单词 | songbook |
释义 | songbookn. 1. Any of a number of books used during services in the Anglo-Saxon church, esp. a book containing texts of the Divine Office. historical in later use.The Old English word does not necessarily imply that the books contained musical notation, but that the texts contained were to be sung. Although the context in quot. OE1 clearly does imply musical notation, it probably nevertheless refers to the same kind of liturgical book. The word was probably used to refer to different types of antiphonary, perhaps also occasionally to a gradual, but not to a full breviary as suggested in quot. 18531.In quot. OE2 apparently rendering both Latin (liber) nocturnalis and (liber) gradalis (compare the plural sangbēc in the variant reading in quot. OE3, which is ultimately based on the same passage). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > music books > [noun] > hymnary hymn-bookc900 hymnerc900 hymnal1537 anthology1621 songbooka1684 hymnary1888 hymnarium1924 society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book > church music > book of canticles and hymns songbooka1684 OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 291 Nota, þæt is mearcung. Þæra mea[r]cunga sind manega and mislice gesceapene ægðer ge on sangbocum ge on leoðcræfte. OE Ælfric 1st Let. to Wulfstan (Corpus Cambr. 190) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 126 Mæssepreost sceal habban mæsseboc and pistelboc, and sangboc [L. nocturnalem, gradalem] and rædingboc. OE Ælfric Let. to Wulfsige (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 13 Þæt synd þa halgan bec: saltere and pistolboc, godspellboc and mæsseboc, sangboc [OE Cambr. Gg.3.28 sangbec] and handboc. OE Rec. Gifts of Bp. Leofric to Exeter Cathedral (Bodl.) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 228 Nu þær sind.. i collectaneum & ii pistelbec & ii fulle sangbec & i nihtsang. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 136 A vast old song book [altered from singing book] or Service, & some faire Manuscripts. 1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. 18 Out of the Antiphoner..came forth the full song-book or whole service for the canonical hours. 1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. 20 The song-book corresponded with the Salisbury portous and the Roman breviary. 1900 Book-lover Summer 391/2 There were many devotional works of the ordinary kind; there were ‘reading-books for winter and summer’, and song-books, and especially ‘night-songs’. 1984 S. Rankin in Anglo-Saxon Eng. 13 101 The liturgical books [from Exeter], divided into categories according to function... Office... 2 full song-books [antiphoners?]. 2. A book containing a collection of songs with music. Hence in extended use: a collection of songs, esp. songs regarded as standards from a particular place or by a particular songwriter. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book > songbook songbook1473 singing book1580 songster1739 partbook1864 1473 in R. W. M. Lewis Walberswick Churchwardens' Accts. (1947) 34 Itm payd ffor parchemey'n ffor ye songbookks xljd. a1474 Inventory in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 360 Item, j song boke. 1489 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 114 To Wilȝeam Sangstare of Lythqow for a sang bwke he brocht to the King. 1547–8 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 387 Item, for iiij songe bokes of te deum in Englisshe..viij d. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Hh4r-v As if her eyes had beene his songe booke, he did the message of his minde in singing these verses. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. xiv. 157 Apollo..received his Song-book with..extraordinary affection. 1683 W. Lloyd in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 187 I have besides a Welsh Song-book. 1703 Sir Giddy Whim i. i. 6 (stage direct.) Enter Fulvia with a Song Book in her Hand, reads a Song on a Lady at her Husband's Funeral. 1774 Petitions & Papers relating to Bill of Booksellers 13 Four booksellers were harrassed by them for selling a Song Book in which was inserted some Songs taken from a play. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 298/1 The sale of song-books in the streets..is smaller than it was two years ago. 1860 Pathfinder 20 Oct. 256 He [sc. the author of the book of Samuel] used the national song-book of his countrymen to fill out his pages. 1922 Harvard Glee Club (title) Harvard Song Book. 1986 New Pittsburgh Courier 15 Feb. 10/1 Six standards from ‘The Great American Songbook’ and a Dexter original..are given extended treatments. 1990 Gay Times Dec. 73/1 There isn't a duff track on her classy exploration of the Kern song-book. 2014 Uttoxeter Advertiser (Nexis) 21 Oct. (Charity section) 3 A charity combating loneliness through the medium of singing has a new song book. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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