Lexicographical Neighbors of Metronomical
Literary usage of Metronomical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Complete Musical Analysis: A System Designed to Cultivate the Art of by Alfred John Goodrich (1889)
"(A^/\ ^\ i—i" This suggests slow and rather ponderous dance movements. Now play
the next example according to the same metronomical beats: ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1876)
"There is the metronome, hut the metronomical indications in the various editions
of Beethoven are authentic as regards the works of the third period only. ..."
3. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1891)
"In spite of many seeming lapses from regular and metronomical time, the beat is
alternate and equal. The unequal beat of our ordinary common time seems ..."
4. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"Already in his day Weber declared war against metronomical orchestra playing.
After long and thorough study I am profoundly convinced that had Beethoven not ..."
5. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"Already in his day Weber declared war against metronomical orchestra playing.
After long and thorough study I am profoundly convinced that had Beethoven not ..."
6. Chopin: The Man and His Music by James Huneker (1909)
"If a Beethoven symphony or a Bach fugue be played with metronomical rigidity it
loses its quintessential flavor. Is it not time the ridiculous falsehoods ..."
7. The Letters of a Leipzig Cantor by Moritz Hauptmann, Ferdinand Hiller (1892)
"An animated intonation is no more mathematically pure, than an animated beat is
strictly metronomical. That is the reason it is so difficult to play the ..."
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