diapasonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /daɪəˈpeɪzən/, /daɪəˈpeɪsən/
• 韻: -eɪzən, -eɪsən

名詞

diapason (複数形 diapasons)

1. (music) The musical octave.
   • 1818, Iamblichus; Thomas Taylor (translator), Life of Pythagoras‎^[1], page 328:

     2 to 1, which is a duple ratio, forms the [symphony] diapason

2. (by extension, literary) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.

   Synonyms: range, scope

   • 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961:

     the piano curving like a conch, corollas giving out diapasons of light […]

3. (music) A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.
4. A harmonious outpouring of sound.
   • 1961, Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case:

     he could hear nothing except the rattle of the crickets and the swelling diapason of the frogs […]

派生語

Further reading

• Octave on Wikipedia.
• Flue pipe#Diapasons on Wikipedia.
• Organ stop#Classifications of stops on Wikipedia.