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Definition of Tone ending
1. Noun. (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone.
Generic synonyms: Conclusion, Ending, Termination
Category relationships: Music
Specialized synonyms: Explosion, Plosion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tone Ending
Literary usage of Tone ending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1862)
"... namely, the 47th and 48th Psalms to the Eighth Tone, ending of four notes in
Sol, the 49th Psalm to this form of the First Tone, the Magnificat to the ..."
2. A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are by John Walker (1822)
"The opposing parts in the rest of the passage must be pronounced so as to pause
after The one, &c. and give the first members a higher tone, ending with the ..."
3. Law and Lawyers in Literature by Irving Browne (1882)
"... (in a tone ending in a squeal). My lords, all that can astound the culpable,
All that which mortals hold the most redoubtable, Against us here assembled ..."
4. The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1800)
"... either purely, ie in an acute tone, or mixed, that is, in an acute tone ending
in a grave, and commonly called a circumflex* IT will be ..."
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