| 单词 | mood perfect of the more |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmood perfect of the more b. Early Music. (a) Of a note in medieval music: that is three times the length of a note of the next lower denomination; (b) Designating those rhythmic modes which are characterized by a ratio of three to one between the durations of all or some of the longer note-values and the next longer value, as mood perfect of the more (also great mode perfect), mood perfect of the less (see quots. 15971, 15972, 1782). Cf. mode n. 1b, mood n.2 3. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > types of proportion proportionate?a1505 imperfectc1570 perfect1588 retorted1597 retortive1597 imperfectible1609 major?1779 minor?1779 1588 W. Byrd Psalms, Sonets, & Songs Errata in Eng. Madrigal School (1920) XIV. p. xi In some of the songs the Moode is mistaken: wherefore where you see this Moode being the Perfect of the lesse: sing after this Moode being the Imperfect of the more. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 18 The moode perfect of the more is, when all go by three; as three Longes to the Large: three Breeues to the Longe [etc.]. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 18 The Moode perfect of the lesse prolation is, when all go by two, except the Semibreefe: as two Longes to the Large:..three Semibreeues to the Breefe. 1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 2 In regard the notes now in use are not of so long a quantity, as when the perfect Moodes were used. 1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick i. 30 The mood..called Perfect of the Less, in which three Semibreves went to a Measure. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 421 The great Mode perfect, in which all long notes were equal in duration to three of the next shorter in degree. 1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 766 Mode, Time, and Prolation were themselves capable of assuming a Perfect or an Imperfect form. 1961 R. Stevenson Spanish Cathedral Music 47 The fourteen other masses contain but a handful of movements in triple meter; and never do these movements make use of ‘mood perfect of the less prolation’. 1986 D. M. Randel New Harvard Dict. Music 487/1 Often, as in the case of a long followed by a dot followed by a breve, the dot has the effect of making the preceding note perfect, i.e., worth three of the next smaller value. < as lemmas |
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