2. Verb. (third-person singular of trill) ¹
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Definition of Trills
1. trill [v] - See also: trill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trills
Literary usage of Trills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"Ex. b under chain of trills); its introduction is then either a matter of taste,
or depends on what follows, it being usually required where the trill is ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"There are also other kinds of false trills, intended to produce the effect of
real ones, when the latter would be too difficult. ..."
3. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"For her the morning choir shall sing Its matins from the branches high, And every
minstrel voice of spring, That trills beneath the April sky, ..."
4. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"HENRY T. FINCK Much Study Required—Legato and Staccato Practice—Two- finger
Exercises—Slow and Fast Practice—Development of the Wrist—trills— ..."
5. Phonetics of the New High German Language by Arwid Johannson (1906)
"The peculiar, rolling character of the trills is due to the fact that the breath
... In pronouncing the uvular trills r and r the back part of the tongue is ..."
6. The Hand of the Pianist: A Systematic Method for the Attainment of a Sure by Marie Unschuld von Melasfeld, Theodor Leschetizky (1903)
"1. b) trills in Thirds, Practise the trills in thirds, example 38, ... The arm-muscles
are not brought in to help even in trills, which are played simply ..."
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