20 Metaphors for tunes

So that, without clearly knowing why it was abominable, Mr. Cartaret said to himself that the tune Alice was playing was an abominable tune and must be stopped at once.

You should have seen him waltz them or in quadrille or cotillon swing, balance, and change them, their eyes brightening and feet quickening whenever the tune became "Ole mahs' love' wine, ole mis' love' silk, De piggies, dey loves buttehmilk.

As she passed the marble Dancing Girl, she seized the wreath that was thrown over its arm, and as she went circling round, it seemed as if the tune had become a visible spirit, and that the garland was a floating accompaniment to its graceful motions.

The tune was an old English hymn, but those were all the words of the song, and they meant, "I am so happy!"

"Your damn tunes are gettin' my goat.

I would never rest until I could be able to say: 'You're a great man in the world's eyes, but I am your master; you are my puppet, and you have to dance to my music, whether the tune be a dead march or a jig.'

The note for note reproduction of 'Ah! vous dirai-je, maman?' in one of the most popular of the so-called Negro melodies with which all America and England are familiar, is an example of this very transparent plagiarism; and the tune with which Mr. 's rowers started him down the Altamaha, as I stood at the steps to see him off, was a very distinct descendant of 'Coming through the Rye.'

The first tune they played was Sellenger's round, in memory whereof ever since it hath been called "the beginning of the world.

" "To be sure 'tis a hymn," said St. Enodar, "and the tune is 'Mullyon,' for a crown."

He said the tune that he was putting in Was just the thing for Christmas Eve.

Troubadours are described as composing "good" tunes and "poor" words, or vice versa; the tune was a piece of literary property, and, as we have said, if a troubadour borrowed a tune he was expected to acknowledge its origin.

The tune was a Scottish melody and as she sang she kept time with a tamborine.

The tune known as son (diminutive sonnet) was as much the property of a troubadour as his poem, for it implied and would only suit a special form of stanza; hence if another poet borrowed it, acknowledgment was generally made.

The minstrels, clad in a costume of their own, and singing to their quaint tunes the exploits of past heroes or the simple love-songs of the times, were the favorites of royalty, and often, and perhaps usually, some of the better class held stations at court; and under the reigns of Henry I. and II., Richard I., and John, minstrelsy flourished greatly, and the services of the minstrels were often rated higher than those of the clergy.

Essay, page 132. Tune, ait, imperio regere omnia solus;

The tune was a jigging reel, and soon began to inspire the performer above.

My old tune is, Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis, &c. Adieu! P.S.ARLINGTON STREET, 7th.

The tune was "Old Black Joe": "We're coming, we're coming, Star players, every one, We're going to win the championship For Washington!" Washington's rooters caught up the yell and made the roof ring.

Rousseau says, "The celebrated Swiss tune, called the Rans des Vaches, is an air, so dear to the Swiss, that it was forbidden under the pain of death to play it to the troops, as it immediately drew tears from them, and made those who heard it desert, or die of what is called la maladie de pays, so ardent a desire did it excite to return to their native country.

Folk-tunes were the product of and belonged to the People, but they had been seized, exploited and perverted by composers, who should be forced to refund the profits they had derived from their robbery.

20 Metaphors for  tunes