| 单词 | plectrum |
| 例句 | Since I was listening exclusively to punk at the time, it was this voice, with its distorted screech – the vocal equivalent of scraping a plectrum down guitar strings – that caught my attention. My hero: Bj?rk 2011-07-22T21:55:12Z He abandoned a plectrum for direct contact with the strings, ensuring that every note was distinct, different and mattered. Jeff Beck: The unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Kuniyoshi plucked the notes with a plectrum, a pick made of horn that fits over the finger. T Magazine: Island Records 2012-11-16T18:00:23Z The sight of a computer tablet sitting atop a quintessentially nonelectronic instrument made of wood, strings and plectrums for plucking them was incongruous. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z It was a novel timbre on which to base a work, though not quite as a novel as the double bass player thrumming along the length of the strings with a plectrum. Ensemble 10/10/Rundell – review 2013-02-28T14:59:43Z Marr offered to swap a plectrum for my Oscar, but in the end handed it over gratis - what a gent. Winner's diary 2011-02-28T16:48:07Z Corresponding with changes in daily sunlight, solar photocells in the tree canopy trigger low-voltage charges, activating plectrums that pluck wire strings within the body of the sculpture. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Instead, we have a lot of percussion and plectrum, or plucking, instruments, including a zither, partly to give it a central European feeling. Tonys 2015: Composer John Kander 'channels' his late partner, lyricist Fred Ebb 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z I decided to use plectrums to create a portrait of him because I like experimenting with different materials and textures and I think it is a fitting tribute to the musician. Hendrix plectrum mosaic on show 2011-02-24T08:35:11Z A mosaic of Jimi Hendrix made from more than 5,000 different coloured Fender guitar plectrums is to be auctioned later. Hendrix plectrum mosaic on show 2011-02-24T08:35:11Z As well as innovative collaborations he also created his own plectrums using dentist's acrylic and sometimes plucking his guitar's strings with objects such as pebbles and shells. Derek Bailey: Guitar pioneer who tore up music's rulebook 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z And from the off, he was untethered from the stage, running up and down the crowd barriers to pose for selfies, clasp people's hands, hand out plectrums and read their signs. Bruce Springsteen settles an old score in Hyde Park 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The art studio of the latest rock star to trade in the plectrum for the paintbrush is not in the most starry of locations. Chrissie Hynde: ‘It's hard work being alone. Paintings are an outlet' 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z In one talked-about case last year, an unemployed Finn called Christian was caught carving and selling wooden guitar plectrums. A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work | Aditya Chakrabortty 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Even Aristotle mused that if “the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves.” The robots aren’t threatening your job 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In later life, Bailey was forced to experiment further still with his guitar playing, when motor neurone disease left him unable to grip a plectrum. Derek Bailey: Guitar pioneer who tore up music's rulebook 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z She was credited with having invented a certain kind of lyre and the plectrum. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z There are no fights on stage tonight, but there is a minor ruckus at the front when she drops her plectrum. Chrissie Hynde: 'I never found life in music harder because I'm a woman' 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z But the sum was not what angered the authorities, it was the thought that each plectrum had taken up time that could have been spent on official hoop-jumping. A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work | Aditya Chakrabortty 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Featuring a slot for the iPhone, Instrument 1 looks like a cross between a banjo and a violin and has a built-in plectrum. The Music Of A Hardware Startup 2013-10-14T23:27:00Z And finally, the carries a story of 65-year-old Norman Hore who dropped his guitar plectrum down the back of his sofa. School shooting dominates papers 2012-12-15T05:49:13Z Budget alternative The Pickmaster plectrum punch works like a hole punch to make a guitar pick out of your defunct credit cards and any other thin plastic you can find. Christmas gifts: budget v bling 2012-11-30T23:01:23Z Cake decorations, coat-hanger size cubes and guitar plectrums were their tat of choice. The fashion for turning junk into art 2012-06-26T00:03:32Z Of Walt Whitman it is: "The dirty, clumsy paws of a harper whose plectrum is a muckrake." Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z A "plectrum" on one wing was dragged along a microscopic comb-like structure on the other. Jurassic cricket's song recreated 2012-02-06T23:33:59Z The langelik has a long, flat body, with round holes, and at least seven strings, which are struck with a plectrum. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z And he was a man of great skill in music, so that he played the lyre with his bare hand without a plectrum. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Thou of the chorded shell and golden plectrum, thou Of the dark eyes and pale pacific brow! Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z Using its trochanter as a plectrum, this insect makes weird music, which can be heard at a considerable distance. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z To-day the universe seemed to breathe of music, the boughs of the old tree and the granite rocks were as the strings of a sounding harp, touched by the wind as a plectrum. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The current or air-reed thus acts upon the air column within the flute, without passing through the tube, as a plectrum upon a string, setting it in vibration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The central rose sound-holes of stringed instruments whose strings are plucked by fingers, or plectrum have given place to smaller lateral sound-holes placed on each side of the strings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z In playing it the touching is not done with the fingers, but with a plectrum of ivory. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z The Harpsichord, as its name implies, was an instrument whose strings were plucked by a plectrum. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z "When he had wrought the lovely instrument He tried the chords, and made division meet, Preluding with the plectrum, and there went Up from beneath his hand a tumult sweet Of mighty sounds." Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z The dulcimer differed from the psalterium or psaltery chiefly in the manner of playing, the latter having the strings plucked by means of fingers or plectrum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z She felt like some sentient lyre, on which a giant without sense of music strums with a mighty plectrum. Shadows of Flames A Novel Loudness of accent and great brilliancy of tone, however, can only be obtained by the use of the plectrum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" According to a northern version of the ballad, he makes a plectrum from 'a lith of her finger bane.' The Balladists Famous Scots Series Struck with the plectrum on the lyre, And in melodious beauty sung, Brighter than love's and glory's fire, It resonant rings upon the tongue. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems The Greek harp was played by picking the strings with the fingers or with a plectrum. How the Piano Came to Be And I see no reasonable objection to the supposition that friction may have been used as a means of tone-production prior to the introduction of the plectrum. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. The plectrum used by the player is equally primitive being a fish-bone, a thorn or a bit of wood. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) The arrangement of the tongue, spring, plectrum, and damper are shown in figure 11. Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries The strings are sounded by a plectrum, or plucker, shaped like an ivory tooth, fastened to the fingers, and drawn backwards and forwards so rapidly that it produces an almost continuous sweet dreamy sound. Chatterbox, 1906 A plectrum was used to play them both. How the Piano Came to Be True, the majority of writers look upon the bow as a development of the plectrum, but this is a theory that I must confess does not strike me as being satisfactorily probable. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. Muse of choral song and dance: a lyre and the plectrum. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 It is strung with metal strings, however, and played with a plectrum, whereas the mediæval lute was played with the fingers. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present It is played like the real 'king,' by being struck with a special stick or plectrum, and the tone, though less varied than that of the larger instrument, is equally deep and full. Chatterbox, 1906 It was made to sound by means of a quill plectrum attached in a rude way to the end of the keys. How the Piano Came to Be Next to him is a harper, using a plectrum, and at the 141 right end of the group is a pair of players, man and woman, performing on a glockenspiel. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera An instrument of this kind could be played with the fingers, like a harp, or with a plectrum, like a zither, or with two little knob-sticks, like the dulcimer. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries This was a very large lute, with many strings, which were wire, and played, therefore, with a plectrum. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present "Come hither, gentle Swiss," said the dwarf striking the plectrum into her mandolin strings, "and I will reward thee for thy back and all thy courtly services." The Lady of Fort St. John Better tone was derived from strings plucked with fingers or plectrum, and so the rude contrivance remained long undeveloped. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music The harp was probably like a large guitar, only it was played like a mandolin, with a plectrum. Hebrew Life and Times Her plectrum vibrated evenly and rapidly, and the metallic twang, her gravest fault, was not nearly so evident as usual. The Luckiest Girl in the School The tone was thin and delicate, but as the plectrum did not remain in contact with the string, the vibration continued longer than in the clavier. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Zélie brought the instrument case, unlocked it, and handed up a crook-necked mandolin and its small ivory plectrum to her tyrant. The Lady of Fort St. John When the key was pressed down, the jack moved upward past the string which was caught and twanged by the plectrum. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art The little dwarf was sitting cross-legged, and was playing a plectrum instrument. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia His lyre shall be jocose, his plectrum of the lighter sort. Horace and His Influence In the cembalo there was a wooden jack resting upon the end of the keys, and upon this jack a little plectrum made of raven's quill, which had to be frequently renewed. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Thou of the chorded shell and golden plectrum! thou Of the dark eyes and pale pacific brow! Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses Gladly the son of Maia received it; while the glorious son of Leto, Apollo, the Prince, the Far-darter, held the lyre in his left hand, and tuned it orderly with the plectrum. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological His head was huge, his back was like a bow, and his plectrum arm bent into an S curve, which curled round his instrument as though it had been bent to fit. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia One plays on a seven-stringed lyre by means of a plectrum. Ancient Egypt When the key was pressed, the jack rose and the plectrum snapped the wire. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present The strings are generally struck with the thumb-nail or with a piece of horn or wood like the ancient plectrum. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 The son of glorious Leto fares harping on his hollow harp to rocky Pytho, clad in his fragrant raiment that waxes not old, and beneath the golden plectrum winsomely sounds his lyre. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological The whole being of a healthful hilarious youth, who feels life in every limb, thrills to temptation, like the lyre to the plectrum. Sermons to the Natural Man It was played with a plectrum, which the performer holds in his right hand.—No. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 The sound of the string's twang and the rattle of the bone plectrum drowned the sweetness of the note. Kimono Then as the water from the broken vase Gushes, or on the mailed horseman falls The anvil din of steel, as on the silk The slash of rending, so upon the strings Her plectrum fell. A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China They used no bows on the stringed instruments, but either the fingers or the plectrum,—a stick of wood, ivory, or metal. Outline of Universal History The instruments she could play were the organ, the guitar, the syrinx or panpipe, and the lyre, which she struck not with her fingers, but a plectrum represented beside it. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc A harp played with a plectrum, and, perhaps, also with the left hand occasionally.—No. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers An angel plays the cymbals, and another with a plectrum strikes a metal disc. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc They are as full as they are silent, and wait for my plectrum to stir the strings of their lyre. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers |
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