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metronomic, a.|mɛtrəʊˈnɒmɪk|
[f. metronome + -ic.]
a. Of or pertaining to a metronome.
metronomic mark, the indication, placed at the head of a piece of music, of the pace at which it is to be performed.
1881Chicago Advance 29 Dec. 832 The metronomic mark of most of the tunes is too fast. 1896Daily News 17 Apr. 8/5 Mr. Edwards reprints the facsimile of the metronomic times for each number from a Mendelssohn MS.
b. fig. Resembling the action of a metronome.
1959Times 30 May 3/1 The Hungarian..is metronomic as she unwinds the rallies. 1963Listener 3 Jan. 45/2 The metronomic dance music rhythm of our time. 1975‘E. Lathen’ By Hook or by Crook xi. 107 Miss Martineau sobbed with metronomic regularity.
So metroˈnomical a., metroˈnomically adv., according to the metronome.
1822Repository No. 80. 100 The vague directions as to tempo—‘slow’, ‘very slow’, &c. should be avoided..when it is in our power to mark the time metronomically. 1866Engel Nat. Mus. v. 177 The published collections of tunes seldom possess metronomical signs. 1970R. P. Warren Incantations 49 The disturbance you are so metronomically creating. 1974Daily Tel. 14 Sept. 11/8 Both in the opening of the symphony and in the Adagio Mr Davis adopted and almost metronomically maintained tempi as fast as Beethoven has presumably imagined them. |