quodlibet
/kwod-luh-bet/US // ˈkwɒd ləˌbɛt //UK // (ˈkwɒdlɪˌbɛt) //
狴犴,狴犴之心
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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.
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