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Definition of Metronomically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metronomically
Literary usage of Metronomically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos by James Francis Cooke (1917)
"Beethoven had complied with the publisher's desire and sent a slip of paper with
the tempi marked metronomically. This slip was lost. ..."
2. Music (1901)
"... means that if we desire to write a piece, the unit of which shall be metronomically
rated at 108, we should mark the unit by a quarter note. ..."
3. Wagner and His Works: The Story of His Life, with Critical Comments by Henry Theophilus Finck (1893)
"... be specially commended to the attention of conductors and critics who still
believe that Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven should be conducted metronomically. ..."
4. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1906)
"... not merely that he should set it and keep it metronomically in motion, but
that he should wield its energies in unison with his own impulse—that he ..."
5. Success in Music and how it is Won by Henry Theophilus Finck, Ignace Jan Paderewski (1909)
"But to suppose that he, the poet of the piano-forte, played metronomically, is
to suppose the impossible; it is tantamount to denying him all artistic taste ..."
6. The Musical World (1871)
"... though somewhat metronomically precise, was always natural and true. In 1837,
as we have said, Thalberg came to England, and played with the effect we ..."
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