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TONES |
Musical sounds |
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HARMONICAL |
Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds. |
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HARMONICS |
The doctrine or science of musical sounds. |
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CONSORT |
Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. |
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TUNE |
To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical
sounds. |
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RHYTHMICS |
The department of musical science which treats of the
length of sounds. |
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DISCORDANT |
Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh;
jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds. |
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INSTRUMENT |
A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are
produced; as, a musical instrument. |
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TABLATURE |
An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters
and other signs instead of by notes. |
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MELODIOUS |
Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to
the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice. |
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STOP |
To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing
them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any
way the vibrating part. |
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PIPE |
A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of
straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds;
as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. |
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STRIDULATION |
The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by
rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many
insects, especially by... |
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DISCORD |
Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly
or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations
which they produce; wa... |
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SING |
To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious
modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes
of a song or tune, ... |
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WHISTLE |
To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds,
by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the
lips; also, to em... |
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RESONATOR |
...n the
form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two
apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by i... |
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MONOCHORD |
An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical
relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched
between two bridges... |
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SIREN |
An instrument for producing musical tones and for
ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which
produce a note of a giv... |
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MUSIC |
The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e.,
sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous
vibrations, as... |
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VIBRATION |
...s
when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or
particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle
may be... |