Evidently the intonation on this occasion was far from pleasing to the listener.
Names were repeated with every intonation of deep love.
This artist has succeeded in giving to his instrument a perfect uniformity of tone and intonation throughout the whole range from C to the high F, an accomplishment which almost all hautboy players have failed in attaining.
In other respects she plays in bad taste, with a profusion of meaningless ornamentations, and the passages indistinctly: her intonation is not pure and her bow stroke extremely bungling.
From this it is evident, that this intonation is natural to the human ear, if it is not accustomed from early youth to the attemperated system of tones.
The soprani, for the most part old men, frequently sang false, and altogether the intonation was anything but pure.
To this proposal I gladly assented, as from the immense execution, together with the brilliancy of tone, and purity of intonation possessed by Hermstedt, I felt at full liberty to give the reins to my fancy.
His left hand, and his constantly pure intonationwere to me astonishing.
The harmony comprises certainly several distinguished virtuosi, but in ensemble, it is neither so even in tone, nor so pure in intonation as ours.
All he said was her name, and that so humbly, and with an intonation so affecting that she flung her arms about him in a paroxysm of tenderness, unmindful of everything save the love that suddenly flooded her whole being.
Pale and feeble as he now appears, the steely hardness of his blue eyes is even more remarkable than in health, and the harsh intonation of his voice comes with a strange vigour from one so weak.
Thus, the chord of the diminished 7th is said to be intolerably harsh in "just intonation," that is to say, intonation based upon the exact ratios of a normal minor scale.
Just intonation is a reality in so far as it emphasizes the contrast between concord and discord; but when it forbids artistic interaction between harmony and melody it is a chimera.
Where this happens in just intonation (in so far as that represents a real musical conception) such chords will, so to speak, quiver from one meaning into the other.
Courtney, with a little intonationof surprise and curiosity, which his good breeding prevented him from formulating more explicitly.
Trix looked up quickly, surprised at the intonation of her voice.
She couldn't make out the odd intonation of her voice.
If anything, there was a hint of Irish,--the soft intonation of the Emerald Isle.
This not only affects the structure of the vocal organs, but varies the intonation of the voice.
The tongue, nasal passages, muscles of the fauces and face, are agents which aid in the intonation of the voice.
Finally Oahika brought his communication to an end with a few words which, from the intonation of his voice, might have been an injunction to the men to hurry up; and away the canoe sped toward the shore.
The intonation of his concluding words no doubt conveyed to the minds of his hearers the idea that he was asking a question, for the two savages turned to each other and exchanged a few words.
To this theme he recurred repeatedly, and she noticed that when he imagined himself in the East his language was correct and his intonation cultured, though still with a suggestion of a Southern softness.
The general intonation of the choir was better than on any previous occasion, all the delicate fluting rapture of the celestial choruses at the end sounding wonderfully sweet and showing not the least trace of fatigue.
His truth of intonation in the midst of intricate passage-work is remarkable, and gives the sense of hearing a rare kind of satisfaction.
The drawling speech of Wessex and New England--for the main features of what people call Yankee intonation are to be found in perfection in the cottages of Hampshire and West Sussex--are being quickened, perhaps from the same sources.
They hear a clearer and more uniform intonation than the blurred, uncertain speech of our commonalty, that has resulted from the reaction of the great synthetic process, of the past century upon dialects.
My experience has been that pupils do not pay nearly enough attention to the intonation of harmonics.
Nowadays, courtiers slightly modify their intonation in clucking to please their masters.
Gwynplaine listened to the unfamiliar voice--the voice of a charmer, its accents exquisitely haughty, its caressing intonation softening its native arrogance.
It sounded hardly human in its mingled intonation of frenzied ferocity and blind despair.
He was so much struck with the beauty and purity of intonation that characterised the singing of the pupils, that he declared that never before had he an adequate notion of what harmony was.
Spohr says: "His (Paganini's) left hand and his constantly pure intonation were to me astonishing.
It is sonorous, and its intonation has even been compared with that of the Spanish, being not at all guttural like the Euroc.
Such was the origin of the festivals and the dances to the gods; and the songs sung during these dances they held as prayers, singing them always with great accuracy of intonation and time.
Her bowing is extremely graceful and free, her execution neat and clear, her intonation perfect.
The difference from just intonationis about one-fiftieth of a semi-tone.
His Southern accent and intonation were nearly as broad as a negro's.
Over the mountains came the sonorous yet wailing, swinging yet rapt, intonationof the negro at his hymns.
It was deep, not unexpectedly, but it was also soft, carrying an almost lilting intonation that made his Imperial English oddly attractive.
She didn't remove her hand, letting it lie as before over his forearm, but when she spoke her intonation was concerned instead of intimate.
And instinct told me that he was aware that I had perceived the intonation with which he had said "He has a daughter," and that it rankled.
There was something in the lady's intonation which was very far from being complimentary.
There was an ironic intonation in her voice, which, in some subtle fashion, recalled her father.
A beautifulintonation and a correct enunciation, give great force and beauty to reading.
The inherent defect of valve instruments already explained, which causes faulty intonationneeding correction when the pistons are used in combination, has now been practically overcome.
Means of compensating slight errors in intonation are provided in the U-shaped slides mentioned above.
