单词 | second tenor |
释义 | > as lemmassecond tenor c. = tenor bell n. at Compounds 2. second tenor (quot. 1541), the next bell to the tenor. Also (quot. 1560) applied to a string of tenor pitch in an instrument, as a harp. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > set of bells > specific one of fore-bell1484 tenor bell1522 treble bell1530 tenor1541 treble1598 bourdon1927 1541 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 7 Payde..for mendynge the whele of ye secounde tenor..ij d. 1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xlvi. sig. Biiv Which string..wolost thou..harpe on. Not the base..Nor the standyng tennor... Nor the counter tennor. a1627 T. Middleton Mayor of Quinborough (1661) v. i. 64 Let the Bells ring... 'Las the Tenor's broken, ring out the Treble. 1909 Daily Chron. 1 Oct. 7/2 The present ‘tenor’, as the deepest bell of a peal is always called, was cast here in 1738. < as lemmas |
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