10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNTUNABLENESS»
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untunableness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Dictionary of English and French Idioms: Illustrating, by ...
Faux. To be untrue to, être infidèle à. UNTRUTH. Mensonge, fausseté; (treachery
), trahison, infidélité. UNTUNABLE. Sans harmonie. An un- tunablé voice, une
voix fausse. UNTUNABLENESS. Manque d'harmonie; discordance. UNTURNED.
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History of the Three Royal Exchanges, the Gresham Lectures, ...
... in case the Committee shall find any just cause for their unsound noise,
untunableness or unfitnesse for the purpose they were made for, they should
have liberty to. 27. i.
3
Bible Music: Being Variations, in Many Keys, on Musical ...
The untunableness of Mistress Pepys was a standing grievance with her and our
Samuel ; who, however, upon one occasion thus- delivers himself in his diurnal: "
How did I please myself to make Betty Turner sing, to see what a beast she is ...
4
Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of ...
Falsehood, contrariety to reality, moral falsehood, not veracity ; treachery, want of
fidelity ; false assertion. . Unti'Nable, fin-tfi-na-bl, a. Unharmomous, not musicaL
Untunableness, fin-tu-nu-bl-nes, s. Want of harmony. T<> Untune, fin-tune,' w. «.
... of Wagner, for untunableness as to all sounds is the worst prejudice as to
Wagner's sounds. Nay, even if a man have a tunable ear and an eye for parterres
and rainbows, indifference to any master in those forms is not a capacity for
criticism.
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Singing for schools and congregations: a course of ...
... wonder at the harshness and untunableness of voice which commonly results
from this system. Mr. hickson, in the review above mentioned, has the following
admirable remarks on these subjects. " We attach comparatively little importance
...
Singing, John Curwen, 1848
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A complete dictionary of the english and german languages ...
Untunableness , nn-ta'-nft- bl-n£e, s. £)iél)armoiii(, f. Untune» So -tune', v. a. »««
ftiinniín ; orrroirrtn. Unturned, Äu -turad', adj. m Jh untgrroriibrt ; fig. to leave no
stone —, nitfjttf нпоггСифг loffr». Untutored, nn-ta'-täxd, adj. unniil<rri<])trt.
Untwine ...
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A discourse on Singing in the worship of God, etc
I saw the Lord, &a. in which he sharply reproves the Untunableness and
lmmodesty of. the People's Singing, and does not Ad; monish them to be Silent,
but that they should Sin skilfully and Modestly. And he says, Clzflltls, Bishop of
Aries, ...
Theophilus DORRINGTON, 1704
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The standard pronouncing dictionary of the English language
Un-tuck'ered, (duck'erd) a. Wearing no tucker. Un-tum Tried, {-turn* bid) a. Not
tumbled. "Un-tu-mult'u-oua, a. Not tumultuous. Un-tun'a-ble, a. Not tunable ;
inharmonious ; — s. Untunableness. Un-tu»e', v.a. To put out of tune ; to disorder;
— a.
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A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry ...
... and gratings of the rosin ; the hoarsness, or some harshness and
untunableness or other, in the best consorts of Musical Instruments and Voices.
The judicious Eye cannot but espy some considerable defect in either the
proportion, colour, ...
Henry More, René Descartes, 1712
