Middle English Dictionary Entry
modulāciǒun n.
Entry Info
| Forms | modulāciǒun n. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Harmony; the act of singing or making music; also, a song or melody.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)333b/a : Simphonia is temperate modulacioun [L modulationis] acording in sownes hiȝ and lowȝ, and by þis armony hiȝe vois acordeþ so þat if oon discordeþ, it grieueþ þe hieryng.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Te Deum (Hrl 2255)26 : Te chorus glorious of apostolate, Memorial make, modulacioun..Evir Ioyng gaudent in Iubilacioun.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Mary Oign.(Dc 114)178/14 : Oure lorde..fillid..hir lippys wiþ modulacyone; Soþly, she bygan to synge wiþ an hye voys and clere.
- c1450 De CMulieribus (Add 10304)698 : Of armonye and swete modulacion Instrumentys she found first be kunnynge.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Sion Arc.L.40.2/E.43)25/29 : By this modulacion or song, Vndrestondynge remembrid the high laudes of Dame Feyth.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)131/6 : If þou yeue pes, if þou infounde holy ioy, þe soule of þy seruaunt shal be ful of modulacion [L modulatione] and deuoute in þy preisyng.