Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Music.
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Examples
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21 Trogons; _Trogonurus c. curucui_ (Linné) 282 10 Quadrille Bird; _Leucolepis musica musica_ (Bodd.) 284 3 Bubble Bugs; _Cercopis ruber_
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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And the television, or musica is usually turned on.
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And the television, or musica is usually turned on.
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And the television, or musica is usually turned on.
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And the television, or musica is usually turned on.
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And the television, or musica is usually turned on.
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And it is this interval ... that the early Church fathers declared ... unacceptable and illegal, calling it diabolus in musica (the devil in music).
Secondhand Music 1997
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If I'm plagued by the diabolus in musica during the day, what am I to make of the fact that I wake every morning to the interval do-re-flat -- "spiritless anguish, context of finality" -- created by my refrigerator and alarm clock?
Secondhand Music 1997
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This interval was considered so dissonant that it must have been the work of Lucifer, and so the church named it Diabolus in musica.
Archive 2006-11-01 L. Lee Lowe 2006
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This interval was considered so dissonant that it must have been the work of Lucifer, and so the church named it Diabolus in musica.
If they thought a tritone was devilish... L. Lee Lowe 2006
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