tune
noun
a succession of musical sounds forming a melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
Example Sentences
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Her albums — particularly “Energy Field” from 2010, which occasionally calls to mind drum-less heavy metal or an untuned violin — unfurl as tone poems, giving her changing surroundings a spiritual gravitas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Despite widespread criticisms of punk at the time — untuned guitars, bad playing of instruments, too much screaming — Zientara maintained an optimism about where the music would go.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2021
At National Sawdust, he will perform an intimate augmented solo set that asks audiences to “reconcile untuned guitar noise and ballad singing.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2016
And Bill just sat down by my little untuned, school piano and started playing it.
From Time ● Oct. 26, 2011
The plucking was odd and untuned, as it should be in “The Death-Song of Walgund,” as if the melody were exiled even from itself.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
