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Definition of Extramusical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extramusical
Literary usage of Extramusical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1903)
"... he could only appeal to the Phantasy, and ultimately must feel compelled to
make the object of description plain by giving it an extramusical label. ..."
2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... and yet since he was a very young man Strauss has produced no pure music,
nothing without an extramusical foundation; and although many of his friends ..."
3. Journal des savants by Institut de France, Charles Giraud (1907)
"Et toujours il lui faudra quelque chose de semblable, ou d'approchant, une
occasion, un prétexte extramusical, et que ce prétexte soit concret et cette ..."
4. Aristoxène de Tarente, disciple d'Aristote, et la musique de l'antiquité by Louis Laloy (1904)
"reproche d'avoir expliqué la musique par un élément extramusical (1 ) : « Les
intervalles ne sauraient, comme on le prétend, « être les causes des ..."
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