单词 | musician |
释义 | musiciann. 1. A person talented in the art of music.Often overlapping with sense 2.In modern use not generally applied to a person who writes music, for whom composer is the more usual term. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] musiciana1398 musickerc1450 music man1569 tuner1579 harmonian1603 minstrel1718 musico1724 harmonist1742 performer1776 executanta1859 musicist1873 melodizer1890 tunester1903 muso1967 muso1977 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 48v Ich wolde bende here hertes from wraþþe to myldenesse, fro sorwe to gladnes... Þis is þe ordinaunce of musiciens [L. musicorum]. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. pr. vi. 107 Musyke maketh musicyens [L. musicos], and phisyk maketh phisicyeens. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. 58 (MED) O thou, Calliope..be helpyng vn-to me..that wyth thyn hony swete Sugrest tongis of rethoricyens, And maistresse art to Musicyens. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. 3489 (MED) Song mellodious of Musciciens..doth gret counfort to euery hih presence. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 28 Þe grete musician cleped Linus, he leued in þoo dayes. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xlvi. f. xvi Bledgaret a cunnyng musician. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xii. 280 Musicens (whiche encludeth singing and plaieng). c1560 T. Becon Relikes of Rome sig. E.ii Pope Vitaliane beyng a lustye Singer and freshe couragiouse Musition himself, brought into the Church pricksonge, descant, and all kynde of..melodie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 184 An admirable musition, O shee will sing the sauagenesse out of a Beare. View more context for this quotation 1655 Campion's Art of composing Musick in Parts in J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick ii. 1 The parts of Musick are in all but four, howsoever some skilful Musitians have composed Songs of twenty..parts. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall 211 A string tun'd (as Musicians speak..) to an Unison with it. 1718 Free-thinker No. 15. 1 Musicians, before they begin to play, always flourish out some loose Notes. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 31 My skill in music could avail me nothing in a country where every peasant was a better musician than I. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. vii. 89 She has a more correct ear than Flora, though a less accomplished musician . View more context for this quotation 1873 A. Helps Some Talk about Animals & their Masters iv. 88 I knew a cat who..had the nicest perception as to who was the best musician in the room. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June 695 (caption) Natural musicians and splendid bandsmen, these Suva natives are impressive looking, with their magnificent physiques. 1999 Asda Mag. Aug. 92/1 Jay persuaded another hot musician, The Prodigy's Liam Howlett, to remix Supasonic and it just spills out of the speakers. 2. A person who performs music, esp. on a musical instrument; a professional performer of music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > professional musiciana1525 musicianer1540 a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 756 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 118 All yus our lady yai lovit with lyking & lyst Menstralis and musicianis mo yan I mene may. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fiiijv Al the musicions and minstrels..playe on theyr instrumentes. 1647 L. Haward Charges Crown Revenue 25 Musicians and Players,..Six Sackbuts: Eight Vials: Three Drumsteds. 1687 W. Winstanley Lives Eng. Poets 71 He was successive a Musician, Schoolmaster, Servingman, Husbandman, Grasier, Poet. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 207 Let who would, for me, cherish, respect, and reward the painter's,..the musician's arts, in proportion to the delight taken in them. 1796 J. Austen Let. 5 Sept. (1995) 8 Let me know..how many of the Gentlemen, Musicians & Waiters, he will have persuaded to come in their Shooting Jackets. 1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray I. x. 197 He was ordering the musicians to do this and that all the evening. 1894 E. Sullivan Woman 57 When she [sc. Queen Elizabeth] felt the supreme moment approaching she told the musicians to strike up her favourite air. 1958 R. K. Narayan Guide ix. 166 I had now a permanent group of musicians—five of them: a flautist, a drummer, etc. 1994 H. Burton Leonard Bernstein iv. xxxii. 361 He drilled the strings player by player, treating London's finest orchestral musicians as if they were recalcitrant children. 3. In extended use: a person or thing likened to a musician; esp. a songbird. ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 256 + 21 Suppose the singing birds musitions. ?1614 W. Drummond Song: It Autumne was in Poems The wing'd Musicians did salute the Morne. a1653 H. Binning Serm. (1845) 595 Christ and His ministers are the musicians that do apply their songs to catch men's ears and hearts. 1723 J. Barker Patch-work Screen for Ladies 106 The Ladies went thither, where they were saluted with a most pleasant Consort of chirping Musicians. 1880 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XI. 209/1 The notes of the hen [of the Pine-Grosbeak] may be deemed to qualify her as a musician of no small merit. 1928 Sci. Monthly July 82 We have another order of insects which are instrumental musicians of the highest stamp, the Orthoptera. 1993 L. Beinhart Amer. Hero. xviii. 137 Every artist is a jazz musician, running new riffs on old turns. CompoundsΚΠ 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 80 Musician Thrush... Le Musicien de Cayenne... It is much regarded for its song, which is so fine as to entitle it to the name of Musician among the inhabitants [of Cayenne]. Derivatives muˈsician-wise adv. rare ΚΠ 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous ix, in McClure's Mag. Mar. 428/2 He swept his hand musician-wise through his hair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398 |
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