| 单词 | white note |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite note white note n. Music (a) a note with an open head, as a semibreve or minim (opposed to black note: see black adj. 7a(b)); (b) a note corresponding to a white key on a keyboard (cf. natural n.1 10a, black adj. 7b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > natural white note1597 natural1609 mean1675 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶4 If a white note (which they called black voide) happened amongste blacke full, it was diminished of halfe the value. 1677 R. Scamler Serm. preached at Great Yarmouth 2 Both which make our lives fitly compar'd to a Musick-book, where we shall seldom observe many white notes, but they art intermixed with black, and both together compose the sweetest harmony. ?1775 W. Waring tr. J.-J. Rousseau Dict. Music 309 The white notes show the full sounds, where each part may reach to an equal height and an equal descent. 1806 J. W. Callcott Musical Gram. iv. 46 The Rests of the white Notes are made in the middle of the Staff. 1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music ii. 44 The white-note scales on C (Ionian mode) and A (Aeolian mode) were already our C major and A minor scales. 1983 Listener 14 July 35/3 With its use of the traditional plainchant melody of the Psalm, its ‘white-note’ counter-melodies and harmonisations..it struck a fresh note after the highly-wrought complexity and chromaticism of most of Goehr's earlier works. 1999 Times (Nexis) 14 Jan. The link between the eye and ear starts with the very notation of music, its patterns of symbols and staves, black notes, white notes, rectangles, hairpins, half-circles with dots. < as lemmas |
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