| 单词 | semibreve |
| 例句 | One day, when her mother was drawing little men, that turned out to be semibreves, Nancy, speechless with anger, put her hand to her soft hair, and dragged out a handful of it. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z The twelve o'clock effect is curiously given by twelve sforzato semibreves on muted horns, beginning pianissimo, and swelling up until the twelfth note is given triple fortissimo. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The seven last letters of each series stand for the seven musical notes—the first series representing quavers, the second minims, the third semibreves, the fourth crotchets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" This big note with a hole in it is a semibreve and it counts four of these black notes, which are called crotchets. Loyal to the School As Sol Greening hitched his horse to the Widow Newbolt’s fence, he heard her singing with long-drawn quavers and lingering semibreves: There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel’s veins.... The Bondboy He was thoughtfully painting the face of another semibreve and making it large and black. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Flapping loose his long, white sleeve, Like a penguin spread, Through a subtle semibreve Pierrot thrusts his head. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems At the first sign of irregularity the pupil should stop, pause a moment, and then recommence with the semibreves. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. The demisemiquavers were scarcely equal to the ordinary semibreves of other countries. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories How would you like to see me, with a bit of chalk in my hand, before a black board, scoring up semibreves on a staff for half a dozen Rustics to vocalize? Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Before him on the sheet was half a line of breves and semibreves, which Nancy remembered from her childhood as little men getting over stiles. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z There was also a semibreve, a diamond-shaped note which was used when two or more tones were sung to one syllable. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present To vary the monotony of semibreves the student can then play scales in semiquavers, making one bow last out ten, twelve, or more scales in two octaves. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. The melody has an impressive rallentando of dotted semibreves to the refrain, “Peace, be still,” after the more rapid notes of the three-line stanzas. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes "If we're going to play duets after tea and you continue to absorb sandwiches at your present rate of consumption, you'll soon be incapable of detecting the inherent difference between a quaver and a semibreve." The Moon out of Reach By taking the crotchet as the unit to start with, the old-fashioned plan of exalting the semibreve, the least used note in music, to a primary place, is avoided. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students He says that Pierre sometimes set against a breve four, six, seven and even nine semibreves—a license followed to this day in the small notes of the fioratura. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present A native harpist adds the music of his many strings; and not bad music either, though he does not know a quaver from a semibreve, and his harp is of his own manufacture. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 But whatever the range of vocalization or the dignity of swells and cadences, a slow pace of single semibreves or quarters is not suited to Wesley's hymns. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Calm was restored to their minds by the minister starting a rather long hymn in minims and semibreves, amid the singing of which he ascended the pulpit. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day |
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