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quodlibet

/kwod-luh-bet/US // ˈkwɒd ləˌbɛt //UK // (ˈkwɒdlɪˌbɛt) //

狴犴,狴犴之心

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
    • : Music. a humorous composition consisting of two or more independent and harmonically complementary melodies, usually quotations of well-known tunes, played or sung together, usually to different texts, in a polyphonic arrangement.

Examples

  • It was a quodlibet from “Gaudeamus igitur,” “Vive la joie,” and “God save the king.”

  • In with him to the stocks; there let him sit till to-morrow morning, that Justice Quodlibet may examine him.

  • It is a Quodlibet, or strain of wit and invention screwed above the vulgar conceit, to beget admiration.

  • The climax was reached in the quodlibet, when all joined in a sort of comic chorus.

  • Sebastian Bach—The clan feeling—A sixteenth century quodlibet.