Meaning of mind's ear | Babel Free

Definitions

The mental faculty or inner sense with which one produces or reproduces imagined or recalled sounds solely within the mind; the supposed organ within the mind which experiences such sounds.

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Examples

“The thinking Sculpture helps to raiſe / Deep thoughts, the Genii of the place: / To the minds ear, and invvard ſight, / There ſilence ſpeaks, and ſhade gives light: […]”

“But, enough of this ſubject; for your angry voice at Aſhbourne upon it, ſtill ſounds avveful 'in my mind's ears.'”

“"I must read Shakspeare [i.e., William Shakespeare]?" / "You must have his spirit before you; you must hear his voice with your mind's ear; you must take some of his soul into yours."”

“[K]eep our thoughts from wandering, open our minds' ears to hear, open our mouths to sing thy praises, let us not trifle in thy house, but ever remember "thou God seest me."”

“Even now I have in my mind's ears the merry gibe of some young rogue of a reader, […]”

“The likeness of the great bass horn remained upon the retina of his mind's eye, losing nothing of its brazen enormity with the passing of hours, nor abating, in his mind's ear, one whit of its fascinating blatancy.”

“Perhaps we may hear in our minds' ears echoes of the sacred duets of Orlando di Lasso, [Claudio] Monteverdi, [Edward] Gibbons, and [William] Lawes, sung in exquisitely responsive improvised harmony to words immediately inspired in them both.”

“There is harmony in the scene; harmony between heaven and earth; harmony in the sounds that the artist allows us to hear within our minds' ear, issuing from the double rank of pipes, sounding to an angel's touch.”

“Other people do "Don't Smoke in Bed" and "I've Got Your Number" and "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis," but when I hear them in my mind's ear, hers [Peggy Lee's] is the voice I hear.”

“I used to be a schoolteacher, teaching children roughly between the ages of ten and thirteen, and I noticed that when they wrote stories, many of them were much better at dialogue than at narrative. […] What they could do very well was put down the things they were hearing in their minds' ear, because those things already had words.”

“What's more, it is to assume that we are not, in general, capable of telling whether we are actually looking at a painting or merely imagining one, or actually hearing a string quartet as opposed to listening to our own mind's ears.”

“Examine as many transcriptions as you can find and compare them to the original Gesellschaft score—you will see the vast range of harmonies transcribers have heard in their minds' ear over the years!”

“"Albers" is musically ambiguous. In its basic form, it isn't unequivocally in C major, but in our minds' ears we tend to make it be in C major.”

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