单词 | cantillation |
释义 | cantillationn. Chanting, intoning, musical recitation; spec. that used in Jewish synagogues. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > church music > [noun] > singing or chanting of chantryc1400 cantillation1864 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > chanting > in synagogues cantillation1864 1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 328 The kind of singing which musicians call cantillation, and which may be heard in every synagogue. 1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 158 The Arabs..recite the Koran to a sort of irregular chant or cantillation. 1901 W. B. Yeats Let. 16 Mar. (1954) iv. 348 Mr. Runciman said that I called a method of speaking verse..‘Cantilation’... You will perhaps permit me to say that Mr. Runciman invented the word. I never used it, and I don't mean to. 1919 E. Pound Quia Pauper Amavi 39 Up, up my soul, from your lowly cantilation. Derivatives cantiˈlationary adj. ΚΠ 1902 G. B. Shaw Let. 6 June in C. Bax Farr, Shaw & Yeats (1941) 19 I should do no good by entering into cantilationary polemics... Half the curates in the kingdom cantilate like mad all the time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1864 |
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