2. Verb. (third-person singular of slur) ¹
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Definition of Slurs
1. slur [v] - See also: slur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slurs
Literary usage of Slurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing by Adolph Friedrich Christiani (1885)
"... for one may almost include in them the next class of melodic accents. CHAPTER VII.
ACCENTS OF slurs. HERE, likewise, the extremes are accented. ..."
2. Church Music in America: Comprising Its History and Its Peculiarities at by Nathaniel Duren Gould (1853)
"APPLICATION OP slurs. There were certain peculiarities in the style of enunciating
music, within our recollection, which we would place on record,— so far ..."
3. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature by Frank Edgar Farley, Harvard University Dept. of Modern Languages (1902)
"Miscellaneous slurs and contractions. Tin's is is occasionally reduced to one
syllable and written this. Thus,—1448 (this is D), 3778 (this seyd (is) D), ..."
4. Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature (1894)
"Miscellaneous slurs and contractions. Tin's is is occasionally reduced to one
syllable and written this. Thus,—1448 (this is D), 3778 (this seyd (is) D), ..."
5. Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica (ninth Edition): A Dictionary of Arts (1891)
"... in the right-hand section of the case is a similar assortment of slurs, also
adjusted at varying angles to the staff- lines, for the same reason; there, ..."
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