单词 | music hall |
释义 | music halln.adj. Chiefly British. A. n. A public hall or theatre used for musical performances, originally: (a) one used esp. for musical recitals, concerts, and similar productions; and subsequently: (b) a venue for a style of popular entertainment typically consisting of singing, dancing, comedy, and novelty acts; (also) popular entertainment of the type provided in a music hall. Frequently with the. Cf. variety n. Compounds b, vaudeville n. 2.The popularity of music hall was at its height in England in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and declined after the First World War (1914–18) with the rise of cinema. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > music hall variety theatre?1577 music hall1749 hall1862 saloon1864 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > place of performance or practice > [noun] > concert room or hall music room1608 odeuma1610 music housea1641 music gallery1682 concert room1731 Odeon1734 concert hall1747 music hall1749 society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > assembly rooms or halls redoubt1702 assembly-room1744 drum-room1749 assembly house1762 pantheon1772 casino1789 pleasure dome1816 palace1831 melodeon1840 kursaal1850 winter garden1859 music hallc1883 Met1896 1749 (title) The political manager: or, the invasion of the music hall, set forth. 1787 (title) The busy bees. A celebrated song composed by E. Harwood and sung at the Music Hall Liverpool with universal applause. 1814 (title) Music Hall. New sacred oratorio, the Mount of olives, composed by Beethoven. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. iii. 71 The pupils all repaired..to a spacious music-hall,..and listened..to a voluntary on the organ. 1857 J. E. Ritchie Night Side of London 145 The new Music Hall, Hungerford Market. c1883 in G. D. Atkin House Scraps (1887) 166 The young 'un goes to music-halls And does the la-di-da. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxvi. 396 How inane was the life he led, lounging about bars and drinking in music-halls, wandering from one light amour to another! 1968 Listener 5 Sept. 307/1 With his mutton-chop whiskers John Peel appropriately looks like an MC at an Edwardian music hall. 1972 Times 29 Sept. 16/8 To the connoisseurs of the music hall there have been only two great male impersonators, one of whom was Vesta Tilley, the other Hetty King. 1990 Vogue Sept. 117/1 Wall, a veteran of half a century of English music hall..stood straight in his tight-fitting black coat, grey hat and slap shoes. 1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 79 Though barely twenty she [sc. Marie Lloyd] was already separated from her first husband and a rising star of the music hall. B. adj. (attributive). Usually with hyphen. Of, relating to, or suggestive of music halls or the form of entertainment associated with them; vaudevillian. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [adjective] variety1868 music hall1870 vaudevillian1930 vaude1933 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [adjective] > type of theatre > like music hall music hall1870 music-hally1889 1870 D. J. Kirwan Palace & Hovel xxxiv. 503 A popular street and music-hall song. 1873 Punch 15 Mar. 111/1 The popular ‘topical’ song which delights music-hall politicians. 1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 18 Oct. 4/1 When a theatre has been playing down as nearly as possible to the music-hall level. 1920 S. Graham Children of Slaves xiv. 271 The mind stocked with music-hall funniosity and pseudo-cynicism. 1959 New Statesman 25 Apr. 574/3 The opening of the prison scene is made the occasion for an interminable drunken charade..—all for the sake of a primitive music-hall joke repeated at least a dozen times without variation. 1993 V. Sage Mirror for Larks 166 I did funny walks up and down the stone like a music hall artist. Derivatives ˈmusic-hallish adj. belonging to or reminiscent of a music hall or music-hall entertainment. ΚΠ 1893 M. Beerbohm Lett. to R. Turner (1964) 60 A good many common music-hallish people were standing in front of me. 1986 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 24 June 26 He created a succession of lyrics that could be wittily amusing (‘Why Can't the English?’), music-hallish (‘With a Little Bit of Luck’), romantic..and tender. ˈmusic-hally adj. = music-hallish adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [adjective] > type of theatre > like music hall music hall1870 music-hally1889 1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 6 Sept. 2/3 The inferior theatre orchestra is music-hally, blatant, thumping, out of tune. 1994 National Ballet of Canada: Sleeping Beauty 69/1 The light-fingered dexterity of his details—often helped by Donald Saddler's cheery, music-hally choreography. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1749 |
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