| 单词 | run line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrun line run line n. (and adv.) Scottish (now historical) the practice or fact of singing a metrical psalm or hymn continuously; singing of this kind; also as adv.The earlier practice was for the precentor to read or intone each line before it was sung in response by the congregation; cf. read line n. at read adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > church music > [noun] > continuous singing run line1827 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > singing of psalms > specific manner uptaking1579 run line1827 1827 C. I. Johnstone Elizabeth de Bruce I. ix. 102 Instead of the old reverend way of twanging out the psalm, line by line, ‘their rants’, David said, ‘ran straight on run-line’. 1873 W. Mackelvie Ann. United Presbyterian Church 16 ‘The run~line,’ as it was popularly called, (that is, singing continuously, instead of singing and reading alternately) was then introduced. 1888 J. M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls iii The old, reverent custom in the kirk was for the precentor to read out the psalm a line at a time... Where run line holds, however, the psalm is read out first, and forthwith sung. 1949 M. Patrick Four Cent. Sc. Psalmody xiii. 146 She..defiantly took what satisfied her as revenge by ceasing singing at church, noting the passages sung, and singing them alone, run-line and all, in her private worship at home. < as lemmas |
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