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Definition of Subtones
1. subtone [n] - See also: subtone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtones
Literary usage of Subtones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1877)
"The vowels differ from each other in tone—not the dominant tone of the voice,
but the subtones combined with it by the resonances of the oral cavity. ..."
2. Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life by Marion Harland (1910)
"... subtones to which the voices of all—even the rudest of the loungers—were
modulated. With this shade of uneasiness there stole upon me a strange, ..."
3. Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life by Marion Harland (1910)
"... and that some of these were evidently listening to the guarded subtones to
which the voices of all—even the rudest of the loungers—were modulated. ..."
4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"They believe that, although all the different tones are to be found in each of
the subtones, each however contains a note belonging to it more than to any ..."
5. Life and Work in India: An Account of the Conditions, Methods, Difficulties by Robert Stewart (1896)
"The octave in its music," says Sir William Hunter, " is divided into twenty-two
subtones, instead of the twelve semi-tones of the European scale, ..."
6. Message of the East by Cohasset (Mass.). Vedanta Centre (1920)
"... in the falling cataract, the gushing stream and in other sounds of Nature.
These seven principal tones contain again twenty-two subtones ..."
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