metronome
noun
a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
metronomical
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a word derived from
metronome.
Example Sentences
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Your metronomical indications I naturally accepted as my rule, which formerly I had not been able to do—69 for the song of "Tannhauser," 70 or thereabouts for the D major passage of Wolfram, etc.
From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Francis Hueffer
A metronomical performance is certainly tiresome and nonsensical; time and rhythm must be adapted to and identified with the melody, the harmony, the accent and the poetry…But how indicate all this?
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End by Constance Bache
You ask me also for a few metronomical indications of the tempo.
From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Francis Hueffer
If a Beethoven symphony or a Bach fugue be played with metronomical rigidity it loses its quintessential flavor.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
