| 单词 | quarter-tone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter-tone quarter-tone n. Music one half of a semitone (frequently attributive). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > quarter-tone quarter-note1627 quarter-tone1673 demi-semitone1866 quarter1902 1673 M. Locke Present Pract. Musick 15 By Harmonical Proportion of whole, half, and quarter Tones..[they] advance to That we call Composition, the Mother of all Vocal and Instrumental Musick. 1774 Steele in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 71 The enharmonic genus requires intervals of the diesis, or quartertone. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (at cited word) The Quarter-Tone is of two kinds, viz. the major-enharmonic..and the enharmonic minor. 1866 C. Engel Introd. Study National Music ii. 45 The seven intervals of the Hindu Scale..are subdivided into twenty-two srooti, corresponding to quarter-tones. 1891 C. R. Day Mus. & Mus. Instruments S. India ii. 20 The quarter-tone system used in Syria. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 311 The quarter-tone quartets of Aloys Haba..differ from the quartets of Brahms only through being written in the quarter-tone scale. 1959 Collins Mus. Encycl. 524/1 Alois Hába has written a number of compositions..for quarter-tone piano, and for quarter-tone harmonium. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Dec. ii. 40/6 A keethara: an unusual piano with a dual keyboard, one tuned to Western scales, the other to Eastern quarter-tones. < as lemmas |
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