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Definition of Monotoned
1. monotone [v] - See also: monotone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monotoned
Literary usage of Monotoned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"The rest of the service was very simple, and the 'Gloria in Excelsis' either
monotoned or sung to something very simple—I forget which. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"In the course of the eleven o'clock servie« performed on this occasion :— " The
Athanasian Creed wae monotoned with organ accompaniment, ..."
3. Church Music by Alfred Madeley Richardson (1904)
"Now (to save space and bulk, and for that reason only), the note for the monotoned
portions is printed once only, thus leading the uninitiated to suppose ..."
4. The Parson's Handbook: Containing Practical Directions Both for Parsons and by Percy Dearmer (1902)
"We are, of course, bound to say the service quite audibly, but that is no reason
why it should all be monotoned. Reliable authorities in liturgical music ..."
5. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1896)
"It is a monotoned literature, and its one note is flippancy : the flippant
head-line, the flippant paragraph, the flippant narrative, the flippant ..."
6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"... and LAUDS. are the famous 'Lamentations,' which have already been fully
described.2 The Lessons for the Second and Third Nocturns are simply monotoned. ..."
7. The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the by Francis Turner Palgrave (1912)
"It is said that the great poets monotoned their lines in what might seem to be
a singsong; so Tennyson, in particular, read. Whatever our taste in that ..."
8. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"... monotoned his lengthy sermon, under seven heads. " We were sure,'' says the
narrator, " to meet a large number of the neigh- tors' cows hastening toward ..."
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