minstrelsy1605

dissonancy1626

harmoniousness1679

harmonicalness1693

concentus1769

attune1850

c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 7 Musyng..how that I myght make Reason & Sensualyte in oon to acorde; But I cowde nat bryng about that monacorde.

c1500 in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1809) IV. 408 Purenes in the margent makithe a trew monacorde.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xvi. 62 The vii. scyences in one monacorde, Eche upon other do full well depende.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV Introd. f. v By the whiche you shal..bryng vs into an vnitie and monacord.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. iii There lacked a wrest to the harpe to set all the strynges in a monacorde and tune.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 105 Their cunning mannaging of the Hand in time and tone, I have sometimes call'd the Horse-Rhetorique of Smithfield, which by calculation I have found to differ from the Fish Dialect of Billingsgate, in the monochord of motion.

1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) iii. 210 We hear a sound of sacred and spiritual music as solemn as the central monochord of the inner main itself.

1880 A. C. Swinburne Stud. in Song 91 The sense of thy golden Great harp's monochord Was the joy in the soul of the singers that hailed thee for master and lord.

B. adj. (attributive).

Designating any of various types of one-stringed musical instrument.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > specific number of strings

decachord?1567

quadrichord1585

decachordon1602

tetrachord1603

pentachord1721

heptachord1765

monochord1771

dichord1776

trichord1776

octachord1786

hendecachord1794

tone-measurer-

1771 W. Hooper tr. J. F. von Bielfeld Elements Universal Erudition (new ed.) II. viii. 226 Those instruments that are sounded by touching their strings with a bow... 8. The sea-trumpet, a monochord instrument.

1863 Sci. Amer. 10 Oct. 235/3 Monochord Tuning Instrument... I claim the movable bridge bearing or stop, composed of two pieces of steel or other metal... (The principal object of this instrument is to enable those who play the pianoforte to tune their own instruments.)

1877 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 161/1 The monochord guitar of the Yaquima Indians of North America..is held by the teeth.., and picked with the finger of the right hand, while the left hand is slipped along the string to vary the notes.

1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 429 The second stage is represented by those monochord instruments that are practically bows and nothing more, but which are made for musical purposes alone.

1966 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 8 250 In the more advanced groups, there was an orchestra, a monochord instrument, the castanets.., and the sitar.

1997 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 14 Apr. 1 c Nguyen plays many instruments, primarily the moon-shaped lute called a dan nguyet, a zither called dan tranh and a monochord zither called dan bau.

2002 Saigon Times Mag. (Nexis) 2 Aug. In 1996, Midori began to feel attracted to dan bau, a Vietnamese monochord instrument, and learned to play it.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	monochord
释义	monochordn.adj. Brit. /ˈmɒnə(ʊ)kɔːd/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌkɔrd/ Forms: late Middle English monycord, late Middle English–1500s monacord, late Middle English–1500s monacorde, late Middle English–1500s monocorde, 1600s– monochord; Scottish pre-1700 monacord, pre-1700 monicord, pre-1700 monnicord, pre-1700 monocord, pre-1700 monycord. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French monacorde, monocorde. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman monacorde and Middle French monocorde, monacorde musical instrument with one string, clavicord (12th cent. in Old French; French monocorde ) < post-classical Latin monochordon (5th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek μονόχορδον , use as noun of neuter of μονόχορδος having a single string ( > post-classical Latin monochordos , ?5th cent., rare) < ancient Greek μονο- mono- comb. form + χορδή string (see chord n.¹). Compare Italian monocordo musical instrument with a single string (1528; 14th cent. as monacordo , 1598 in Florio glossed ‘an instrument having manie strings of one sound’), Spanish monocordio (1609 as monacordio ), Catalan monacort (15th cent.). Compare manichord n., manicordium n. A. n. 1. a. A musical instrument consisting of a soundboard with a single string and often a movable bridge, originally used esp. to teach the intervals of plainsong, now used chiefly for mathematical determination of musical intervals. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > other bowable instruments monochorda1450 tympan?a1475 rebab1671 ravanastron1788 vihuela1832 sarinda1851 sarod1867 arpeggione1879 quinton1889 surbahar1896 dilruba1921 esraj1921 spike-fiddle1940 a1450 Musical Treat. in Speculum (1935) 10 269 (MED) Þu shalt fynde more pleynli in þe makyng of þe monacorde þat is callid þe jnstrument of plain-song. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 211 As hit may be schewed in the monocorde [L. monochordo], when the wire extendede on a holowe body is distreynede diametrally. 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus i. ix. 23 The Monochord was chiefly inuented..to be iudge of Musical voices and interuals: as also to try whether the song be true or false.., to shew haire-braind false Musitians their errors, and the way of attaining the truth. Lastly, that children which desire to learne Musicke, may haue an easie meanes to it. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. vii. 72 His mother-tongue was like the dull musick of a monochord, which by study he turns into the harmony of severall instruments. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony iv. 65 These Rations are more certainly found upon the Measures of a Monochord. 1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 141 Monochord, a musical instrument, wherewith to try the variety and proportion of musical sounds. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 78 The method Guido pursued in teaching boys to sing, was by making them practise with the monochord. 1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. i. iv. iv. 312 The monochord is a complete and perfect tonometer. 1863 Sci. Amer. 10 Oct. 236/1 This invention consists in the attachment of a monochord directly to the sound-board of the instrument [sc. a piano]..without the necessity of constructing the monochord with a separate sounding apparatus of its own. 1881 J. Broadhouse Student's Helmholtz 101 Thompson's monochord is a method of demonstrating the pitch by adding different weights to a stretched string. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 953/1 Tromba Marina, a performing variety of the scientific monochord. 1974 Speculum 49 402 The pupil learning the monochord..said that it was ‘a wonderful master who..knows nothing himself’. The computer is our modern monochord. 1994 Observer 13 Mar. 10/3 A one-string monochord, used for teaching music theory, was taken from a medieval manuscript. b. Any of various other single-stringed musical instruments, either plucked or played with a bow, usually belonging to the folk tradition of a particular country or people. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > other stringed instruments > [noun] monochord1740 1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 144 Monochord is used for any musical instrument consisting only of one string;..in this sense the Trumpet marine may properly be called a Monochord. 1787 tr. C.-F. Volney Trav. Syria & Egypt II. xx. 261 They are strangers..to any other accompaniment than the unison, and the continued base of the Monochord. 1877 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 161/2 The Basuto Kafir monochord (tumo) is a bow about five feet in length, and at its middle..passes through a calabash which is held against the chest of the performer. 1904 H. Balfour in N. Annandale & H. C. Robinson Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropol. 16 This form of monochord is common among Malay children. 1943 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Dec. 31/2 For bass accompaniment a monochord can be fashioned out of a large can, a long piece of wood,..and one piece of wire for the single string. 1988 Jrnl. Baltic Stud. 19 359 A controversial question in Latvian and Estonian ethnomusicology is the provenance and age of the bowed monochord. 1999 Independent 18 June (Friday Review section) 17/2 When he was 13..he [sc. Ali Farka Touré] was walking along playing his monochord (a traditional one-stringed guitar) at 2am. 2. a. A musical instrument with several strings and bridges (and often a keyboard) for the production of a combination of sounds; (esp. in early use) a clavichord. Also in plural and as pair of monochords. Now historical.According to S. Sadie in New Grove Dict. Music & Musicians (1984) at that entry, ‘the name monochord was usually retained for multi-string instruments when the strings were tuned in unison or when the instrument was used for the same purposes as a monochord.’ ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > zither > [noun] > monochord monochordc1450 c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 5583 And Instrumentys..Many moo..Orgnys, cytolys, monacordys. 1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 116 Item, to Johne Hert, for bering a pare of Monicordis of þe Kingis fra Abirdene. 1504 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 463 To the cheild playit on the monocordis. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 758 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 118 The crovde and ye monycordis ye gittyrnis gay. 1579 Edinb. Test. VII. f. 176, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mony-, Mon(n)icord Ane pair of monycordis. 1603 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 398 To instruct..the ȝowthe..to play vpoun all musicall instrumentis speciallie virginallis, monicordis, luit, seister. 1683 Brechin Test. VII. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 76 A pair of monacords estimat to iiij lib. 1764 Pennsylvania Gaz. 5 Jan. 3/1 (advt.) Great Variety of German Flutes, Common Flutes, Hautboys, Clarinets, Welch Harp, Monochords , Mutes or Sardines, Rozin Boxes, [etc.]. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxxiv. 399 The vielle, or monochord, commonly called the hurdy gurdy, has frets which are raised by the action of the fingers on a row of keys. 1878 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 366/2 During the Tudor period, frequent mention is found..of the clavichord, clarichord, and monochord; all three names seeming to be shared by one instrument, and that most probably the true clavichord. 1885 A. J. Hipkins Pianoforte in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 65/2 We attribute the adaptation of the narrow regal keyboard to what was still called the monochord, but was now a complex of monochords over one resonance board, to the latter half of the 14th century. 1976 Early Music 4 473/3 A large upright monochord, made in Trondheim in 1752, that looks rather like a grandfather clock and has four strings. 1986 D. M. Randel New Harvard Dict. Music 506/2 Multistringed monochords..were introduced as well as keyed models, from which the clavichord is descended. b. An electronic keyboard instrument developed from Dr Friedrich Trautwein's trautonium. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > electronic theremin1927 Martenot1931 trautonium1931 Ondium Martenot1936 Ondes musicales1938 Ondes1940 Ondes Martenot1940 monochord1956 synthesizer1957 Mellotron1963 Moog1967 electrophone1968 Stylophone1968 multi-keyboard1976 synth1976 keytar1979 Synclavier1979 1956 H. A. G. Nathan tr. F. Trautwein (title) The electronic monochord. 1961 S. Abeles tr. P. Collaer Hist. Mod. Music 394 This research does not involve instruments like Trautwein's monochord or the wave instruments of Theremin or Martenot. 1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 11 Apr. (Tempo section) 10 Dickson will perform improvisations on his Electroacoustic Monochord at 11:30 a.m. daily. 1994 P. Manning Electronic & Computer Music (ed. 2) iii. 48 The keyboard system for the Monochord was more flexible [than that of the Melochord]. †3. A harmonious combination of sound; (figurative) harmony, concord. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] accordmentc1330 accorda1398 consonancya1398 unitya1398 accordancea1400 commoningc1400 convenience1413 correspondence1413 answeringc1425 conformityc1430 consonance1430 congruity1447 concordancec1450 consonantc1475 agreement1495 monochordc1500 conveniencya1513 agreeance1525 agreeableness1531 concinnity1531 congruence1533 harmony?1533 concent1563 tunableness1569 agreeing1575 answerableness1577 concert1578 consent1578 sympathy1578 concord1579 symphonia1579 correspondency1589 atone1595 coherence1597 respondence1598 symphony1598 sortance1600 coherency1603 respondency1603 symbolizing1605 coaptation1614 compositiona1616 sympathizing1632 comportance1648 compliance1649 syntax1649 concinneness1655 symmetry1655 homology1656 consistency1659 consentaneousness1660 consistence1670 comportment1675 harmoniousness1679 symbolism1722 congruousness1727 accordancy1790 sameness1790 consentaneity1798 consilience1840 chime1847 consensus1854 solidarity1874 synchromesh1966 concordancing1976 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > agreement of sounds or harmony cordc1300 accordmentc1330 concorda1340 accorda1387 consonancya1387 accordancea1400 cordinga1400 symphonyc1440 proportiona1450 chord?c1475 uthec1478 attemperance1481 consonant1483 monochordc1500 concordancea1513 concent1538 consort1587 harmoge1601 minstrelsy1605 dissonancy1626 harmoniousness1679 harmonicalness1693 concentus1769 attune1850 c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 7 Musyng..how that I myght make Reason & Sensualyte in oon to acorde; But I cowde nat bryng about that monacorde. c1500 in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1809) IV. 408 Purenes in the margent makithe a trew monacorde. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xvi. 62 The vii. scyences in one monacorde, Eche upon other do full well depende. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV Introd. f. v By the whiche you shal..bryng vs into an vnitie and monacord. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. iii There lacked a wrest to the harpe to set all the strynges in a monacorde and tune. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 105 Their cunning mannaging of the Hand in time and tone, I have sometimes call'd the Horse-Rhetorique of Smithfield, which by calculation I have found to differ from the Fish Dialect of Billingsgate, in the monochord of motion. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) iii. 210 We hear a sound of sacred and spiritual music as solemn as the central monochord of the inner main itself. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Stud. in Song 91 The sense of thy golden Great harp's monochord Was the joy in the soul of the singers that hailed thee for master and lord. B. adj. (attributive). Designating any of various types of one-stringed musical instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > specific number of strings decachord?1567 quadrichord1585 decachordon1602 tetrachord1603 pentachord1721 heptachord1765 monochord1771 dichord1776 trichord1776 octachord1786 hendecachord1794 tone-measurer- 1771 W. Hooper tr. J. F. von Bielfeld Elements Universal Erudition (new ed.) II. viii. 226 Those instruments that are sounded by touching their strings with a bow... 8. The sea-trumpet, a monochord instrument. 1863 Sci. Amer. 10 Oct. 235/3 Monochord Tuning Instrument... I claim the movable bridge bearing or stop, composed of two pieces of steel or other metal... (The principal object of this instrument is to enable those who play the pianoforte to tune their own instruments.) 1877 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 161/1 The monochord guitar of the Yaquima Indians of North America..is held by the teeth.., and picked with the finger of the right hand, while the left hand is slipped along the string to vary the notes. 1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 429 The second stage is represented by those monochord instruments that are practically bows and nothing more, but which are made for musical purposes alone. 1966 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 8 250 In the more advanced groups, there was an orchestra, a monochord instrument, the castanets.., and the sitar. 1997 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 14 Apr. 1 c Nguyen plays many instruments, primarily the moon-shaped lute called a dan nguyet, a zither called dan tranh and a monochord zither called dan bau. 2002 Saigon Times Mag. (Nexis) 2 Aug. In 1996, Midori began to feel attracted to dan bau, a Vietnamese monochord instrument, and learned to play it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † monochordv. Forms: 1600s monocord. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: monochord n. Etymology: < monochord n., after Middle French monichordiser (1534 in Rabelais). Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To perform on the monochord. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play monochord monochord1653 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. vii. 36 He..would nod with his head, monocording with his fingers [Fr. monichordisant des doigtz]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.a1450v.1653
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