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单词 to preside at the piano
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to preside at the piano (also organ, harpsichord, etc.)
5. intransitive to preside at the piano (also organ, harpsichord, etc.): to play the piano, etc., at a gathering; spec. to conduct or lead an orchestra or band while playing the specified instrument.In the 18th cent. the chief musician in a concert or opera commonly sat at a keyboard instrument with the score in front of him, but seems to have guided, not conducted, the orchestra. See also New Grove Dict. Music (1980) IV. 643.
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to preside at the piano (also organ, harpsichord, etc.)1795
1795 Mystic Cottager Chamouny xx. 162 Lady Louisa presided at the grand piano forte, Lady Adela exquisitely touched her harp,..and Lord Edwin took his animating mellifluous flute.
1799 Chron. in Ann. Reg. (1801) 451/1 Preside is the word now applied—not to the leader of the band, but to some distinguished performer—as, ‘Mr. —— will preside at the harpsichord’. Dr. Johnson did not live long enough to insert this meaning of the word, or to inquire whether it had any.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxvi. 96 A professional gentleman, with a bluish nose and his face tied up for the benefit of a toothache presided at a jingling piano in a remote corner.
1893 Amer. Missionary July 229 The school marched across from the boarding-hall to the church, one of their number presiding at the organ.
1907 West Cumberld. Times 4 Dec. 2/6 The hymn ‘Rock of ages’ was then sung by the congregation, Mr. T. L—— presiding at the organ.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 314 Senhor Enrique Flor presided at the organ with his wellknown ability.
2003 Boston Herald (Nexis) 13 June e27 Music Director Jeffrey Brody..presided at the piano with his typically unbreakable gusto.
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