Crossword clues for theremin
theremin
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1927, from the name of its inventor, Russian engineer Léon Thérémin (1896-1993).
Wiktionary
n. An electronic musical instrument that generates sound of varying pitch and volume depending on the proximity of the musician’s hands to two antennae mounted on the instrument.
Wikipedia
The theremin ( ; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the Westernized name of its Russian inventor, Léon Theremin (Термéн), who patented the device in 1928.
The instrument's controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas that sense the relative position of the thereminist's hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude ( volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.
The theremin was used in movie soundtracks such as Miklós Rózsa's Spellbound, The Lost Weekend, and Bernard Herrmann's The Day the Earth Stood Still. It has also been used in theme songs for television shows such as the ITV drama Midsomer Murders. This has led to its association with eerie situations. Theremins are also used in concert music (especially avant-garde and 20th- and 21st-century new music) and in popular music genres such as rock.
Usage examples of "theremin".
None could ignore the music, although they were only barely aware of the nasal tenor whose voice was not strong enough to carry over the wild squeals of the theremin and the twang of a dozen steel-stringed guitars.
As the panes lightened, the musicians blew windy music from their tuned sea-shells, and above the marine chords, the weaving voice of a theremin dipped and climbed.
The melody on the theremin halted abruptly, then plunged into the soaring theme of the Victory Anthem.
With inductance surfaces like a theremin, with frets like a guitar, down one side were short drones as on a sitar.
With a sigh he slung the battered theremin over his sloping shoulders.
And in steerage, his fingers wandering across the keyboard of the battered theremin, no one noticed that the man they called the Minstrel had lit his cigarette without a match.
It wavered like the cry of a theremin in an old horror movie, and just as it began to fade, a much louder answering cry came from Gaiten, where the Raggedy Man had taken his new, larger flock.
Tome was pretty fair on machine arts, such as the theremin, so that was not a good risk.
They could find themselves doing esthetic figures while parachuting from a simulated airplane tower, or playing a concert on a theremin, or doing sculpture by means of selective detonations of incendiary plastic.
He was good on the theremin, Stile was quite ready to challenge in the classification of music, but would prefer a normal, hand-powered instrument.
RMI is fully the equal of these progenitors, creating moody, shimmering soundscapes with moog, theremin, and more conventional instruments.
Charlie to make Scarface jealous, fondled a theremin dressed as an alien, and fallen asleep at the foot of a door to nowhere.
The moved on through the clutter of theremins, encore banjoes, and hurdy-gurdies.
They were performing a sort of minuet, graceful beyond words, to an accompaniment from the theremins in the manner of Mozart.
RMI is fully the equal of these progenitors, creating moody, shimmering soundscapes with moog, theremin, and more conventional instruments.