DIAPASON

Diapason

Diapason is a monthly magazine published in French by Italian media group, Mondadori. It focuses on classical music, especially classical music recordings and hi-fi. The magazine was created by Georges Chérière in Angers, France under the title Diapason donne le ton dans l'Ouest and the first issue was published in Paris, 1956.

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diapason

Noun

  1. the range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument
    • 1934: the piano curving like a conch, corollas giving out diapasons of light — Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
    • 1961: he could hear nothing except the rattle of the crickets and the swelling diapason of the frogs — Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case


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