"Musical note" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I was very well; and he looked at me thoughtfully, put one end of a bit of matting between his teeth, and drew it out tightly with his left hand. Then he began to twang it thoughtfully, and made it give out a dull musical note. ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn
... This tone is the middle F, the fundamental tone of nature. In our melodies it serves as the starting point, which we embody in the key-note, and around which are grouped all the other sounds. Having noticed that every musical note has its typical representative in the animal kingdom, our ancestors found out that the seven chief tones correspond to the cries of the goat, the peacock, the ox, the parrot, the frog, the tiger, and the elephant. So the octave was discovered and founded. As to its subdivisions and measure, ...
— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
... deuce!" said Jacquet, repeating, as it were, the same musical note. "I have two children and ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac
... is impossible to collaborate with anyone in writing a popular song. I don't believe one man can write the words and another the music. A man can't put his heart in another's lyrics or music. To set a musical note for each word of a song is not all—the note must fit the word." But, while Mr. Harris's words should be considered as the expression of an authority, there is also considerable evidence that points the other way. Just to mention a few ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
... moment Mr. Blensop uttered a musical note of vexation. The lead of his pencil had broken. He threw it pettishly aside, came over to the desk, took up a penholder, dipped it in the ink-well, and returned to ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
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