What is another word for diapason?

Pronunciation: [dˈa͡ɪəpˌasən] (IPA)

Diapason, derived from the Greek word "diapasōn", refers to a full range of musical notes. It is used to describe the complete set of sounds that a musical instrument, most particularly an organ, can produce. When it comes to synonyms for the word diapason, we can consider different terms such as compass, range, scale, span, spectrum, or gamut. These words refer to a series of musical tones available in a particular instrument, and they are often used interchangeably with diapason. A composer may use these synonyms to convey the full potential of a musical instrument or the range of tones accessible to a musician.

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What are the hypernyms for Diapason?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Diapason?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for diapason (as nouns)

What are the opposite words for diapason?

The word diapason refers to the full range or extent of something, such as a musical scale. Its antonyms include limitations, constraints, and boundaries. Limitations refer to the restrictions that prevent something from reaching its full potential, while constraints denote strict regulations that hinder progress. Boundaries are the borders or limits beyond which something cannot reach. Other antonyms for diapason include unease, tension, and dissonance, which all refer to a lack of harmony or balance. Additionally, words like inequality and disproportion can also serve as antonyms for diapason, highlighting the idea of imbalance or unevenness.

What are the antonyms for Diapason?

Usage examples for Diapason

Life and growth are an attuning, death and decay are an untuning; both involve a succession of greater or smaller attunings and untunings; organic life is "the diapason closing full in man"; it is the fulness of a tone that varies in pitch, quality, and in the harmonics to which it gives rise; it ranges through every degree of complexity from the endless combinations of life-and-death within life-and-death which we find in the mammalia, to the comparative simplicity of the amoeba.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
The river gradually filled up the channel nearly bank high, while the living cataract travelled onward, much slower than I had expected to see it; so slowly, indeed, that more than an hour after its first arrival, the sweet music of the head of the flood was distinctly audible from my tent, as the murmur of waters, and the diapason crash of logs, travelled slowly through the tortuous windings of the river bed.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
No running brooks, no trees, no shade, no merry children frolicking to school, no music of Church bells, no decorous and well dressed people, wending their way to the edifice, where the organ's diapason and the solemn chant, in memory, rose with their stately swell, no cheerful faces of neighbors and friends, no kind voices to congratulate in good fortune and console in bad, surrounded and cheered the saddened pilgrims.
"The History of Peru"
Henry S. Beebe

Famous quotes with Diapason

  • From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
    John Dryden

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