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Definition of Gamuts
1. gamut [n] - See also: gamut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gamuts
Literary usage of Gamuts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Colors for Painting: Comprising by Jean René Denis Riffault des Hêtres, Armand Denis Vergnaud, G. Alvar Toussaint (1874)
"What is said about the red can be applied to the 71 other gamuts of the ...
Thus, for each gamut of the circular plan, there are 9 gamuts of the color, ..."
2. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"All the gamuts called major are modelled on the primitive gamut of C. formed hy
... The gamuts are always designated by the name of their first note, <>rID, ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The gamuts are always designated by the name of their first note, or tonic.
All the gamuts called major are modelled on the primitive gamut of C, ..."
4. Delsarte System of Oratory: Including the Complete Works of M. L'abbe by Delaumosne, Angélique Arnaud, François Delsarte (1887)
"Now, all these gamuts taken together must form a scale of proportion in ...
But the difficulty is to prove the mode or first tonality of these gamuts. ..."
5. Principles of Physics and Meteorology by Johann Heinrich Jacob Müller (1847)
"If we proceed from any of the other notes, advancing in the same order of intervals,
we shall in the same manner obtain the various gamuts; in order, ..."
6. The Passions of the Human Soul by Charles Fourier, John Reynell Morell, Hugh Doherty (1851)
"We may add that civilization suppresses from infancy one of the gamuts of the
... He is compelled to regard one of the two gamuts which he possesses as ..."
7. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Colors for Painting: Comprising by Jean René Denis Riffault des Hêtres, Armand Denis Vergnaud, G. Alvar Toussaint (1874)
"What is said about the red can be applied to the 71 other gamuts of the ...
Thus, for each gamut of the circular plan, there are 9 gamuts of the color, ..."
8. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"All the gamuts called major are modelled on the primitive gamut of C. formed hy
... The gamuts are always designated by the name of their first note, <>rID, ..."
9. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The gamuts are always designated by the name of their first note, or tonic.
All the gamuts called major are modelled on the primitive gamut of C, ..."
10. Delsarte System of Oratory: Including the Complete Works of M. L'abbe by Delaumosne, Angélique Arnaud, François Delsarte (1887)
"Now, all these gamuts taken together must form a scale of proportion in ...
But the difficulty is to prove the mode or first tonality of these gamuts. ..."
11. Principles of Physics and Meteorology by Johann Heinrich Jacob Müller (1847)
"If we proceed from any of the other notes, advancing in the same order of intervals,
we shall in the same manner obtain the various gamuts; in order, ..."
12. The Passions of the Human Soul by Charles Fourier, John Reynell Morell, Hugh Doherty (1851)
"We may add that civilization suppresses from infancy one of the gamuts of the
... He is compelled to regard one of the two gamuts which he possesses as ..."
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