bajan

plural bajans

1. alternativeAlternative form of bayan (“type of accordion”).

   accordion or bajan solo

   1997, Orchestral Music in Print, Musicdata, →ISBN, page 178

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   Sinfonietta for orch and two bajans (Russian accordions).

   1974, Fontes Artis Musicae, volume 21, page 67

   […] kruglolitsa” with an accompaniment by balalajkas, domras and a bajan.

   1992, Report from the […] International Meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Folk Musical Instruments, Musikmuseet, page 94

   […] the Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, a three-quarter-of-an-hour work for a massively outsized orchestra, an ensemble of bajans (accordions), an extra brass group, a collection of percussion, chorus, and, very briefly, a narrator who represents the voice of Lenin making a stirring announcement through a megaphone, here dramatically read by Gennady Rozhdenstvensky.

   1994, Stereophile, volume 17, page 193

   Live from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, with Trio Voronezh playing piano, trombone and Russian folk instruments: the double-bass balalaika (a large triangular instrument), the domra (a short-necked lute), and a bajan (a button accordion, partially operated with the chin).

   1997, Directions in Sound, volume 45/46, page 10

   He takes a chamber-music approach to the large orchestral forces, isolating various instruments from time to time, and creating a glistening score with a vast, evocative range of sounds, partly through the inclusion of mandolins, guitars, theorbo, electronic keyboard and a bajan (an accordion with a very high register), which often create an alienating effect, as in the grotesque minuet in the first act.

   2007, Opera, volume 58, page 1467

plural Bajans

1. demonymA Barbadian.

1. A Creole language spoken on the island of Barbados.
2. A surname.

comparative more Bajan · superlative most Bajan

1. Barbadian.

   A faction recalled Duke mentioning Bajan ancestry at some point, which lent credence to the tale.

   2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, pages 241–242