单词 | sourdine |
释义 | sourdinen.adj. Somewhat rare. A. n. a. Early Music. A muted trumpet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > trumpet > types of lilting-hornc1384 claranerc1410 clarinec1440 trumpet1440 sordine1591 sordine trumpet1616 clarion1621 alchemy1667 sourdinea1678 jubil-trumpet1715 lituus1776 sea-trumpet1776 penny trumpet1783 salpinx1865 principal1876 valve trumpet1877 tuba1882 kakaki1932 zugtrompete1978 vuvuzela2003 a1678 A. Marvell Upon Appleton House in Misc. Poems (1681) 90 Death-Trumpets creak in such a Note, And 'tis the Sourdine in their Throat. 1891 C. R. Day Descriptive Catal. Musical Instruments Royal Mil. Exhib., London, 1890 v. 96 The combination of a double reed with a cylindrical bore..presents certain theoretical difficulties... During the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries instruments thus constructed were in common use. Those most generally met with were the krumhorn..and the sourdine. 1941 N. Bessaraboff Anc. European Mus. Instr. 80 There were several families of instruments, such as the cromornes, the racketts (‘the sausage bassoons’), the sourdines. 1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance vi. 45/3 The tone is much softer and more muffled, however, and very similar to that of a rackett; hence the other name given to the instrument..sourdine (French). b. A mute or damper. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > mute for sordine1591 sourdet1611 sourdine?1779 mute1841 wah-wah mute1925 straight mute1926 plunger1934 plunger mute1935 cup mute1955 harmon mute1955 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > mute sourdine?1779 mute1786 sordine1789 chin-mute1875 ?1779 W. Waring tr. J.-J. Rousseau Compl. Dict. Music 384 Sourdine, a small instrument of copper or silver, which is applied to the bridge of a violin or violincello, to render the sounds weaker. 1959 Collins Mus. Encycl. 618/2 Sourdine... (1) Mute (of a string or wind instrument). (2) Damper (in the piano). (3) A device for muting the strings of the piano. B. adj. Muffled, subdued. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > deadening > deadened deaf1612 deadened1720 smothered1810 dully1832 muffled1837 muted1860 sordine1894 sourdine1898 1898 N.Y. Times 2 July The art of making a commonplace event striking by telling it in hints, as in the sourdine little tragedy of ‘A Modern Melodrama’. 1904 Windsor Mag. Dec. 166/2 A singular little tune, half sourdine, half pizzicato. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.a1678 |
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