Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being in unison; unisonant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being in unison; unisonant.
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- adjective music being in
unison
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Examples
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It opens with a dramatic chorus sung by the mob before the cross, and it ends daringly with a unisonal descent of the voices that carries even the sopranos down to
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And the ending is simply superb, though I could wish that some of the terrific dissonances in the accompaniment had been put into the unisonal voices to widen the effect and strengthen the final grandeur.
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And so his band music expresses all the nuances of the military psychology: the exhilaration of the long unisonal stride, the grip on the musket, the pride in the regimentals and the regiment, -- _esprit de corps_.
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It has an unisonal value that is positively captivating.
The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896
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The failure of the vocal solo in the field of artistic music of Europe might be traced to the establishment of the unisonal chant in the service of the Roman Catholic Church.
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