baian

plural baians

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

   ¹ Double-bass, harp, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, percussion instrument, baian, dombra, balalaika, guitar and other folk instruments, accordion.

   1963, Mayo Bryce, Fine Arts Education in the Soviet Union, page 59

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   There were strange zinc double-basses in the form of square shapes with long strings, there were balalaikas and baians, Negro banjos and Hawaiian guitars, squeaky jazz pipes and metallophones made of steel. […] Behind the accompaniment of the baian orchestra of the Central Club of the union of town enterprises (led by Golikov), the collective displayed an entire dance scene in accordance with all the rules of the ballet.

   1991, Rex A. Wade, Alex G. Cummins, editors, Documents of Soviet History, Academic International Press, →ISBN, page 124

   Four accordion-like baians lent a folksy quality to the opening of “Ennui and Sadness” (after Mikhail Lermontov), but their participation was brief, and it was left to the choristers to bare their souls with angry whoops of loveless despair.

   1997, 20th Century Music, volume 4, page 18

   Cushman found “an emergent sense of nationalistic pride” and an increasing interest in experimenting with traditional musical themes and instruments (such as the balalaika and baian) within the rock genre among St. Petersburg rock musicians from the early 1990s, (Cushman 1995: 315).

   2001, Europæa, volume 7/8

   Her repertoire consists of Russian folk songs, usually accompanied by a grand orchestra dominated by folk instruments such as the balalaika and the baian, as well as pathos-filled songs by Soviet composers, expressing love for the motherland and its nature and people.

   2007, Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Karen Evans-Romaine, Helena Goscilo, editors, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 692

1. Of or relating to Michael Baius or his school of thought, Baianism.

   Apparently only one English divine figured in the Baian dispute.

   2019, J. C. H. Aveling, “The English Clergy in the 16ᵗʰ and 17ᵗʰ Centuries”, in Rome and the Anglicans, page 92

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   See also Ripalda's Disputation on the Baian Propositions, which Mr. Ward of St. Edmund's College has published in a separate form.

   1857, The Creator and the Creature, page 44

   [...] Baianism by condemning seventy-nine sentences of Baius. On the one hand, the Baian claim that grace is [...]

   1995, Handbook of Catholic Theology, page 319

   In the case of the historical discussion above, the radical Augustinianism of the Baian and Jansenian positions was refuted [...]

   2017, Derek C. Hatch, Thinking With the Church

1. Of, from or relating to Baiae, ancient resort town in Italy.

   The Baian edifice, however, is considerably older than the Pantheon and the other circular constructions with domes and half-domes of Baiae, Lake Lucrinus and Lake Avernus, [...]

   1969, Amedeo Maiuri, The Phlegraean Fields, page 78

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   Around the Gulf of Pozzuoli and along the Baian shores the ancient temples and towers of the Roman era still stood, suggesting such wide contrasts of art in desolation and nature in luxuriance as Claude often illustrated in his later works.

   1878, Claude Lorraine, page 20

   Potsherds suggest that the Baian shoreline recently detected by the divers was submerged by the third century A.D., probably about the time that Alexander Severus introduced his monumental changes at the Baian Palatium.

   1972, Alexander G. McKay, Cumae and the Phlegraean Fields, page 74

   The Historia Augusta, for instance, records that the leading senator Tacitus (275–276 ce) had been residing at his Baian dwelling when his colleagues in Rome declared him emperor.

   2021, Kimberly Cassibry, Destinations in Mind, page 168