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Definition of Melodising
1. melodise [v] - See also: melodise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodising
Literary usage of Melodising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of the Player-piano: A Text-book for Student and Teacher by Sydney Grew (1922)
"(The worst instances of unnecessary melodising I have observed, are the end of the
... melodising takes notes out of the influence of the Control- levers, ..."
2. A History of Music by John Frederick Rowbotham (1886)
"For his joining words to the prelude of the lyre and his melodising the verses
of Homer must be thought of as little more than teaching the voice to soar in ..."
3. The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art (1842)
"These two colors are, therefore, its melodising hues ; and its most powerful
contrast is black. Red, the second of the primaries, is the most positive of ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1884)
"Leave melodising on this wintry day," he cries, apostrophising his "fair-plumed
siren," "golden-tongued romance "— " Let me not wander in a barren dream, ..."
5. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington, Townsend Young (1871)
"Tawdry and modern upholster}' would not be very appropriate to the ancient tower
of an Irish chieftain ; and some of Sir John's proceedings, in melodising ..."
6. The Praise of Shakespeare: An English Anthology by Cecil Eldred Hughes (1904)
"Leave melodising on this wintry day, Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute: Adieu!
for, once again, the fierce dispute Betwixt damnation and impassion'd ..."
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