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noun

Diapason n.

(Gr. Mus.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. Compare disdiapason.

Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. "The fair music that all creatures made... In perfect diapason."

The entire compass of tones; the entire compass of tones of a voice or an instrument. "Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man."

A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.

One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.

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"Diapason" Quotes from Famous Books

... seven notes from our birth to our marriage; and thus may we run up the first octave—milk, sugar-plums, apples, cricket, cravat, gun, horse; then comes the wife, a da capo to a new existence, which is to continue until the whole diapason is gone through. Lord Aveleyn ran up his scale like others ...

— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat

... the magic power of tension When a master hand has control! It wins the heart's approbation And augments the receptive soul; 'Tis a rapture born in heaven To entrance our expectant ears, 'Tis angelic diapason Such ...

— Our Profession and Other Poems • Jared Barhite

... gathers in our schools, is in some respects like a particular musical instrument, designed by God, in its complicated mechanism, to perform its particular part, to yield its own particular tone in the diapason of life; and I shudder when I think how rudely it is often played upon by untaught teachers—teachers who have drifted to their work, or resorted to it as a temporary occupation, for its profits, but who have never thought ...

— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett

... clouded by blood and sweat Grace raise her hand as though in a last farewell, and then as she faced round once more our glances met. She said no word. I could not have heard if she had, for all sound was swallowed up in one great pulsating diapason; but she afterward said that she felt impelled to look at me, and knew that I would turn my head. And so for an instant, there where the barriers of caste and wealth had melted away before the presence of death, our two souls met in a bond that ...

— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss

... Now, the diapason is the ad interium, or interval betwixt and between the extremes of an octave, according to the diatonic scale. The turns of music consist of the appoggiatura which is the principal note, or that on which the ...

— Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales • Robert L. Taylor

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