| 单词 | water music |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater music water music n. (a) musical sounds made by (flowing, falling, etc.) water; (b) music intended to be heard or performed while afloat.In quot. c1660: the music of hydraulic organs (in the Belvedere di Monte Cavallo in Rome). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > other general types country music1585 water musicc1660 concert music1776 eye music1812 ballet music1813 night music1832 absolute music1856 Tafelmusik1880 Ars Antiqua1886 Ars Nova1886 early music1886 tone poetry1890 mood music1922 Gebrauchsmusik1930 shake music1935 modernistic1938 industrial1942 spasm music1943 musica reservata1944 protest music1949 night music1950 palm court music1958 title music1960 bottleneck guitar1961 rinky-tink1962 Schrammel-musik1967 sweet music1967 chutney1968 roots music1969 electronica1980 multiphonics1983 chutney soca1987 chiptune1992 c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 238 Refresh'd with water-musique, Aviaries & other rarities. ?1727 (title) Six overtures for violins in all their parts as they were perform'd at the Kings Theatre in the operas of Theseus, Amadis, Pastor Fido, Admetus, The Water Musick, Julius Cæsar. [By G. F. Handel.] 1749 H. Walpole Let. 17 May in Corr. (1960) XX. 56 A concert of water music. 1885 Argosy Apr. 272 And then the water music: the steady ripple of the river, the dance of the brook, and the grander tones of the sea. 1888 L. A. Smith Music of Waters 325 The following is a specimen of the paddling-songs, which really form the principal water-music of the Tonga Islands. 1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 9 And as the twilight filtered on the heather Water-music filled the air. 1980 Early Music 8 50/1 It seems likely that Weiss, Buffardin, and Hebenstreit provided ‘water music’ for the royal couple on the barge. 1992 P. Theroux Happy Isles Oceania xxiv. 692 The water music of mountain cataracts. < as lemmas |
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