单词 | vocalise |
释义 | vocalisen. Music. 1. A singing exercise using individual vowel sounds or syllables sung in succession, typically in order to develop flexibility and control of pitch and tone. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > [noun] > singing exercise solfeggio1844 vocalise1851 solfège1912 1851 John Bull 1 Feb. 65/2 (advt.) Bordogni's new vocalises. 1872 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 481/2 When the vocalise was ended, I expressed my gratification and my admiration of his method to the maestro. 1918 H. Sanders (title) Thirty vocalises for medium voice. 1959 Listener 2 July 37/3 The second movement..is very much in the spirit of a vocalize. 1980 Early Music 8 18/2 For the virtuoso repertory of the 16th and 17th centuries exercises are available. They belong on the music stand for daily vocalises, and not on a bookshelf for theoretical research. 2017 K. Leigh-Post Mind-Body Awareness for Singers 183/1 Sing the vocalise in Figure 5–5B on ‘ah’. 2. A passage or piece of vocal music consisting of a succession of vowel sounds or syllables; a wordless sung melody. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > [noun] > vocal music without words vocalise1857 mouth music1861 port-a-beul1901 throat singing1916 1857 Musical World 14 Mar. 167/2 The march of the ‘Guardians of the Harem’,..in combination with the choruses and the vocalises of Rezia, forms a most pungent whole. 1876 Atlantic Monthly June 722/2 The famous violin variations, which she performed by way of a vocalise, to the utter amazement of her noble music master..as well as her audience. 1923 F. H. Martens tr. P. Landormy Hist. Music xii. 161 Fashion in his [sc. Haydn's] day..insisted that a musical mass be no more than a concert of opera airs with vocalises, portamentos, ornaments, and cadences. 1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. vi. 262 If the preacher slows or hesitates, one of the older women may pick up the tempo and propel the performance forward in a vocalise which is strikingly like the ‘breaks’ utilized by New Orleans jazzmen. 2003 R. Taruskin in J. Cross Cambr. Compan. Stravinsky xiv. 282 We can perform and enjoy it as an instrumental solo, or a vocalise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1851 |
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