Definition of Metronomically

1. Adverb. In a metronomic fashion. ¹

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Definition of Metronomically

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metronomically

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metromania
metromaniac
metromaniacs
metromanias
metrometer
metrometers
metron
metronidazole
metronidazoles
metronome
metronome marking
metronomes
metronomic
metronomical
metronomically (current term)
metronomy
metronoscope
metrons
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metronymic
metronyms
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metroparalysis
metropathia
metropathic
metropathy
metroperitoneal fistula
metroperitonitis

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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