Definition of Monodists

1. Noun. (plural of monodist) ¹

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Definition of Monodists

1. monodist [n] - See also: monodist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monodists

monodermoma
monodic
monodical
monodically
monodies
monodimensional
monodimetric
monodisperse
monodispersed
monodispersely
monodisperses
monodispersing
monodispersity
monodispersive
monodist
monodists (current term)
monodomain
monodomains
monodon
monodons
monodont
monodrama
monodramas
monodramatic
monodrame
monodrames
monodromic
monodromies
monodromy
monody

Literary usage of Monodists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The early monodists, Monteverde and his fellows, directed attention to the ... of the monodists were devoted to the establishment of the modern key-system; ..."

2. German Culture: The Contribution of the Germans to Knowledge, Literature by William Paterson Paterson (1915)
"Probably Schiitz seemed to the Italian monodists to be an ingenious but puzzle-headed barbarian, if ever he attracted their attention at all. ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Like all the productions of the early monodists, the melodies seem extraordinarily harsh, crude, and uninterest ing. The voi urne of lessons forone, two, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"We regard the i jth-century monodists as triumphant iconoclasts; but it was not until their primitive efforts had been buried beneath the entirely new arts ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"Monteverde, Caccini, and the rest of the monodists, groped their way with feeble steps towards the direct expression of dramatic emotions, ..."

6. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1902)
"1 I As specimens of theatrical music antecedent to the experiments of the Italian monodists, these small relics are of great interest, and indicate a line ..."

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