Camotint

Blend of camouflage + tint, coined by inventor Sidney Cotton.

Then an F.24 camera was installed in each wing, and the whole airframe painted in a pale duck-egg green 'Camotint' finish for 'invisibility.'

1980, Chaz Bowyer, Supermarine Spitfire, page 43:

But by the time it left Habbaniya it had been transformed into a civilian aircraft GAGAR and once again painted in the Camotint blue-green camouflage.

2011, Jeffrey Watson, Sidney Cotton: The Last Plane Out of Berlin:

Then Niven took off on September 1 in a single-engined Beech 17 which had been painted in Camotint, and photographed Wilhelmshaven once more.

2014, Dave Humphrey, Legends & Heroes - behind the lens, page 60:

(historical) Any of several pale camouflage colours used by the British Royal Air Force during World War II, especially Camotint green.


Mountbatten pink

en-noun

Mountbatten pink (countable and uncountable, plural Mountbatten pinks)

Named after the British naval officer Lord Mountbatten.

Mountbatten pink:

Before long all the destroyers in his flotilla were painted medium grey with a dash of Venetian red, a tone that quickly became known as Mountbatten pink.

2016, Kassia St Clair, The Secret Lives of Colour:

(historical) A pinkish-grey camouflage colour, used to paint several ships of the British Royal Navy during World War II.


Baul

Baul songs

One of a class of a syncretic religious sect of hardy, mystic minstrels from rural Bengal.


orchestra pit

On the stage of the Gotham gloom reigned. . . . Johnson Miller was pacing the gangway between the orchestra pit and the first row of the orchestra chairs.

1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in Jill the Reckless:

Thirty-four years ago a gaunt young Russian with a crew haircut took over the job as chief conductor in the orchestra pit of Moscow's Imperial Grand Theatre.

1939 December 18, “Music: Rachmaninoff”, in Time, retrieved 2018-01-11:

An audience member at the Metropolitan Opera sprinkled a powdery substance — what the police said may have been the ashes of his mentor — into the orchestra pit during an intermission of a performance on Saturday, setting off a police investigation and the cancellation of the rest of that opera.

2016 October 29, Michael Cooper, Christopher Mele, “Powder Tossed at Metropolitan Opera May Have Been Human Ashes, Police Say”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-01-11:

(performing arts) A sunken area in front of a stage in which musicians, largely hidden from view, play music to accompany stage performances.


trance gate

(music) A sequencer effect that breaks up a continuous sound according to a programmed rhythm.


stutter edit

(music) An audio manipulation in which fragments of sound are repeated at rhythmic intervals, used for example in trance music.


rawap

a fretless plucked long-necked lute used in Uyghur traditional music


bow grip

I need a re-hair and a new bow grip but I can't afford either.

(music, lutherie) The small section of a stringed instrument's bow near the heel having grippy material such as goatskin leather or snakeskin wrapped tightly around the bow stick between the lapping and the frog, so as to facilitate it being held and to protect the stick.

Improving your bow grip is one of the most challenging aspects of learning to play the violin.

(music) The refined and precise manner of holding the bow of a bowed string instrument.


rehair

en-verb

rehair (third-person singular simple present rehairs, present participle rehairing, simple past and past participle rehaired)

rehairs (present singular third-person)
rehairing (participle present)
rehaired (participle past)
rehaired (past)

Could you rehair my bow by tomorrow?

(music, lutherie, bowmaking) To renew the hair of the bow of a bowed string instrument.


rehair

I've heard he does excellent rehairs.

(music, lutherie, bowmaking) An instance of re-hairing.


underslide

(music, lutherie, bowmaking) The metal slide attached to the frog and sitting between the frog and the stick of a bow.


glee-beam

Calque of Old English glēobēam (“harp”, literally “joy-wood”), equivalent to glee + beam.

calque

"[…] So we do him service gladly, thronging round our noble king,
While the glee-beams at the banquet with the Scêfing's praises ring."

1895, Mary Louisa Georgina Petrie Carus-Wilson, Tokiwa and Other Poems, page 120:

The king's scop or earl's gleeman, was the favourite of the court; the one indispensable guest at every banquet and every courtly gathering; whose skill with the glee-beam or harp spread joy throughout the festive hall, and whose memory was stored with soul-stirring tales of great deeds, the recital of which could not fail to fire the hearts and quicken the pulses of young and old alike.

1896, Stephen Humphreys Villiers Gurteen, The Epic of the Fall of Man:

That man may sing and declare many things. A marvel of wisdom is hidden in his heart. Another with his fingers may loudly strike the harp, stir the glee-beam for the joy of his companions.

1919, The Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly, volume 4, page 166:

“Then there will we abide. Long have we wayfared, and wearied am I by the journey. Though the priests may not hearken to song, or story, or glee-beam, yet will they shelter us for the night.”

1923, Lucy Foster Madison, A Maid at King Alfred's Court:

(Anglo-Saxon, historical, kenning, music) A harp.

Anglo-Saxon; kenning; Anglo-Saxon; kenning


doujin music

en-noun

doujin music (usually uncountable, plural doujin musics)

Derived from Japanese 同人音楽 (dōjin ongaku, “doujin music”).

bor

Fan-made music, often containing music from published works – such as from anime, manga, or video games – or otherwise inspired by such works.


daxophone

From German Dachs (“badger”) (since it can generate animal sounds) and saxophone.

(music) An electric wooden experimental musical instrument, a kind of friction idiophone.


patter song

(singing) A type of humorous song sung at a rapid tempo, typical of comic opera, operettas, and musicals.


truck driver's gear change

(music, slang, derogatory) The practice of extending a composition by repeating an earlier section but transposed to a higher pitch.


parandero

On the Caribbean coast, the Ganfuna communities are known for their paranda, most of whose practitioners (paranderos) are fairly elderly and live in Belize.

2002, Moon handbooks: Guatemala, page 63:

The possibility, however remote, was enough for one parandero to point this out as part of my education into the tradition. In retrospect, during the first night of parang in 1989, I learned far more than chords and rhythms.

2008, Kevin K. Birth, Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad., →ISBN:

Few people know this, but at a time when many young people were turning away from Garifuna traditions, Andy's very first recording was a song on Traditional Music of the Garifuna (Black Carib) of Belize (Folkways, 1 982), with late parandero Gabaga Williams on guitar, backed by a female chorus and Garifuna drummers.

The paranderos, the singers, had arrived.

2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Even in Paradise, →ISBN, page 263:

Paul Nabor was a legendary Garifuna parandero from Punta Gorda, Wilfred Peters was a Creole brukdown accordionist from Belize City, and Florencio Mess is a traditional Maya harpist living in the farming village of San Pedro Columbia.

2016, Alex Egerton, Paul Harding, Lonely Planet Belize, →ISBN:

(Caribbean) A man who performs parang music.


soprano saxophone

en-noun

soprano saxophone (plural soprano saxophones)

A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the alto saxophone but larger than the sopranino saxophone, with a range of A♭₃ to E₆ or similar.


biliblanket

Blend of bilirubin + blanket, originally a brand name, BiliBlanket, trademarked by General Electric's Datex Ohmeda subsidiary, coined in the early 1990s.

The advantage to the biliblanket is that the infant's eyes do not need to be covered as long as the biliblanket is shielded and continuous phototherapy is provided even when holding or feeding the infant.

1997, Wendy L. Votroubek, Julie Townsend, Pediatric Home Care, →ISBN, page 281:

Biliblankets are used as another way of giving a jaundiced baby phototherapy treatment.

2003, Nikki Bradford, Your Premature Baby: The First Five Years, →ISBN, page 28:

For more severe cases a biliblanket may be recommended. It's a special blanket that wraps around the baby and works like concentrated sunlight to break down the bilirubin.

2016, Andrea Purcell, Over 35 and Pregnant, →ISBN:

Any of various light-emitting blankets that are used for home treatment of jaundice in infants.


French white

An especially pure form of white lead, particularly as used in paints.


buzzie

Dredging wasn't mining. A man had to know something about lode mining, and could Andy name a man working on the boat who knew a muckstick from a buzzie?

1950, Helen Rich, The Willow-bender: A Novel, page 236:

Both buzzies were broke down. Burke left me alone to do my work. I disconnected teh compressed-air lines, opened my tool box and got at it.

1980, Donald McCaig, The Butte Polka: A Novel, page 114:

Technology such as steam-powered hoists and "buzzies," hand-held, two-man air drills, speeded up production but did nothing to improve working conditions. The buzzies, in fact, produced so much fine dust that they led to a higher rate of silicosis, a debilitating respiratory disease, and were soon dubbed "widowmakers."

2006, Clemens P. Work, Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West, →ISBN:

(mining, slang) A hand-held pneumatic drill used in mining.

The brilliant qualities of the Diritto and the Curvo seem to lend themselves to use with sackbutts or large mixed ensembles composed of "buzzies" such as shawms, racketts, and crumhorns.

1976, International Trumpet Guild, ITG Journal - Volumes 1-5, page 32:

...a large family of capped reeds, often referred to collectively and affectionately as buzzies, which contains many straight, cylindrical bore instruments such as Cornemusen (a term sometimes applied in general to the family), Schreierpfeiffen, and a modern generic reproduction known as the Glastonbury Pipe, to be discussed in more detail further on.

1991, Suzanne Eve Hirschman, Digital waveguide modeling and simulation of reed woodwind instruments:

The “buzzies,” capped double-reed instruments like the crumhorn, the dulcian, the rankett (or “rackett”), provide a change of sonority, and sometimes an outburst of hilarity, when one of them is used or a consort is played together.

2011, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Early Music: A Very Short Introduction, →ISBN, page 47:

(music) A capped double-reed instrument.

So, instead, he took to hoeing weeds — thistles and buzzies — from the nearer paddocks.

1952, John Rowland Skemp, Memories of Myrtle Bank:

If there are idle times in my day Ms Tia certainly knows how to fill them, applying her weedicide program to padddocs she returned on two occasions with fur covered in buzzies.

2011, Susan Lucas, Inside my Skin, →ISBN, page 291:

The high spot of the week was when they combed the contents of her bottle-brush head—burrs and buzzies, various creepy-crawlies dislodged from the greenery as she tripped past—out onto an old copy of the Sydney Morning Herald and burned the result.

2011, Helen Hodgman, Jack and Jill, →ISBN, page 9:

That triangle of tangled undergrowth was infested with clothes-grabbing burdocks (“buzzies” we called them) and beggar's ticks.

2015, Jim Bennet, South End Boy: Growing up in Halifax in the tumultuous '30s and '40s, →ISBN:

Actually, the Irish don't trouble themselves with which is which, but you buzzies get mighty frustrated trying to figure it out.

2008, Suzanne Supplee, When Irish Guys Are Smiling, →ISBN, page 42:

"We're no buzzies!' Manuel says, but the slit scrapes shut.

2017, Denise Mina, The Long Drop, →ISBN, page 122:


rondalla

(music) An ensemble of stringed instruments played with the plectrum or pick, originating in medieval Spain.


radiationist

More than 100 fatalities were recorded among these pioneer radiationists. One of the earliest and now best known incidents of Industrial radiation injury is that of the radium dial painters. During and immediately after World War I, a number of women worked in a war plant painting luminous watch and instrument dials. The luminous material was a mixture of a paint containing zinc sulfide, which phosphoresces on exposure to alpha rays, and a radium salt.

1957, The Control of Radiation Hazards in Industry:

Soon after the new scheme begins, another four professions will be added including; Aboriginal health workers, Chinese Medicine practitioners, medical radiationists and occupational therapists.

2009, N Blake, “Changes to 457 Visas - Implications for Nursing”, in Australian Nursing Journal:

The expertise of qualified oncologists, radiation therapists, and diagnostic radiationists are within close proximity of the clinic and will be used as determined by individual patient needs.

2014, William Winston, Marketing the Group Practice: Practical Methods for the Health Care Practitioner, Routledge, →ISBN:

(nonstandard, rare) One whose (medical or scientific) profession is to apply radiation or radioactive material (to someone or something).

I am not subscribing here to the theory of Richet or to that of the radiationists who believe that the perception is due to radiations given off from an object or a drawing. My emphasis is rather upon the percipient. The human being is dynamic, not the target. If there are any radiations, they must stem from him. It is my firm conviction that in the personality of the percipient we shall find what will prove most valuable for the understanding of paranormal manifestations.

1955, Eileen Jeanette Lyttle Garrett, Tomorrow:

Discover these radiations for yourself. Start slowly, say for not more than a 15 minute period. Experienced radiationists work for hours on certain studies but they all started gradually. First make this test for sensitivity. Stand upright, relax and face due West. Place your left hand flat over your solar plexus — the place where the ribs join — the fingers touching each other. Now suspend the pendulum from the right hand about nine inches from the left hand and opposite the center ...

1996, Mary Elsnau, Occult Phenomena, Mysteries & Philosophy, Health Research Books, →ISBN, page 62:

extrasensory perception
extrasensory perception

(rare) One who believes in or claims to practice extrasensory perception by sensing radiation.


lyric video

A music video in which the words to the song are the main feature.


sundari

(music) A double-reed wind instrument with seven to nine holes, related to the shehnai.


lyrical dissonance

lyrical dissonance (plural lyrical dissonances)

(music) A mismatch between the emotions of the lyrics and the music of a song


churchical

en-adj

churchical (comparative more churchical, superlative most churchical)

more churchical (comparative)
most churchical (superlative)

/ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃɪk(ə)l/

/ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃɪk(ə)l/

To sum up, Rastafarian music has developed from the traditional chanting and drumming of predominantly "churchical" type to more "secular kind of projection of philosophy, not just confined to chanting but to popular, vernacular, more funky style … and of more general awareness of what is happening in different kinds of relationships."

1984, Yoshiko S. Nagashima, Rastafarian Music in Contemporary Jamaica: A Study of Socioreligious Music of the Rastafarian Movement in Jamaica (Performance in Culture; no. 3), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia & Africa, →OCLC, page 94:

In Rasta music there is the churchical (religious music) and the earthical (music for entertainment). In chants and churchical songs, the accent of the lifeline ridim is on the first and third beat, while in earthical songs the accent is on the second and fourth beat.

2000, Stephen Foehr, Jamaican Warriors: Reggae, Roots & Culture, London: Sanctuary Publ., →ISBN, page 95:

In the mid-'90s, the murder of his [Buju Banton's] running mate Panhead [i.e., Pan Head, pseudonym of Anthony Johnson] forced him to question the gun talk and controversy that made him famous; the change of heart audible in the slower, churchical rhythms of his third LP 'Til Shiloh broke the mold a second time, in a sense making peace with [Bob] Marley's restless ghost.

2006, The Fader, New York, N.Y.: Fader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 164:

The chants and "churchical" beats of traditional Nyabhingi drumming played a vital role in Rastafarian Grounations, communal celebrations notable for their ital feasts, ganja smoking, and mystical theologizing.

2011, Erik Davis, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica, Portland, Or.: YETI Books, Verse Chorus Press, →ISBN, page 245:

(chiefly Jamaica, music) Belonging to a style of Reggae music that reflects a spiritual sensibility.


red-billed

(Of a bird species) having a red coloured beak or bill.


aulochrome

(music) A modern woodwind instrument consisting of two soprano saxophones that can be played either separately or together.


heartical

heartical (comparative more heartical, superlative most heartical)

more heartical (comparative)
most heartical (superlative)

Rasta music is sometimes played for what the brethren term "heartical" reasons (strictly for pleasure).

1998, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell, William David Spencer, Adrian Anthony McFarlane, Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, →ISBN, page 242:

The other type of music is called “heartical” and refers to songs which carry social commentary.

2003, Dick Hebdige, Cut `n' Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music, →ISBN, page 40:

Churchical adopts the reggae beat to all hymns; heartical is the regular dance music. The latter form is used by the Twelve Tribes of Israel in their dance sessions.

2010, Leonard Barrett, The Rastafarians, →ISBN, page 267:

(music) Pertaining to Rastafarian music that is secular in nature, intended for dancing or political commentary.


cottage piano

He walked across the room to the shabby old cottage piano.

1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 8:


band camp

(education, music) An intensive program organised for primary, secondary or tertiary students of instrumental music, typically lasting a number of weeks and integrating rehearsals with social activities.


hartree

Named after the British physicist Douglas Hartree (1897–1958).

The atomic unit of energy, defined as 2R_∞hc, where R_∞ is the Rydberg constant, h is the Planck constant and c is the speed of light.


blockflute

From the fipple plug ("block") that constricts the mount of the instrument + flute. Corresponds to German Blockflöte, Dutch blokfluit, Danish blokfløjte, Swedish blockflöjt, Icelandic blokkflauta, Norwegian blokkfløyte.

(music) A musical instrument of the woodwind family constructed using a fipple plug; a recorder.


string quintet

(music) a group of five musicians playing string instruments, usually adding a second viola or cello to the string quartet's formation.

(music) a musical composition for such a group


chirl

en-verb

chirl (third-person singular simple present chirls, present participle chirling, simple past and past participle chirled)

chirls (present singular third-person)
chirling (participle present)
chirled (participle past)
chirled (past)

(Scotland, intransitive) To emit a low sound; to warble.


chowtal

From Hindi चौताल (cautāl, literally “four-rhythm”).

bor

Trital, ektal and chowtal are not characteristic of the traditional tribal and folk-music of India.

1968, Sudhibhushan Bhattacharya, Ethno-musicology and India, page 41:

The style of rendering the sur and the rhythmic composition of the tal (typical being 'chowtal' and 'brahmatal'), its resonance and 'gayaki', etc. are very close to the chanting of the Vedic sutras by a group of specially trained Vedic pandits.

Figure 8 shows the multi polygonal representation of chowtal.

2009 May, Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Muhd Mahbub Rashid, “Mathematical and geometrical analysis and representation of north indian musical rhythms based on multi polygonal model”, in 2009 International Conference on Signal Processing Systems:

A four-beat rhythmic pattern used in Hindustani classical music.


neoprogressive

(music) Being or relating to a form of progressive rock that was briefly popular in the 1980s, characterized by deeply emotional content, often delivered via dramatic lyrics and on-stage theatricality.


theoretical key

en-noun

theoretical key (plural theoretical keys)

G-sharp major is a theoretical key with 8 sharps; in 12-tone equal temperament it is enharmonic to A-flat major, but in most other tunings, such as 31-tone equal temperament, it is a distinct key.

(music theory) A key signature which has eight or more sharps or seven flats. In music using twelve-tone equal temperament its pitch coincides with its enharmonic, while in most other equal temperament tunings most enharmonic equivalences between key signatures regularly go beyond simple sharps and flats.


township music

(music) Any of various music genres created by Bantu peoples living in poor, racially-segregated urban areas of South Africa ("townships") during the 20th century.


quadruple whole note

quadruple whole note (plural quadruple whole notes)

(US, music) A note with twice or thrice the value of a double whole note.


choleglobin

A bile pigment that is a breakdown product of hemoglobin


wine-dark

The traditional translation/calque of Ancient Greek οἶνοψ (oînops), equivalent to wine + dark.

He had that type of countenance which dim tradition was already beginning to assign to the Son of Man—the perfectly oval face, the waved and wine-dark hair, the glowing complexion, the eyes whose depths seemed to be lighted by some holy spiritual flame within—of Him who had been fairer than the children of men.

2015, Frederic W. Farrar, Gathering Clouds: A Tale of The Days of Saint Chrysostom:

The Trojan War was probably real enough, but the myths of Aeneas crossing the wine-dark Mediterranean to lay the foundations of the Roman Empire in Italy, and Brutus's subsequent journey to fill Britain with descendants of the Trojans, are myths.

2015, Anthony Adolph, Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British, page 200:

wine-dark:

(literary, especially of the sea) Resembling the dark color (or perhaps other properties) of wine.


zhaleika

Zhaleika playing
I cherish the zhaleika given to me by the self-taught craftsman as a precious souvenir.

We played music for hours: Polish folk songs; church music; and three songs I'd improbably adapted for our zhaleikas, "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" because my singing along to that record had caused more groans in our house than anything else, and "Your Song" and "Hey Jude."
[…]
 She put my instrument in my hands and she extracted her own zhaleika from the bag she'd carried mine in.

2011, Meg Waite Clayton, The Four Ms. Bradwells, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, pages 141 and 185:

A Russian (or broader Slavic) wind instrument with one or two pipes.


blue-grey

en-adj

blue-grey (comparative more blue-grey, superlative most blue-grey)

more blue-grey (comparative)
most blue-grey (superlative)


gray-blue

gray-blue (comparative more gray-blue, superlative most gray-blue)

more gray-blue (comparative)
most gray-blue (superlative)


grey-blue

grey-blue (comparative more grey-blue, superlative most grey-blue)

more grey-blue (comparative)
most grey-blue (superlative)

Alternative form of gray-blue: Synonym of blue-gray


blue-gray

blue-gray (comparative more blue-gray, superlative most blue-gray)

more blue-gray (comparative)
most blue-gray (superlative)

blue-gray:

аҡбуҙ

color — see also the hyponyms listed above

күк

can mean 'blue', 'gray', 'blue-gray', or 'green'

åskblå (dark gray-blue, literally "thunder[storm sky] color")

blunket

a color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray


ghungroo

Every dancer cherishes her ghungroos, and no wonder. From the time she first learnt to use her feet in step, they have been with her in ever-increasing numbers, and now, at the height of her artistic maturity, two-hundred or more adorn her ankles where once there had been only ten or twenty.

2021, “On the Ghungroos: Ankle-bells of Servitude, and Mastery”, in Donovan Roebert, editor, Essays on Classical Indian Dance, CRC Press, →ISBN:

His other meagre finds include a lone ghungroo—a tiny silver orb that once belonged on an anklet—and what might have once been a copper nose pin.

2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 158:

(music) A small metallic bell, usually part of a set strung together and worn on an anklet, especially by classical Indian dancers.


bunkerer

The JTF security report signed by Briagier General Lawrence Ngubare, former commander of the task force further stated that BoyLoaf was bent on becoming an illegal oil bunkerer and is known to have a violent disposition.

2008, Newswatch: Nigeria's Weekly Magazine, page 15:

Bunkering is comprised of a complex network of engineers, welders, intelligence and armed security operatives, boat and ship captains, pumpers, handlers, and traders. One bunkerer describes the process as “pipeline vandalization to steal refined or crude oil products and transportation of these products in various vessels such as barges and tankers to sell locally and internationally”.

2015, Hannah Appel, Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas, page 79:


light wave

electromagnetic wave
electromagnetic wave

(physics) An electromagnetic wave of light.


rhythmogram

(music) A graphical representation of the changing rhythms of a piece of music.


scandicus

(music) A neume representing an ascending set of three tones.


bipunctum

(music) a neume denoting either a single tone, either elongated or rearticulated.


climacus

From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase”), from κλίνω (klínō, “I lean, slant”).

der

A neume denoting a descending set of three tones.


torculus

From Latin torculus, from torqueō (“I twist, wind”).

(music) A neume denoting a set of three tones which first rise from the original tone, then fall.


takiltu

(historical) An Akkadian blue or purple dye.


disco music

A genre of dance music that was mostly popular in the 1970s that is often characterized by its elements of soul music along with a strong Latin-American inspired beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights that also features a melodic sound with a regular bass beat that was intended mainly for dancing at discotheques.


Wagner tuba

The instrument was originally created for Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

(music) A brass instrument that combines tonal elements of the French horn and the trombone.


bass bar

(lutherie) A narrow length of wood affixed to, or occasionally carved from, the inside of the top plate of a violin-family instrument.


mesteso

From Spanish mestizo. Doublet of mestizo.

(music) A genre of Spanish music that features a blend of contemporary and classical sounds


endbutton

(lutherie) In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.

bouton

wooden plug in the end of the instrument


wolf eliminator

en-noun

wolf eliminator (plural wolf eliminators)

A device which serves to counteract an instrument's wolf note.


enfouldered

From en- + + Old French fouldre (“lightning”), from Latin fulgur (“lightning”), fulgere (“to flash”), + -ed.

With foul enfouldred smoke and flashing fire

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach
Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform,
Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

That there should be no proper conductor guiding it towards a source of light that might really aid us to see, makes the whole piece appear shaded by error, ombres chinoises; but shadow though there be, it does nothing to remove the enfouldered crack from the wall, and the charred signature such power always leaves behind.

2001, Walter Tonetto, Exiled in Language:


art pop

(music, pop) A genre of popular music influenced by pop art's integration of high and low culture.


wooden fish

wooden fish (plural wooden fishes or wooden fish)

wooden fishes (plural)
wooden fish (plural)

zh-l

木魚／木鱼 (mùyú)

A wooden percussion instrument played by monks and lay people in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition in China, Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries.


light hour

(astronomy, physics) A unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one hour


Epi

The reviews I read to day were just product brochures. I'd like to know how that $4,000 Gibby is different and better than a $1,200 Gibby and a $400 Epi. Teach me something!

2006 October 22, Mark Nahra, “Re: Most magazine guitar reviews suck”, in alt.guitar (Usenet):


big room house

(music) A subgenre of house music consisting of minimal synthesizer drops and percussion with bass heavy kicks, one of the most popular electronic dance genres since the mid-2010s.


Epiphone

(music) A guitar manufactured by Epiphone, now a subsidiary of Gibson.


vude

Fiji's homespun reggae acts tour the region, while domestic audiences also devour the vude genre, which emerged in the 1980s and combines the regionally popular guitar/ukulele string-band style with disco and country elements.

2006 November 25, Christie Eliezer, “Islands of Sound: Foundation Plots Sea Change for Inventive Indigenous Music”, in Billboard, volume 118, number 47, page 15:

(music) A musical genre emerged in Fiji in the 1980s, combining island music with disco and country elements.


mensur

This is a slightly odd mensur for instruments tuned to a modern pitch of A-440 as it is slightly short for an instrument in F, which would be more comfortable at 65 cm or 66 cm, and it is too long for an instrument in G, which is more comfortable at 60cm or 61cm.

2005, Daniel Larson, “A Set of Vihuelas: Matching Tone for Polyphonic Music”, in Lute Society of America Quarterly, volume 40, number 2, Lexington, Virginia: Lute Society of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

In general gut tensions run toward the high end for a given mensur at a diameter equal to an equivalent nylon string, which would seem consistent with the 20% or so higher density of gut.

2000 December 28, Dan O'Mara [username], “Gut vs Nylon string tension”, in rec.music.makers.bowed-strings (Usenet):

His works show reasonably accurate workmanship, but at times his violin-making production is characterised by models that are too personal, leading to the size of the mensur being too long.

2002, Roberto Codazzi, Cinzia Manfredini, editors, La liuteria lombarda del '900, Twentieth century Lombard violin making, Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150:

(lutherie) The measurement of the length of the vibrating string from the nut to the bridge.


soramimi

Borrowed from Japanese 空耳 (soramimi, “lit. air ear; mishearing; deafness”).

bor

A homophonic translation of a song lyric, typically humorous; a mondegreen.


submotif

(music) A motif forming part of a larger motif.


Istrian scale

(music) A distinctive six-tone scale used in Istrian and Kvarnerian folk music.


radioadaptive

Relating to the effect of small doses of radiation on cells that protect them from later, larger doses


radiobinding

The binding of radioisotopes (to a substrate)


chemoradiosensitivity

sensitivity to damage by chemicals or by ionizing radiation


chemoradioresistance

resistance to damage by chemicals or by ionizing radiation


Yammy

(informal) A product manufactured by Yamaha Corporation, such as a piano, guitar or motorcycle.


vitrain

en-noun

vitrain (countable and uncountable, plural vitrains)

The caking behaviour of vitrain and clarain could be improved after the coal has been picked out.

1996, T.S. Golosinski, Guo Yuguang, Mining Science and Technology 1996, →ISBN, page 396:

In order to measure relatively accurately the activation energy of coal, and to exclude the disturbance from coal samples, the hand-picked banded vitrains in bright coal are adopted as experimental samples (Table 1).

1997, Yang Qi, Geology of Fossil Fuels: Coal, →ISBN, page 149:

Thus, it may be concluded that a lower viscosity of plastic vitrain grains facilitates pores to grow and coalesce and grains to stick to one another to create intergrain pores.

2012, C.E. Snape, Composition, Geochemistry and Conversion of Oil Shales, →ISBN, page 491:

A constituent of banded bituminous coal consisting of a horizontal glossy band of friable material.


diskery

Deal for network star Henry Morgan to sign a Majestic contract for two albums has fallen thru, with Paul Baron, newly-named artist and repertoire topper at the diskery, kiboshing a deal that virtually had been consummated between his predecessors and Music Corporation of America (MCA).

1947 September 6, “Paul Baron Nixes 2 Morgan Albums”, in Joseph G. Csida, editor, The Billboard: The World’s Foremost Amusement Weekly, volume 59, number 35, Cincinnati, Oh.: Roger S. Littleford Jr.; William D. Littleford, →OCLC, page 14, column 3:

An upcoming problem to be thrashed out at a meeting of diskery reps and execs of the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA), is the degree of AFRA's jurisdictional claim over singers on records. AFRA has claimed the jurisdiction generally, and for some months has been having exploratory talks with diskeries.

1950 October 28, “Diskers, AFRA Puzzle Singer Jurisdictions”, in Billboard, page 13:

This week, diskery and phono manufacturer spokesmen sounded tempering notes of caution as they discussed the many problems still to be licked in developing truly compatible stereo with fidelity standards equal to those now available in monaural disks.

1957 December 30, Ren Grevatt, “Concensus Tabs Stereo Disk Still in Research Stage: Diskery and Phono Toppers Sound Tempering Notes of Caution”, in Billboard, page 11:

(dated, music) A phonograph-record manufacturer; a shop that sells phonograph records.


discaire

From English disc (“vinyl gramophone or phonograph record”) + French -aire (suffix forming adjectives or nouns), modelled after disquaire. Disc is derived from French disque (“disk, record”), from Latin discus (“discus, quoit; dish shaped like a discus; disc of a sundial”), from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disc, quoit; dish; round mirror; reliquary”), probably of Pre-Greek origin.

der

[I]n the winter he used to go out dancing at five in the morning, and why? Because then the crowd had gone, the discaire was no longer playing for them, but for his friends, and that was the best dancing.

1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 1, in Dancer from the Dance: […] (A Plume Book), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, published October 1986, →ISBN, page 25:

There was no one word to describe the variegated music we spent the night with. It was distinct enough for the discaire to begin a set quietly, build gradually to a climax, then let you down to start all over again. Do you remember that vanished custom?

1978 December, Andrew Holleran, “Dark Disco: A Lament”, in Christopher Street, volume 3, number 5, New York, N.Y.: That New Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC; republished in Michael Denneny, Charles Ortleb, and Thomas Steele, editors, The Christopher Street Reader, New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, 1983 (1984 printing), →ISBN, page 74:

While the selection of tracks was a pretty accurate reflection of what was being played in discotheques at the time— [...] the "mixing" was pretty appalling (the songs just scrunched together as if they were on a crowded bus and there was no DJ credited on the album, not that any self-respecting discaire would have wanted to be associated with it) despite the claim that the album was "tight and distinctive … professional and polished … never contrived or stylized."

2005, Peter Shapiro, Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco, New York, N.Y.: Faber and Faber, →ISBN:

The DJ booth was built in a glass elevator so the discaires could play for four different dancefloors at once, gliding from one to another as they selected their tunes.

2006, Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, “Balearic Bryllyant”, in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey, updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Headline Book Publishing, →ISBN:

The most famous club, Le Discotheque (French for "The Record Library"), opened on rue de la Huchette [in Paris] in 1941. With a discaire, or disc jockey, spinning jazz records all night long, the main attraction was dancing. Thumbing their noses at the occupying Reich, Le Discotheque and other underground clubs opened their doors to blacks and homosexuals, the same groups that would first embrace disco music 30 years later.

2007, “Why Disco Happened”, in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Music (Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader), e-book edition, Ashland, Or.: Portable Press/The Bathroom Readers’ Institute, Printers Row Publishing Group, published November 2011, →ISBN:

A third, a discaire, also died; "That's absolutely the last disco funeral I'll ever attend," my friend reported. "You do know, don't you, that they played all his greatest tapes at the funeral."

2014, Edmund White, “New York City”, in States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 275:

(dance, music) Alternative spelling of disquaire (“disc jockey”)


radioiodinate

en-verb

radioiodinate (third-person singular simple present radioiodinates, present participle radioiodinating, simple past and past participle radioiodinated)

radioiodinates (present singular third-person)
radioiodinating (participle present)
radioiodinated (participle past)
radioiodinated (past)

From radio- + iodinate, after radioiodine.

(transitive, chemistry, medicine) To treat (a substance) with radioiodine.


cresolphthalein

en-noun

cresolphthalein (countable and uncountable, plural cresolphthaleins)

(organic chemistry) A derivative of phenolphthalein used as a pH indicator


radiosequencing

(genetics) sequencing with the aid of a radioactive tracer


ones and twos

During hip hop's early days when the DJ was busy with his ones and twos, MCs (masters of ceremony, microphone controllers, or movers of the crowd) spoke over the records by invoking the spirit of the party gods.

2012, Ebony A. Utley, Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta's God, page 11:


firebell

(firefighting) An alarm bell sounded in the event of a fire.


nakir

Alternative form of naker (“type of drum”)


chalk-white

en-adj

chalk-white (comparative more chalk-white, superlative most chalk-white)

more chalk-white (comparative)
most chalk-white (superlative)

I burn, burn like a wicker cabinet / chalk-white and oh so frail / I see our time has gotten stale

1998, Eve 6 (lyrics and music), “Inside Out”, in Eve 6:

Six utterly chalk-white people were cramped together beneath the parasol, sharing the little circle of shadow it was casting down onto the moderately sundrenched beach.


dodecuple scale

en-noun

dodecuple scale (plural dodecuple scales)

twelve-tone technique
twelve-tone technique

(music) chromatic scale, using twelve-tone technique


carboxyeosin

carboxyeosin (countable and uncountable, plural carboxyeosins)

(organic chemistry) Any carboxy derivative of eosin, but especially 5(6)-carboxyeosin whose diacetate is used as a fluorescent dye


choir organ

(music) One of the departments of a cathedral organ, standing behind the great organ, having its tones less powerful, and more suited to accompanying the voice.


Christmas light

Christmas light (plural Christmas lights)

(chiefly in the plural) One of the electric lights used at Christmas to decorate a tree, house, etc.

luz de Natal (usually in the plural "luzes de Natal")

solas Nollaige (usually in the plural "solais Nollaige")

luz de Navidad (usually in the plural "luces de Navidad")


ppongjjak

From Korean 뽕짝 (ppongjjak), of onomatopoeic origin.

Synonym of trot (“Korean pop music genre”)


Lombard rhythm

(music) A syncopated musical rhythm in which a short accented note is followed by a longer one, reversing the pattern normally associated with dotted notes.


langspiel

(music) A traditional Icelandic or Shetlandian drone zither.


crushed strawberry

(art) A pinkish-red colour like strawberries that have been crushed.


hip hopera

(music) A rap or hip hop musical piece or album which takes an operatic form.


rock opera

(music, theater) A collection of rock songs which tell a story, often released as a single album.


micromelody

(music) A melody based on a scale whose intervals are less that a semitone (used to investigate vocal accuracy)


smithy coal

smithy coal (countable and uncountable, plural smithy coals)

A kind of small coal much used by smiths.


sordono

(music) An old musical instrument of the oboe family, resembling the bombard.


barbershopper

(informal) A performer of barbershop music.


compound time

(music) Time in which each bar is made up of two or more simple bars.


raboday

(music) A genre of drum music from Haiti


combolin

Blend of combination + mandolin? One of the early combolins was a combined mandolin and guitar.

(music) Any of a series of unusual musical instruments combining various other instruments, first created in the 1960s.


fast-evolving luminous transient

fast-evolving luminous transient (plural fast-evolving luminous transients)

fast-evolving luminous transients (plural)

(astronomy) A type of weak supernova whose luminous shell cools quickly and within days goes dark


saroh

(music, obsolete) An Indian musical instrument with three metal strings, played with a bow.


expression stop

expression stop (plural expression stops)

(music) A stop in a harmonium by which the performer can regulate the air to produce expression.


sing small

en-verb

sing small (third-person singular simple present sings small, present participle singing small, simple past sang small, past participle sung small)

sings small (present singular third-person)
singing small (participle present)
sang small (past)
sung small (participle past)
sing small (infinitive)

From sing + small (“in a small fashion; (obsolete) in a low tone, softly”).

[A]re not moſt of our kings being vvhen they ſing ſmall and fine, after a puling maner, ſaluted Apolloes for their muſicke: […]

1603, Plutarch, “How a Man may Discerne a Flatterer from a Friend”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, pages 93–94:

I marvell'd ſhe ſung ſo ſmall indeed, being no Maid.

c. 1623–1624 (date written), Tho[mas] Middleton, “Women Beware Women. A Tragedy”, in Two New Playes. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1657, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 180:

The Poet culls that dainty flowers; he saileth on the floods; / Leaps with the fountain's ecstacy,^([sic – meaning ecstasy]) and dwelleth in the woods; / Launcheth his barque of hopeful song, nor dreads the roaring fall; / Singing with lark and nightingale, though oft he singeth small.

1870, J. P. Robson, “The Poet’s Photograph”, in Evangeline: Or, The Spirit of Progress; […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland: […] J. M. Carr, […], →OCLC, page 236:


comma of Didymus

en-noun

comma of Didymus (plural commas of Didymus)

So called because it is the amount by which Didymus corrected the Pythagorean major third to a just major third.


syntonic comma

(music) A small comma-type interval between two musical notes, equal to the frequency ratio 81:80 (= 1.0125) or around 21.51 cents. It often manifests itself as the difference between the Pythagorean major third of 81:64 and the classic major third of 5:4, between the Pythagorean minor third of 32:27 and the classic minor third of 6:5, and between the "major whole tone" of 9:8 and "minor whole tone" of 10:9.


hardcore techno

electronic dance music
electronic dance music

(music) A genre of electronic dance music originating from the gabber rave scene.


passing note

(music) A smaller note marking a tone introduced between two others, to effect a smooth passage from the one to the other, but forming no essential part of the harmony.


wind chime

(music, percussion) A singular tubular bell.


symphonion

(music, historical) A combination of pianoforte and harmonium, the precursor of the orchestrion.


shepherd's flute

(music) A flageolet or similar instrument.


panmelodion

(music, historical) A 19th-century keyboard instrument whose tone is produced by wheels rubbing on metal bars.


radiophosphorylated

phosphorylated by means of a compound of radiophosphorus


semibituminous

semibituminous coal


radioiododestannylation

(organic chemistry) An iododestannylation reaction using radioiodine


fireground

(firefighting) The site where a fire occurs or has recently occurred.


splice edit

(music) A similar technique in which two takes are merged, sometimes with digital modification in order to make the transition seamless.


trigonon

From Ancient Greek τρῐ́γωνον (trígōnon). Doublet of trigon and trigone.

The early Greek Trigonon, like its progenitor the Egyptian harp, appears to have had no fore-pillar; small Trigona were, however, made at some subsequent but unascertained time, with a fore-pilar and a very small sound box.

1873, W. K. Sullivan, “Introduction”, in On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, volume I, page cccclxxxviii:

Soft Lydian pipes, trigonons, silvery flutes, / Blend in the lamp-lit air with gentle lutes.

1894, Mansfield Lovell Hillhouse, “XIX. The Merchant’s Banquet”, in Iola, the Senator’s Daughter: A Story of Ancient Rome (about 24 B.C.), New York, London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, page 175:

To say that they represent a height of achievement which the poetry of our own time has not surpassed is just as ridiculous as to say that Aeschylus’ band of lyres, trigonons and sambukas made better music than the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1915, The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, volume 46, page 153, column 2:

Among other musical instruments in the north Pontic area of which we know from archaeological evidence, are the horns, shell-trumpets, trigonons (harps), Pan-pipes, lutes, and zithers.

1959, George Vernadsky, The Origins of Russia, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 157:

On the other hand, there exists a statuette of a dancing-girl, no doubt dating from the year 5000, a prelude to an abundant choreographic and ritual representation of male and female musicians, and even soldiers, beating a rhythm with tambourines, crotals, (a sort of castanet), sistrums or their hands, to the tunes of slanting (circa 4000) or double flutes, harps (3 to 20 strings), lutes (4 strings) trigonons (harps with 22 strings, held on the knees) and zithers (of Syrian importation circa 2000).

Other contemporary representations of trigona show considerable variation in the angle at which the strings are set and in the position of the hands.

Of the two varieties of closed trigona, one is essentially like the open trigonon but with a post running parallel to the strings from the tip of the base arm to the tip of the soundbox.

1999, Thomas J. Mathiesen, “III. Musical instruments”, “Chordophones”, “Psalteria”, “Trigonon and sambuke”, in Appolo’s Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 277:

It seems to me also that to invoke the gods with certain kinds of music and melody, for instance, with both hymns and auloi or Egyptian trigona, shows that we are eager for them to hear our prayers with a gentle temper.

1999, Jon Solomon, “Ptolemy Harmonics”, “Book III”, in Mnemosyne: Bibliotheca Classica Batava, Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, published 2000, →ISBN, page 151:

(music, historical) A small triangular harp.


photoreversibility

(physical chemistry) The condition of being photoreversible


dubdown

dubdown (countable and uncountable, plural dubdowns)

In this application, the loudspeaker monitor is the standard by which recordings are judged—from initial microphone placement, through mixing and dubdown, to final mastering.

1971, Exclusively Yours - Volume 24, page 59:

Full bandwidth digitally recorded images don't pick up random analog noise during dubdown, but they can add "quantizing noise" (detectable rings separating areas of different luminance intensities).

(music) The process of remixing audio tracks to use fewer tracks.

You certainly should have the final dubdowns of your playbacks from the sixteen track to the three-stripe 35mm.

1980, Milton Lustig, Music editing for motion pictures, page 78:

It's true that “Barnyard” only exists as a poor second generation copy, a dubdown to mono recorded onto one track of an otherwise blank 8-track/one inch tape.

2012, Todd Van Buskirk, Purple Chick, →ISBN, page 272:


kafi

From Western Panjabi کافی (kāfī), ultimately from Arabic.

A genre of Punjabi and Sindhi classical music.


combination pedal

combination pedal (plural combination pedals)

(music) A pedal controlling several organ stops at once.


downpicked

en-adj

downpicked (comparative more downpicked, superlative most downpicked)

more downpicked (comparative)
most downpicked (superlative)

Grinding speed metal rampages like "Disasterpiece" and "New Abortion," and the hyperspeed, furiously downpicked punk-style riffing of "Everything Ends" are no doubt harder, faster and, at least lyrically, sicker.

2002, Jeff Kitts, Brad Tolinski, Guitar World Presents Nu-metal, →ISBN, page 21:

The Young Marble Giants song "Final Day" could serve as Minor Angels's soundtrack: a single sci-fi theremin note hovers over a quavering organ, muted, downpicked guitar, and a plain but lovely female voice that sings about the final day, the world lighting up for the last time only to fall into endless night "for the people who never had a say."

2005, Review of Contemporary Fiction, page 141:

There's awesome speed, the revolutionary (for the time) blending of Brit-metal bombast— think Priest, Maiden, and especially Diamond Head—with the street-level aggression of hardcore punk, and the fierce technical edge of the music, best exemplified by Hetfield's aggressively downpicked, heavily palm-muted rhythm-guitar attack.

2013, Martin Popoff, Metallica: The Complete Illustrated History, →ISBN:


downpicking

You will know whether you want a tone ring, and if so, what kind, and whether or not you want a resonator (most people would rather do downpicking and two-finger picking on banjos without resonators, although this feeling is far from universal — my own all-round "working" banjo is a thirty-year-old Vega with resonator).

1968, Art Rosenbaum, Old-time Mountain Banjo, page 84:

What I noticed was that Charlie did a lot of downpicking, like Eddie Durham, and he wasn't playing any modern chords.

2009, The Ghosts of Harlem: Sessions with Jazz Legends:

Pete Seegerin fact credits Crisp with teaching him to “frail,” but apparently it was Stu Jamieson who was Crisp's major disciple and the main revivalist exponent of the downpicking style through the 1940s.

2015, Ken Perlman, Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer Banjo, →ISBN, page 175:

(music) The technique of playing a stringed instrument with a plectrum using all downward strokes.


downpick

Outstanding selections include a knuckle-busting medley ("Chilly Winds-Old Joe Clark-Salt River- Johnny Bring the Jug Around the Hill") played in the bright, aggressive downpick clawhammer style of Wade Ward.

2003, The Old-time Herald: A Magazine Dedicated to Old-time Music, page 226:

Use all downpicks to get a more hard-driving sound.

2006, Dan Fox, Alfred's Teach Yourself to Read Music for Guitar, →ISBN, page 25:

When there is an even number of notes, you must begin with the downpick and then alternate each note.

2015, John La Barbera, Traditional Southern Italian Mandolin and Fiddle, →ISBN, page 20:

(music) A downward stroke with a plectrum on a stringed instrument; downstroke.


downpick

en-verb

downpick (third-person singular simple present downpicks, present participle downpicking, simple past and past participle downpicked)

downpicks (present singular third-person)
downpicking (participle present)
downpicked (participle past)
downpicked (past)

“When I was playing with James Hetfield in Metallica,” Dave says, “we pretty much decided that rhythm guitar should be downpicking when it comes to pedaling, until it's so fast that you can't downpick anymore..."

1992, Musician - Issues 165-170, page 100:

Well, that is only a half-truth, as Mr. Steele also downpicked, that is, trailed.

1999, Old Time Herald - Volume 7, page 52:

(music) To play a stringed instrument by using all downpicks.


echoi

From Ancient Greek ἦχοι (êkhoi, “sounds”), plural of ἦχος (êkhos).

(music) One of a set of eight modes, octoechoi, of music in Byzantine music. It selects the chant style or genre.


rondoletto

en-noun

rondoletto (plural rondolettos or rondoletti)

rondolettos (plural)
rondoletti (plural)


isoeffective

Radiotherapy treatment options can be assessed by comparing the isoeffective dose of each.

Of a dose of radiation: Having the same biological effect.


synthetist

(music) A musician that plays the synthesizer.


coal train

Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.

1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:

Out in Ohio on test on level, tangent track a single 2-6-6-6 once moved a 160-car, 14.083-ton coal train to 19 miles per hour from a standing start in 1 mile and 6 minutes, and had it rolling 29 miles per hour within a total elapsed time of 11 minutes.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 61:

One of the biggest flows of traffic through Trent consists of coal trains from Toton to Castle Donington or Willington power stations (on the Castle Donington branch) or to the Birmingham area, with two or three trains to Chaddesden.

1961 March, Warren Smith, “The problems of train regulation - a study of operation at Trent”, in Trains Illustrated, page 169:

(rail transport) a freight train which carries a single commodity: coal.


coal pusher

The M-1's had roller bearings on all axles, high-speed Franklin boosters, steam lines, tender coal pushers - all the gadgets one could ask.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 71:

(rail transport) a device used to push coal forward in the tender of a steam locomotive.


millennial whoop

millennial whoop (plural millennial whoops)

Coined in 2016 by the musician Patrick Metzger.

(music) A repeated motif of three notes consisting of a fifth, followed by a third, and returning to the fifth, extremely common in pop music of the early 21st century.


radiendocrinator

(medicine, historical) A case of radium intended to be worn against the skin, claimed to treat various ailments (but actually dangerously radioactive).


low-sulphur

(British spelling) having a low sulphur content, fuel in particular.


deep-mouthed

en-adj

deep-mouthed (comparative more deep-mouthed, superlative most deep-mouthed)

more deep-mouthed (comparative)
most deep-mouthed (superlative)

a deep-mouthed hound; the deep-mouthed sea


bunkerage

18 October 2017, Italy busts gang smuggling Zawia diesel to Sicily in Libya Herald
Gazzettinonline reported that the smuggled diesel was in fact low grade and normally used as bunkerage for ships.

(nautical) Oil or coal used for the engine of a vessel


algorave

In London, the music veers between the sublime and the cacophonic; at the end, one audience member—and she's entirely serious—shouts: “Play something good!” Algorave is messy, but that's partly the point: these are not the pristine algorithms that fetch your search results on Google; they're built live, for a crowd.

2013 August 29, Tom Chesire, “Hacking meets clubbing with the ‘algorave’”, in Wired UK, →ISSN:

An event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often improvised on the spot.


kudyapi

From Hiligaynon kudyapi and Cebuano kudyapi.


polyphant

(music, historical) An old musical instrument, resembling a lute, but strung with wire.


penorcon

(music, historical) An old musical instrument of the cittern family, with nine pairs of strings.


Kafir harp

(music) A traditional four- or five-stringed arched harp used by the Kafirs in the Nuristan province of Afghanistan.


shanto

(Guyana) A form of Guyanese music, related to calypso and mento.


head

Father Charles goes down and ends battle

(music, mnemonic) A mnemonic for the order of sharps: F C G D A E B.


guarania

Borrowed from Spanish guarania, from guaraní, from Guaraní abá guariní (“man of war”).

(music) A style of music from Paraguay, generally in a minor key.


radiouptake

The uptake of radiolabelled material by tissue


Halligan bar

Named after its designer, New York City firefighter Hugh Halligan, in 1948.

A firefighter's multipurpose tool for breaking down doors, etc., having a claw (or fork), a blade, and a tapered pick.


sourdeline

(music, historical) A kind of small bagpipe.


wobble bass

(music) An extended bass note, characteristic of dubstep music, which is manipulated rhythmically to create an oscillating sound.


deexcitate

en-verb

deexcitate (third-person singular simple present deexcitates, present participle deexcitating, simple past and past participle deexcitated)

deexcitates (present singular third-person)
deexcitating (participle present)
deexcitated (participle past)
deexcitated (past)

[…] thus, automatically, cold compound systems have been selected, which deexcitate by evaporation of one or two neutrons.

2002, William C. McHarris, Exotic Nuclear Spectroscopy:

(physics, physical chemistry, quantum mechanics, intransitive, of a particle or a molecule) Alternative form of deexcite


violining

(music) The use of a volume swell, a musical crescendo commonly associated with the electric guitar.


snot-green

en-adj

snot-green (comparative more snot-green, superlative most snot-green)

more snot-green (comparative)
most snot-green (superlative)

snot-green:

Of a yellowish-green colour like that of mucus.


bioillumination

illumination by means of bioluminescence


sidegirl

An assortment of sidemen (and sidegirls) provide a varied accompaniment on mouth-harp, dulcimer, fiddle, and, of course, guitar.

Playing lead alto saxophone and doubling on soprano, Patterson stands to announce each tune in a set, beats off the tempo and then credits each "sidegirl" at song's end for the solos performed.

1980 November 15, Dave Dexter Jr., “Billboard”, in All-Female Big Band Rolls In L.A., volume 92, number 46:

The sidegirls paraded into their place beside the gangplank;

2016, Mike Shepherd, Kris Longknife: Bold, →ISBN, page 218:

(music) A female soloist playing with a band or group of which she is not a regular member.


sesquitertia

en-noun

sesquitertia (countable and uncountable, plural sesquitertias)

(music, obsolete) A perfect fourth, an interval having the ratio of 1 to 1⅓, or 3 to 4.


coordinome

(music) A punched tape based metronome for polymetric music.


selenophile

From seleno- + -phile, literally “moon-lover”.

con

Accordingly, it seemed probable that by having X in Scheme 1 as SeR, then a selenophile such as copper(1) would promote the C-C bond formation as in Scheme 2 to yield the required systems.

1991 January 1, Craig J. Hawker, Athena Philippides, Alan R. Battersby, “Selenomethylpyrroles: Their Use for Synthesis of Dipyrrylmethanes (Dipyrrins), Tripyranes and Bilanes”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, →DOI:

The poisonvetches are obligate selenophiles and the selenium content accounts for their chief toxic effects.

1998 March 23, Robert Alan Lewis, Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology, CRC-Press, →ISBN, page 127:

(botany, chemistry) Something which tends to absorb selenium.

A selenophile, that's me. Are you a selenophile or a heliophile? A lunar lover or a solar lover?

2008 September 2, Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), →ISBN, page 303:

Good news for sky watchers and selenophiles, tonight’s full moon is set to be the biggest and brightest of the year, according to NASA.

2019 February 19, Wilder Davies, “Tonight's Super Snow Moon Will Be the Biggest Supermoon of 2019. Here's How to Watch”, in Time:

The celestial phenomenon is a must-see event for selenophiles hoping to see a total lunar eclipse and May’s full moon.

2022 May 13, Joe Mario Pedersen, “Blood Flower Moon blossoms over Orlando during total lunar eclipse & full moon”, in Orlando Sentinel:

(informal) A person who is fond of or interested in the Moon.


The Call of South Africa

Calque of Afrikaans Die Stem van Suid-Afrika

calque

a former national anthem of South Africa, created during the 1920s and used from the 1930s to the 1990s.


Die Stem

From Afrikaans Die Stem (literally “the voice”).

borrowed

Babenia refused to sing Die Stem, South Africa's former national anthem, despite then President Nelson Mandela requesting people to do.

2009, “'Natoo' says no to Die Stem”, in Post, South Africa, archived from the original on 2018-09-19:

2009, “The Day PW Made Us Sing "Die Stem" at Kruger's Swiss House”, in Cape Times, South Africa, archived from the original on 2018-09-19:

The manager of the London Cup hockey tournament must apologise for playing apartheid anthem "Die Stem" before South Africa's clash with Great Britain, SA Hockey Association chief executive Marissa Langeni said on Wednesday.

2012, “'Apologise' for Die Stem”, in Sport24, South Africa:

"Die Stem" is South Africa's old anthem, the one used during the apartheid era.

2012, Robert Siegel, “The Road To London Is Paved With Olympic Gaffes”, in All Things Considered, NPR:

Steve Hofmeyr, "Die Stem" and living in the past

2014, Dawjee Haji Mohamed, “Steve Hofmeyr, 'Die Stem' and living in the past”, in Mail & Guardian, South Africa:

EFF "missing the plot" on Die Stem

2015, “EFF 'missing the plot' on Die Stem”, in HeraldLIVE, South Africa:

Why I Choose to Sing Die Stem

2015, “Why I Choose to Sing Die Stem”, in The Sunday Independent, South Africa, archived from the original on 2018-09-19:

2017, Alexis Haden, “EFF calls for removal of Die Stem on 120th anniversary of Enoch Sontonga's death”, in The South African:

A GROUP of Stellenbosch University (SU) alumni and students have been banned from the institution's Huis Visser residency after being involved in the singing of Die Stem at an old boys' reunion.

2018, “Old Boys Ban for Die Stem”, in Cape Times, South Africa, archived from the original on 2018-09-19:

The Call of South Africa
The Call of South Africa


ray of sunshine

en-noun

ray of sunshine (plural rays of sunshine)


apartheid anthem

Compound of apartheid + anthem. From Afrikaans apartheid (“separateness”), and it being the national anthem of a state that practiced it.

BARBARA: Along with the apartheid anthem.

2007, Anthony Peckham, INVICTUS (aka "The Human Factor"):

2012, Chris Chance, “Great Britain apologizes to South Africa for playing apartheid anthem before field hockey game”, in Yahoo! Sports:


unisonoric

(music) In an accordion producing the same note whatever the direction of bellows movement.


bisonoric

(music) In an accordion: producing a different note when the bellows are compressed or expanded.


neep lantern

A third was a two-headed spectre, the upper one being a fiery head, that bore a suspicious resemblance to a neep lantern, and his body, or what should have been his body, was wrapped in a while sheet.

1873, Thomas Watson, Homely Pearls at Random Strung, page 270:

A neep lantern bobbing by the end of the palisade, near the Smith house, where a clutch of bairns stood in the footpath waiting for him.

2003, Heather Spears, The Flourish, page 347:

He always finished first in the annual Hallowe'en neep lantern competition though it was meant to be done by the pupils themselves.

2013, David M Addison, Confessions of a Banffshire Loon, page 288:

(Scotland) A lantern made from a hollowed-out turnip, traditionally used as decoration at Halloween.


solarist

(derogatory) One who tends to overstate the role of the sun in explaining the roots of mythology.


psychill

Special thanks to my guitars for helping me regain movement, momentum, flow, and energy during each break, and thanks to musicians/artists Robert Rich and Shulman, the compilation album Space Forming, and all the wonderful psybient/psychill electronic artists as well as all the wide variety of music I listen to... all music to write a dissertation with!

2015, Jason Beers, From Entheogens to Psychotropics: A Metabletic Analysis of Plant-Human Alienation in Chemical Intervention (PhD dissertation, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology):

There will be six stages with diverse music for any state you might be in. From techno, psychedelic, deep house, jazz, ambient, live bands, cumbia, psychill and many other subgenres only the DJs know, relaxation and zen are in order here.

2016 June 19, Oana Vasiliu, “Top festivals in Romania to check out in July”, in (Romania) Business Review:

As at the previous edition, the event will have six stages featuring diverse music styles: techno, psychedelic, deep house, jazz, ambient, live bands, cumbia, psychill and many other subgenres.

2017 July 12, “Music festival kicks off in scenic Romania village”, in Romania Insider:

(music) A subgenre of psytrance that is influenced by reggae and psybient.


psybient

Indeed, by the early 2000s, the music and cultures of psytrance (from psybient to darkpsy) was becoming entheogenically liminalised, a popular state of affairs from Europe to Israel, America to Australia and Brazil to South Africa.

2010, Graham St John, The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance, →ISBN, page 224:

Psybient artists include Shpongle, Entheogenic (2), Evan Bluetech, Yaniv Shulman, Kickbong, and some of the works of Younger Brother.

Shpongle was formed in 1996 and has been described by Posford as “like nothing you’ve ever heard before.” They have been noted for pioneering the “psybient” genre, which combines world music, such as Ram’s infamous flute, with synth-based electronic mixing, making a sound that has been a strong influence for so many groups since Shpongle’s inception.

2014 May 9, Isabel McCan, “Shpongle: One-Time Show with Live Band at Red Rocks”, in 303 Magazine:

The worldwide annual psychedelic festival for yoga, music, dance and nature lovers is again hosted lecturers, coaches, psychologists and healers along with 130 yoga workshops, seances and lectures, as well as a Psybient music festival with over 140 music artists and DJs performing on three stages.

2018 August 16, “Samsara Festival: In Nature We Escape – Photo Album!”, in Hungary Today:

(music) A musical genre that is a fusion of psytrance and ambient.


madrigalistic

en-adj

madrigalistic (comparative more madrigalistic, superlative most madrigalistic)

more madrigalistic (comparative)
most madrigalistic (superlative)

Although madrigalistic and grammatical silences appear throughout Handel's cantata repertory, disruptive silence that cuts through the score and temporarily halts the flow of speech and music is a particular feature of his English set.

2004, Ellen T. Harris, Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas:


motswako

(South Africa, Botswana) A subgenre of hip hop music popular in Southern Africa.


pantaleon

(music, historical) A very large dulcimer, invented around 1700.


oboe di caccia

(historical) An obsolete tenor oboe, or rather tenor bassoon.


BTS

(music) Initialism of Bangtan Sonyeondan (“a South Korean boy band”).


radioreactivity

The relative reactivity of cells or organisms to any form of radiation, but especially to the harmful effects of ionizing radiation


radioimmunoimaging

(immunology) immunoimaging by means of radiotracers


floating light

(historical) A ship, bearing a light, moored on sunken rocks to warn sailors of danger.


blackster

From Middle English blakestere, blakestre, equivalent to black + -ster.

A "blackster" (a fan of heavy metal, the satanic kind) isn't going to join a stuffed animal club, of course, but he does listen to music and try to translate the words of the songs.

2001, The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press:

Among different opinions expressed about Dani at different times by different people, a few stood out as most common. Dani Filth was a heartless sadistic bastard with a penchant for cheap mystique. Dani Filth was a typical dumb blackster.

2006, Nikki 666, Special Friend, page 37:

(music, slang, rare) A fan of black metal music.


nuclear fuel

For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.

2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:

A radioactive material, such as uranium, used to power a nuclear reactor.


freeburn

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. 2 showed that rate-of-rise or rate-anticipating thermal detectors spaced as little as two feet or six feet directly above a 2½-square-foot alcohol fire, after a freeburn of 30 seconds, either did not detect at all within 30 seconds or, did so between 28 and 30 seconds.

1975, Fire Journal - Volume 69, page 55:

These time intervals, commencing with the completion of the incipient time period, were then referenced on a freeburn fire growth curve generated by Lee for this type fuel array, and the associated convective heat release rate determined.

1989, Takao Wakamatsu, Fire safety science: proceedings of the second international symposium:

Envirogel was only tested against two scenarios due to agent distribution system problems. Freeburns of each fire scenario and the individual component fires were also evaluated.

1998, Ned R. Keltner, Norman J. Alvares, S. J. Grayson, Very Large-scale Fires, →ISBN, page 158:

In general, the scatters for all the above measurements were within those observed in freeburn crib fires.

2008, Paul A. Croce, Yibing Xin, “Scale Modeling of Quasi-Steady Wood Crib Fires in Enclosures”, in Progress in Scale Modeling, →ISBN, page 121:


audiospatial

Relating to spatial aspects of sound, especially relating to the ability to sense the direction that a sound is coming from


dream trance

An early subgenre of trance music typically based around melodies played on acoustic instruments and combined with electronic beats.


tridecimal

(arithmetic, music) Of a number, expressed in base thirteen.


oil company

After the war, the invaluable experience gained with mass production of the TP engines saw Davey Paxman in a favourable position to supply such units almost "off the shelf", a facility found to be of great value by oil companies engaged in well-drilling; [...].

1964 May, R. K. Evans, “The Ventura—Paxman's high-speed engine”, in Modern Railways, page 328:

A company that is dedicated to trade or exploitation of petroleum/oil. (This entry is a translation hub.)

öljy-yhtiö

a company which trades, extracts or processes petroleum or oil


groovebox

From groove + box, originally used by Roland Corporation to refer to its MC-303, released in 1996.

(music) A self-contained instrument for the production of live, loop-based electronic music with a high degree of improvisation.


hardbass

From Russian хардба́сс (xardbáss), in turn from English hard bass.

A subgenre of electronic music from Russia, characterized by heavy basslines and a fast tempo.

хардба́сс

a subgenre of electronic music from Russia


radiopanspermia

(astrophysics) The propagation of life through space by way of scattering via radiation pressure of stars, or being launched into space from the source habitats via electrical and magnetic currents in the exospheres of those habitable worlds.


low-sock

A pair of cymbals, positioned at ankle height, operated by a pedal.


sock cymbal

A pair of cymbals that can be closed or opened by means of a mechanism, such as a pedal mechanism.


organ harmonium

en-noun

organ harmonium (plural organ harmoniums)

(music) A large harmonium used instead of a pipe organ.


hick-hop

A genre that combines country and hip-hop, often equated with country rap.


circle pit

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-circle pit.wav

From circle + pit, modelled after mosh pit.

Call Me in the Morning also fuses old and new, referencing the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black while swimming in Auto-Tune. The circle pit then swirls anew for Open the Till, which features a yellable chorus and more gnomic Skinnerisms. "You make ends meet," he [Mike Skinner] notes, "then they move the ends."

2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-08:

(dance, music) A dance at a concert where participants mosh in a circular path, leaving the centre clear.


head orgasm

autonomous sensory meridian response#English

(informal) Synonym of autonomous sensory meridian response


autonomous sensory meridian response

autonomous sensory meridian response (countable and uncountable, plural autonomous sensory meridian responses)

autonomous sensory meridian responses (plural)

A frisson characterized by a tingling sensation on the skin that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine.

resposta sensorial meridiana autònoma

autonominė sensorinė meridianinė reakcija

samoistna odpowiedź meridianów czuciowych

avtonomnaja sensornaja meridionalʹnaja reakcija

автономная сенсорная меридиональная реакция

avtonomna sensorna merydionalʹna reakcija

автономна сенсорна меридіональна реакція


sulfoindocyanine

sulfoindocyanine (countable and uncountable, plural sulfoindocyanines)

(organic chemistry) A C-sulfate derivative of indocyanine that is a fluorescent dye


sopranoist

Someone who plays the soprano saxophone.


freak folk

The wide array of artists that grew out of the freak folk or indie folk scene of the early 2000s were indeed as much inspired by the Anthology as they were by the loose musical forms of experimental jazz and avant-garde music and Induist and […]

2016, Ross Hair, Thomas Ruys Smith, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: America changed through music, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 250:

psychedelic folk
psychedelic folk#English


reciting note

(music) In chanting, a note on which several syllables are sung.


fall silent

en-verb

fall silent (third-person singular simple present falls silent, present participle falling silent, simple past and past participle fell silent)

falls silent (present singular third-person)
falling silent (participle present)
fell silent (participle past)
fell silent (past)

I've seen the stars fall silent from your eyes / All the sights that I have seen

2003, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “The Great Beyond”, in In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003:


headjoint

(music) The joint of a flute containing the mouthpiece


iron blue

Any of several blue pigments, but especially Prussian blue or Turnbull's blue.


stockhorn

(music) An old musical instrument, the pibgorn.


Moon buggy

Blend of Moon + dune buggy.
Coined in analogy to the dune buggy, for a vehicle roving on the sands of the Moon.

A manned wheeled vehicle used to traverse the surface of Earth's Moon. It was used in Apollo 15, 16 and 17.


reed knife

(music) A metal implement for adjusting the tuning wires in a pipe organ.


tarcrete

en-noun

tarcrete (usually uncountable, plural tarcretes)

A kind of tarry soil near mineral oil sources formed from oil and soot droplets with sand or gravel, precluding plant growth.


Oilgate

A South African political scandal in which the petrol company Imvume Holdings was accused of paying millions of state money to the ruling African National Congress shortly before elections.


Bonney's blue

Named after British gynaecological surgeon Victor Bonney (1872–1953).

(gynaecology) An antiseptic solution used to sterilise and stain the vagina, cervix and surrounding skin during gynaecological procedures, and therefore reducing postoperative infection.


bullerengue

Borrowed from Spanish bullerengue, a blend of bulla (“racket”) + arenga (“sermon”).

blend

(music) An African-styled music style and dance from Panama.


MPC

... so you'll have keyboard and all of that stuff within it, because really I didn't wanna lug all of that stuff... on my MPC and I got that organ sample from Sea Saint Studios

2019 January 29, Lance Scott Walker, Houston Rap Tapes: An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 128:

Music Production Center
w:Music Production Center

(music) Initialism of Music Production Center.


Köchel number

Named after Austrian musicologist Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800–1877).

named-after

Every Mozart piece has a Köchel number. The Fourth Concerto is K. 218, and the highest Köchel number is 626. I was spending my summer with a Köchel number.

2014, Virginia Euwer Wolff, The Mozart Season, Square Fish, →ISBN, page 78:

A number assigned to each work composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.


power electronics

(music) A subgenre of industrial music with low-end drones, harsh loops, and screamed or distorted vocals.


radiocystitis

(pathology) A form of cystitis caused by ionising radiation (typically by radiotherapy)


dansyl amide

(organic chemistry) The fluorescent dye 5-(dimethylamino)naphthalene-1-sulfonamide


tenor trombone

(music) The Most common type of trombone which has a fundamental note of B♭ and is usually treated as a non-transposing instrument.


non-transposing

Violin is a non-transposing instrument

(music) a musical instrument that is written in a the same pitch to how it sounds.


pitchpipe

The lady with the spiritual bent blew a pitchpipe and the choir members began singing lustily, “Oh, Jesus, walk by my side, / Then I always, always be satisfied.”

a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN:

(music) A small pipe used to set the pitch for an instrument, song etc.


Lisztomania

From Liszt + -o- + -mania, named after Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886). Coined as German Lisztomanie by Heinrich Heine in 1844.

Lisztomania swept across Europe. Despite their obvious sensationalism, Liszt's concerts in the 1840s established the format of our modern-day piano recital. He was the first to play entire programs from memory (not reading from music).

1996, Craig M. Wright, Listening to Music, →ISBN:

A Lisztomania / Think less but see it grow / Like a ride, like a riot, oh / Not easily offended

2009, “Lisztomania”, in Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, performed by Phoenix:

There's always been some of this about — classical pianist and composer Franz Liszt acquired fanatical followers, who stalked him and became so overbearing at his concerts that the phrase Lisztomania was invented to describe it.

2011, Bunny Ultramod, The Bold and The Terrible: How To Become a Superstar With Just an IPad, $60, and Two Weeks, Bunny Ultramod, →ISBN:

The cultural impact of Lisztomania continues to take various forms today. In 1975, Ken Russell directed a film called Lisztomania, starring The Who's Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt.

2011 October 22, “How Franz Liszt Became The World's First Rock Star”, in npr music:

The poet Heinrich Heine dubbed this phenomenon 'Lisztomania'. Listening to the rampaging symphonic gestures of Mazeppa (1840) or the fireworks of the Paganini Études (1840), one can easily imagine the frenzied emotions of the […]

2014, Jon Paxman, A Chronology Of Western Classical Music 1600-2000, Omnibus Press, →ISBN:

(historical) A feverish enthusiasm for the music of Franz Liszt.


wine-blue

en-adj

wine-blue (comparative more wine-blue, superlative most wine-blue)

more wine-blue (comparative)
most wine-blue (superlative)

We trudge on then by the moor path, to the high brow of the wine-blue purple-dark hill, and fling ourselves down there, and dream there and see there a grasshopper, carting back to his home in the hollow, a straw.

1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:

He'd love to sip a pint in a decent pub who never will, though down by wineblue Black Sea . . . ah!

1984, Christopher Pollnitz, Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems, page 175:

Beside the wineblue sea, magnificent silver tanks big as a mountain gleamed in the sun.

1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 255:

And the sea, as you row, allures like a woman:
Rose at dawn, wineblue at noon, gold at dusk,
More of a drug than lotos-syrup.

1997, Jeffrey Carson, Poems, 1974-1996, page 7:

The sun that coloured Lissa's wineblue depths
That tanned Porta Pia's red pikes
And chased into the dungeons the creep of the Vatican […]

2002, Astrid Sæther, Ibsen and the Arts, page 26:

Now I have come in as you see, with my ship and companions sailing over the wine-blue water to men of alien language.

wine-blue:

Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.


wine-blue

en-noun

wine-blue (countable and uncountable, plural wine-blues)

Mulder and Maumené have given it the name of œnocyan or wine-blue, as its color, when neutral, is blue; the red color of genuine wines is due to the presence of tartaric and acetic acid acting upon the wine-blue.

1885, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 26, page 676:

In this modestly sized canvas you find the wonderful blue colour of the Limfjord — a colour Homer called “wineblue” (oinops).

1964, The Limfjord, Its Towns and People, page 153:


synthdance

The opening cut, "Got to Get Up," is a fresh, buoyant, and tasty an example of current black synthdance music as you'll hear anywhere.

1983, Voice of Youth Advocates: VOYA, volume 6, page 159:

Swing Out Sister, a synthdance trio fronted by the marvellously idiosynchratic^([sic]) Corinne Drewery ("My mother keeps hedgehogs in the kitchen — I was always stumbling over their cages," she says), released their Phonogram debut, […]

(rare) electronic dance music employing a synthesizer


Nachschlag

(music) A kind of ornament consisting of one or two additional notes after a note or trill.


inner voice

(music) A vocal part intermediate between the highest and the lowest.


dugazon

(music) A singer who has a voice intermediate between soprano and mezzo-soprano


string organ

(music) A reed organ having a graduated set of vibrators or free reeds connected by rods which cause the vibration of corresponding wires or strings stretched over a sounding board.


olivegreen

en-adj

olivegreen (comparative more olivegreen, superlative most olivegreen)

more olivegreen (comparative)
most olivegreen (superlative)


pops orchestra

I was minding my own business, tending pampered animals at my veterinary clinic, and looking forward to joining friends at an alfresco performance of the local Pops orchestra that evening.

2001, Lori Stone, The Black Squall, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 1:

Steven was admittedly an unashamed romantic, but he thought the idea of naming the concerts should be consigned to the summertime pops orchestra.

2005, Robert Bartlett, The Salem Syndrome, Nelson Publishing&Marketing, →ISBN, page 111:

When you hear a jazz trio or pops orchestra play the music of a song you know—provided that it is played in more or less the way you are familiar with—the words come back to you unbidden.

2014, David Jenness, Donald Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950–2000, Routledge, →ISBN:

(music) An orchestra that plays popular music and show tunes as well as well-known classical works.


ondist

(music) A person who played a ondes martenot


ondes martenot

From French ondes Martenot (literally “Martenot waves”), named after Maurice Martenot (1898–1980).

named-after

Coordinate term: theremin

The score calls for three ondes Martenot, which are arranged spatially on the left, the right and in front of the conductor.

2017, Christopher Dingle, Messiaen's Final Works, Routledge, →ISBN, page 34:

After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.

2018, Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 465:

(music) An early electric keyboard instrument.


gospelypso

A musical genre combining calypso with gospel or a Christian message.


open tuning

en-noun

open tuning (countable and uncountable, plural open tunings)

(music) A tuning of a guitar or other stringed instrument in which the strings sound a chord when strummed together without being pressed against the fretboard.


gronk

en-verb

gronk (third-person singular simple present gronks, present participle gronking, simple past and past participle gronked)

gronks (present singular third-person)
gronking (participle present)
gronked (participle past)
gronked (past)

A raven gronked along the timber-covered ridge line, and a cool breeze swept down from the snow-covered peaks.

2001, G. Stewart Nash, The Last Three Hundred Miles, page 96:

Juan Bautista handed the raven off to a perch—it gronked and protested—and took a seat on his couch.

2007, Kage Baker, The Graveyard Game, page 34:

The rush of water behind me, the soft drip from the trees, ravens gronking far off—these were the only sounds I heard.

2017, Robert Michael Pyle, Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide, unnumbered page:


organ-point

(music) A note sustained through a series of chords, although only in harmony with the first and last.


a battuta

(music) With the beat. A direction to resume strict time after the free declamation of a singer; chiefly used in recitatives. It is equivalent to a tempo.


chup

The blackbirds and robins and and^([sic]) tits and finches shout at each other, chups and warbles and chirrups that, loosely translated, mean “Fancy a shag?”, “Get OFF my land” or “I’ve got a great big tonker.”

2015 April 16, Richard P. Grant, “Sex and the successful fundraiser”, in The Guardian:

A short, loud, and urgent sound, usually of a bird.


chup

chup (third-person singular simple present chups, present participle chupping, simple past and past participle chupped)

chups (present singular third-person)
chupping (participle present)
chupped (participle past)
chupped (past)

(intransitive, of a bird) To make a short, loud, and urgent sound.


sightening

A colour used temporarily to enable a calico-printer to judge the pattern.


china blue

en-noun

china blue (countable and uncountable, plural china blues)

china blue:


breve rest

(music) A rest that has the same duration as a breve


coal plant

A power station using coal as its energy source.


warlight

Methinks I see their sabers as they flashed in battle's sun, I seem to see the warlight fall on bayonet and gun; Before the farm-house gate I stand and listen for their tread, Forgetting that the mighty camps are guarded by the dead;

1896, Loomis' Musical and Masonic Journal - Volumes 30-31, page 221:

The issues of life and death have by the lurid warlight been forced upon our attention.

1917, Catherine Gasquoine Hartley, Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes, page 32:

We passed industrial buildings, their lights muted, faint as stars, as if we were in a time capsule of the war years when blackouts and curfews had been in effect, when there was just warlight and only blind barges were allowed to move along this stretch of river.

2018, Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, →ISBN, page 81:

The light produced by acts of war, such as exploding bombs.


semianthracite

semianthracite (countable and uncountable, plural semianthracites)

coal that is intermediate between anthracite and semibituminous coal.


precompositionally

(music) Prior to composing music; relating to precomposition.


precomposition

precomposition (countable and uncountable, plural precompositions)

(music) Decisions made regarding a piece of music before composition begins, such as which key or which genre to use.


submix

(sound recording) A mix of sounds from several instruments of the same type, prior to mixing them with further elements of the soundtrack.


submix

en-verb

submix (third-person singular simple present submixes, present participle submixing, simple past and past participle submixed)

submixes (present singular third-person)
submixing (participle present)
submixed (participle past)
submixed (past)

(sound recording) To mix sounds from several instruments of the same type, prior to mixing them with further elements of the soundtrack.


skramz

Originally coined to distinguish first-wave screamo from mall screamo. Possibly from screams.

It is also true that Evangelical churches can create like-minded youth; Jamie, involved with a London-based emo band, explained how the band members attend the same Evangelical Anglican church in south London, whose youth pastor introduced them to the obscure skramz sub-subgenre of hardcore that influences their sound.

2017, Ibrahim Abraham, Evangelical Youth Culture: Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures:


sublow

(music) Grime music with very low bass frequencies.


BACH

(music) A motif consisting of the notes B flat, A, C, B natural.


holy unblack metal

The part holy unblack is a calque of Norwegian Bokmål hellig usvart, after Hellig Usvart, a record by Horde.

calque

(music) A subgenre of black metal with Christian lyrics.


underpoint

In larger dimensions, recurrent formulas, articulation, and phrase structure become important, and it may be possible to abstract various general curve types by studying the location of peaks and underpoints.

1966, Bonnie C. Kowall, Perspectives in music education, source - Book 3, page 151:

Since his dynamic changes follow the development of the intensity of the music, they often indicate the direction of emotional movement to the climax or underpoints.

In skillful fugues the heightening tension of contrapuntal development finds confirmation in peaks and underpoints, dissonance quotient, and expansion or compression of tessitura, as well as other less direct sources of stress such as the largely intellectual pleasure of increasingly sophisticated and arcane manipulations.

1992, Jan LaRue -, Guidelines for Style Analysis, page 177:

(music) The lowest intensity point of a diminuendo that is followed by an increase in volume and intensity.


energy vampire

(informal) A device or appliance that uses electricity even while switched off.


photon sphere

The radius of the photon sphere is also the lower bound for any stable orbit.

For a Schwarzschild (non-spinning) black hole, the radius of the photon sphere is 1.5 times the Schwarzschild radius.

The redshift of light leaking outward from the photon sphere is #x5C;sqrt#x7B;3#x7D;-1#x3D;0.732. All light rays approaching a black hole closer than #x5C;sqrt#x7B;3#x7D; times the radius of the photon sphere spiral inwards and are captured (see Figure 13.5).

2000, Edward Harrison, Cosmology, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 250:

For a Kerr black hole though, one that has spin, the situation is different for the orbits near the black hole. In particular, there are two photon spheres, in contrast with the one photon sphere around a stationary Schwarzschild black hole. The outermost sphere is for photons that are orbiting oppositely to the direction of rotation of the black hole (the ones we say are on retrograde orbits). Inside this is the photon sphere for photons travelling in the same sense around the black hole as it is rotating (on prograde orbits). For a very slowly rotating black hole that isn't so very different from a Schwarzschild black hole, these two photon spheres are very nearly co-spatial. For black holes of increasing spin, these surfaces are increasingly further apart.

2015, Katherine Blundell, Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 44:

2017, Lori Gardi, The Mandelbrot Set as a Quasi-Black Hole, David de Hilster (editor), John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society: 2017 Proceedings, John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society, page 65,
The lesser known region just outside the black hole is referred to as the photon sphere (outer grey region in Figure 9). The photon sphere is a region of space just outside the black hole where photons are forced to travel in complex orbits due to the extreme curvature of space within this region [2]. […] Finally, the boundary that exactly separates the black hole from the photon sphere is referred to as the event horizon (white circle surrounding the black region in Figure 9).

The region inside the photon sphere has a diameter of 1.5× Schwarzschild diameter D(s), but due to the curvature, this region gets magnified to 2.6× D(s).

2022, Wouter Schmitz, Understanding Relativity, Springer, page 277:

(of a black hole) A spherical limit around a black hole at such distance that any photon meeting it tangentially is constrained to travel in a circular orbit; (more loosely) the region between this limit and the event horizon.

sphère de photons

spherical boundary surrounding a black hole in which photons travel in circular orbits


Bismarck brown

en-noun

Bismarck brown (countable and uncountable, plural Bismarck browns)

Either of a pair of brown dyes, Bismarck brown R and Bismarck brown Y.


kosmische musik

Borrowed from German kosmische Musik (“cosmic music”), used in German in the liner notes of the album Alpha Centauri (1971).

It began out of nothing, was given a joke name, and became the pop influence du jour: krautrock, kosmische musik, elektronische musik, or whatever you wish to call German experimental rock from the 1970s.

2010 March 30, Jon Savage, “Elektronische musik: a guide to krautrock”, in The Guardian:

Another term commonly used for some German music from the 1970s is kosmische Musik (“cosmic music”). It was introduced by Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser to market krautrock artists like Ash-Ra Tempel, Tangerine Dream, and Klaus Schulze. Although rejected by many artists associated with it, kosmische Musik remains a somewhat useful term to describe the synthesizer-heavy, meditative anti-rock of some West German musicians of the 1970s.

2016, Ulrich Adelt, Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 11:

(music) West German experimental space rock from the 1970s.


double-stop

en-verb

double-stop (third-person singular simple present double-stops, present participle double-stopping, simple past and past participle double-stopped)

double-stops (present singular third-person)
double-stopping (participle present)
double-stopped (participle past)
double-stopped (past)

Divisi in the orchestra greatly reduces the need for double-stopping, per se, in this form of string playing.

1957, Clifford A. Cook, String teaching and some related topics, page 39:

Some Greek musicians have used open tunings on the violin and double-stopped the strings to produce a drone.

2003, Aline Scott-Maxwell, John Whiteoak, Currency companion to music and dance in Australia, page 69:

The whole movement gives the soloist an opportunity for hair-raising virtuosity, from rapid arpeggios and spectral harmonics to languid parallel sixths, double-stopped trills and, in the trio, a stratospheric cantabile, again on harmonics.

2008, Paolo Petrocelli, William Walton and the Violin Concerto in England between 1900 and 1940:

(music) to play on two stopped strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.


double-stop

There has been some question concerning whether the downbeat of m. 19 should be a triple-stop with the open D string as the bottom note or a double-stop with the open A string as the bottom note.

1999, Joel Lester, Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance, →ISBN:

You can play a double-stop on adjacent strings or on nonadjacent strings (by skipping strings).

2012, Mark Phillips, Jon Chappell, Guitar For Dummies, →ISBN, page 96:

If you're a beginner player, you can always choose not to play a double-stop and instead play just the top note.

2014, Michael John Sanchez, Fiddle For Dummies, →ISBN:

(music) a chord or combination composed of two notes played on separate strings simultaneously.


three-quarter time

en-noun

three-quarter time (countable and uncountable, plural three-quarter times)

(music) A time signature of a composition indicating three quarter notes or their equivalent in each measure.


burn in

en-verb

burn in (third-person singular simple present burns in, present participle burning in, simple past and past participle burned in or burnt in)

burns in (present singular third-person)
burning in (participle present)
burned in (participle past)
burned in (past)
burnt in (participle past)
burnt in (past)


Chapman stick

From the surname of its inventor, Emmett Chapman.

(music) A form of electric guitar, resembling a wide fretboard with 8, 10 or 12 strings.


radiovirotherapy

en-noun

radiovirotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural radiovirotherapies)

A form of radiotherapy in which a radioisotope is delivered via an oncolytic virus


post-metal

(music) A genre of modern music influenced by heavy metal but often focusing more on atmosphere.


chamber pop

The use of string and horn sections helped add rich layers to the band's theatrical fusion of indie rock and chamber pop, with the heart of the album residing in the opening quartet of songs sharing the title 'Neighborhood'.

2011, Colin Larkin, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Omnibus Press, →ISBN, page 2210:

(music) A subgenre of rock music which places increased emphasis on melody, often incorporating vocal harmonies and bowed string instruments.


solar-powered

Network Rail and Avanti West Coast have installed a solar-powered 'electronic scarecrow' to deter birds from entering Longsight depot in Manchester.

2020 September 23, “Network News: Longsight depot uses 'scarecrow'”, in Rail, page 26:

Of an engine, vehicle, device, etc., deriving its energy from sunlight through the use of solar cells.


azovan blue

(organic chemistry) Synonym of Evans blue


plugg

From "Plug!", earlier "Plugs!", the producer tag used by the members of BeatPluggz collective, who recorded the vocals for the tag.

(music) A laid-back subgenre of trap music.


versette

(music) Alternative form of verset (“very short organ interlude or prelude”)