| 词汇 | harp |
| 释义 | harp noun[ C ] uk /hɑːp/ us /hɑːrp/ a large, wooden musical instrument with many strings that you play with the fingers竖琴 IvonneW/iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Musical instruments accordion acoustically aerophone alphorn alto drum kit drum machine drumbeat drumhead drumroll oud over-pedal panpipes paradiddle pedal steel tuned tuning fork tuning peg ukulele unpitched harp | American Dictionaryharp noun[ C/U ] us/hɑrp/ harpnoun[C/U] (INSTRUMENT)a usually large, triangle-shaped musical instrument with strings stretched across it that you pluck (= pull with the fingers) to play notes, or this type of instrument generally harp verb[ Ialways+ adv/prep ] us/hɑrp/ harpverb[I always + adv/prep] (REPEAT)to repeat or esp. complain about something many times in an annoying way: I’m tired of these people who keep harping on what is wrong with the country. Examples of harpharp However, like writing music for the harp or timpani, one simply cannot ignore the acoustics of the instrument. He wishes to reclaim the harp, now neglected and desolate, and to restore its power. His enumeration combines instruments that modern organology would classify as lyres (lyra, barbiton) and as harps (psalterium, pectis). The harps became integrated with the natural environment. Of course, it was precisely this deceptive quality of sensory information that contemporary moral and natural philosophers harped upon. The harps and their music seem almost invisible and suspended in time, like a cobweb. We may also have undersampled species that forage or roost primarily within the forest canopy, because our harp-trapping was largely restricted to the understorey. The equivalent in version 4, on the other hand, retains the folk-like orchestration of its previous section and adds a harp. These are joined in the second movement by a harp, in the third additionally by a celesta. Here in this interior wilderness, the harps could find the sensitive quiet needed to record them. Another prominent feature is the orchestral quasi-concertino of marimba, harp and cimbalom, which imbues the work with sonorities reminiscent of folk music. This can be observed with the harp glissando and unison soprano voice examples, because in both cases many sustaining harmonic partials overlap temporally. He is accompanied, as before, by the harp, but now the harp's heavenly associations are reinforced by a halo of shimmering strings. The scoring of this work is mainly for woodwind and brass, including euphonium plus harp, accordion, piano doubling synthesiser, percussion and electric guitar. A prominent role for harps was underlined by their positioning in front of the orchestra, at the conductor's feet. See all examples of harp These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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