Diapasons

Word DIAPASONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Diapasons"

What do we mean by diapasons?

The musical octave.

(by extension) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.

A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.

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The word "diapasons" in example sentences

And I'm not sure, I think they're called diapasons or something like that. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Tous ces diapasons différens réunis forment une étendue générale d'à-peu-près trois octaves qu'on a divisées en quatre parties, dont trois appellées haute-contre, taille & basse appartiennent aux voix masculines, & la quatrieme seulement qu'on appelle dessus est assignée aux voix aiguës, sur quoi se trouvent plusieurs remarques à faire. ❋ Celeste Winant (2008)

Philadelphia If you were asked to name the location of the world's largest pipe organ, dollars to diapasons your logical answer would be a great cathedral -- London's St. Paul's, perhaps, or Nôtre Dame de Paris -- or possibly even the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Throbbing bass viols of roaring vernal winds, diapasons of waterfall and torrents — these had been flames of emerald; flaming trumpetings of desire that had been great streamers of scarlet — rose flames that had dissolved into echoes of fulfillment; diamond burgeonings that melted into silver symphonies like mist entangled Pleiades transmuted into melodies; chameleon harmonies to which the strange suns danced. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I was listening to the varied fugue introitus that the organist was playing from the gallery beyond the pulpit, -- playing with the full wind power of the venerable reed instrument he skilfully manipulated, having all the stops out, -- diapasons, trumpet, vox humana, and the rest. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Little of the original work remains, with the exception of some of the diapasons, the principal, and the tin pipes in the choir front. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

After awhile Dr.F. succeeded in putting matters a little to rights and, seated at the key-boards, proceeded to play upon the diapasons, the tone of which he had so extolled. ❋ Various (N/A)

During the night the rainstorm grew to a gale which rocked our night's home like a ship at sea to the music of heaven's grand diapasons. ❋ Various (N/A)

Another broke away from the harsh notes around in soft diapasons, and with a mellifluous _soprano_ which I instinctively knew must belong to a throat that could sing. ❋ Various (N/A)

He listened to those diapasons and thin trebles and was strangely soothed. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)

And I love the instrument by which all the diapasons of the ocean are caught and released in surging floods -- the many-voiced organ. ❋ Helen Keller (1924)

For the long strain was on the country; underneath all its outward seeming of things going on as usual there shook a deep vibration, like the air trembling to vast organ pipes in diapasons too profound to reach the ear as sound: one felt, not heard, thunder in the ground under one's feet. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

My feeling for religious music was then, as since, very deep; and the organ of Trinity gave satisfaction to this feeling; the tremulous ground-tone of the great pedal diapasons thrilling me through and through. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Germans, who made discussion unpleasant by their acrid, dictatorial manners and drowning diapasons, that their arrogance had so rapidly grown out of bounds. ❋ Stuart Oliver Henry (1906)

But it was in the armies of the James and of the Potomac that the true metal of the Negro as a soldier rang out its clearest notes amid the tremendous diapasons that rolled back and forth between the embattled hosts. ❋ Various (1905)

That our mountains are dumb and inarticulate, that our forests chant the litany of the pines untranslated to the winds of heaven, and that our cataracts thunder their diapasons inimitable to art -- is no proof that though we are dumb and inarticulate, we are not lifted and transported and inspired by the wondrous beauties of the heritage God has given us. ❋ Unknown (1903)

On Lamprecht's method, we may be able to assign the conditions which limit the psychical activity of men at a particular stage of evolution, but within those limits the individual has so many options, such a wide room for moving, that the definition of those conditions, the "psychical diapasons," is only part of the explanation of the particular development. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)

Geschichte_, with the aim of showing that all the feelings and actions of each age can be explained by the diapason; and has attempted to prove that these diapasons are exhibited in other social developments, and are consequently not singular but typical. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)

There is a certain music, we do not deny, in Macaulay, but it is the music of a man everlastingly playing for us rapid solos on a silver trumpet, never the swelling diapasons of the organ, and never the deep ecstasies of the four magic strings. ❋ John Morley (1880)

Around are all the common farm-house sounds, -- the poultry making a pleasant recitative between the carols of singing birds; even geese and turkeys are not inharmonious when modulated by the diapasons of the beach. ❋ Margaret Fuller (1830)

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