单词 | pennill |
释义 | pennilln. An improvised Welsh verse sung to a harp accompaniment; a stanza of such verse. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > poem to be sung > other poems to be sung ronc1225 madrigal1586 serenade1710 pennill1784 pada1873 cantiga1915 1784 E. Jones (title) Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh bards..with a choice collection of the Pennillion. 1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin ix. 125 The bards..struck up a sort of consecutive chorus, in a series of pennillion, or stanzas, in praise of Maelgon and his heirship. 1887 J. Thomas in G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 438 The singers continue to take up their Penill alternately with the harp. 1895 Wales Aug. 338/1 Whether we consider the form or the contents of the penhillion, it is not too much to say that many of them belong to the best part of Welsh literature. 1980 Logophile 4 i. 49/1 I have just discovered what a pennill is. It is a traditional Welsh form of improvised verse, normally sung to an accompaniment. Compounds attributive, esp. in pennill singer, pennill singing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of other types of music > [noun] > others mourner1631 catcher1652 monodist1751 pennill singer1784 folk-singer1898 moaner1927 bluesman1930 calypsonian1934 torch singer1934 lieder-singer1936 torcher1940 country singer1953 protest singer1966 ragga1997 1784 E. Jones Mus. Relicks Welsh Bards 30 There are several kinds of Pennill metres... The skill of the pennill-singers in this is admirable. 1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Aug. 15/3 Sir J. H. Puleston informed the Prince of the rules of pennillion singing. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 June 5/2 Eos Dâr, the leading penillion-singer, sang to the accompaniment of the harp the traditional penillion sung at Welsh weddings. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 1009/2 A certain limited group of harp tunes are habitually used for Penillion performances. 1994 J. Edwards Multilingualism (1995) iii. 69 One family regularly..competes in penillion singing and poetry competitions at local and national eisteddfodau. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1784 |
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