2. Verb. (third-person singular of tune) ¹
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Definition of Tunes
1. tune [v] - See also: tune
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tunes
Literary usage of Tunes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organ Registration: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Distinctive Quality of by Everett Ellsworth Truette (1919)
"Many hymn-tunes which have no distinctive musical character sound equally ...
No one special combination causes these tunes to sound any more pleasing than ..."
2. Church Music in America: Comprising Its History and Its Peculiarities at by Nathaniel Duren Gould (1853)
"A few years previous to this time, three or four tunes had been written and ...
The air and movement of the tunes were exactly suited to the excited ..."
3. Clement Robinson and Divers Others: A Handful of Pleasant Delights by Clement Robinson (1895)
"DANCE tunes. PAGE The Black Almaine 34 The New Rogero 55 The New Almaine 61 ...
The pages of the references to the various tunes in the Tran~ script will ..."
4. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"ELOCUTIONARY AND POETIC PITCH—tunes OF VERSE. Elements entering into the tunes
of Verse : Pitch and Quality—Pitch representing Reflective Tendency or ..."
5. The Evolution of the Art of Music by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1906)
"knitting things closely together is shown to be very remarkable ; and the
organisation of the tunes becomes completely consistent from every point of view. ..."
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