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I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
When we were mounted Mac leaned over and muttered an admonitory word for Piegan's ear alone.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
What the ear hears is the fundamental pitch only; the overtones harmonize with the primary or fundamental tone, and enrich it.
EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICK
To fill up the time till Liszt came, our hostess made us play, one after the other, beginning with the latest arrival.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
Again the sallow fingers began to play with the book-covers, passing from one to another, but always slowly and gently.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
Her attachment to impressionism leads this artist to many experiments in color—or, as one critic wrote, "to play with color."
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
Our class has swelled to about a dozen persons now, and a good many others come and play to him once or twice and then go.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
It was one day when a student from the Stuttgardt conservatory attempted to play the Sonata Appassionata.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
WORDS RELATED TO PLAY IT BY EAR
- ad-lib
- arrange
- blueprint
- brainstorm
- cast
- chart
- cogitate
- come up with
- concoct
- construct
- contrive
- cook up
- craft
- create
- design
- discover
- dope out
- fake it
- forge
- form
- formulate
- frame
- get off
- hatch
- head trip
- imagine
- improvise
- intrigue
- invent
- machinate
- make up
- mastermind
- plan
- play it by ear
- plot
- prepare
- project
- scheme
- shape
- spark
- think up
- throw together
- trump up
- vamp
- whip up
- work out
- ad-lib
- arrange
- blueprint
- brainstorm
- cast
- chart
- cogitate
- come up with
- concoct
- construct
- contrive
- cook up
- craft
- create
- design
- discover
- dope out
- fake it
- forge
- form
- formulate
- frame
- get off
- hatch
- head trip
- imagine
- improvise
- intrigue
- invent
- machinate
- make up
- mastermind
- plan
- play it by ear
- plot
- prepare
- project
- scheme
- shape
- spark
- think up
- throw together
- trump up
- vamp
- whip up
- work out
- ad-lib
- arrange
- blueprint
- brainstorm
- cast
- chart
- cogitate
- come up with
- concoct
- construct
- contrive
- cook up
- craft
- create
- design
- discover
- dope out
- fake it
- forge
- form
- formulate
- frame
- get off
- hatch
- head trip
- imagine
- improvise
- intrigue
- invent
- machinate
- make up
- mastermind
- plan
- play it by ear
- plot
- prepare
- project
- scheme
- shape
- spark
- think up
- throw together
- trump up
- vamp
- whip up
- work out
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.