mind's ear

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Thementalfacultyorinnersensewith which oneproducesorreproducesimaginedorrecalledsoundssolely within themind; thesupposedorganwithin the mind whichexperiencessuch sounds.Synonym:inner earCoordinate term:mind's eye1732(date written), Peter Drake [pseudonym;Matthew Green],The Grotto, a Poem.[…], London:[s.n.], published1733,→OCLC,page 5:The thinking Sculpture helps to raiſe / Deep thoughts, the Genii of the place: / To theminds ear, and invvard ſight, / There ſilence ſpeaks, and ſhade gives light:[…]1778February 28 (date written),James Boswell,The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.[…], volume II, London:[…]Henry Baldwin, forCharles Dilly,[…], published1791,→OCLC,page185:But, enough of this ſubject; for your angry voice at Aſhbourne upon it, ſtill ſounds avveful 'in mymind'sears.'1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym;Charlotte Brontë], “Coriolanus”, inShirley. A Tale.[…], volume I, London:Smith, Elder and Co.,[…],→OCLC,page125:"I must read Shakspeare[i.e.,William Shakespeare]?" / "You must have his spirit before you; you must hear his voice with yourmind's ear; you must take some of his soul into yours."[1850], T[homas]Major Lester, “Morning”, inPrayers and Hymns for the Use of Sunday Schools, London: Wertheim, Macintosh, & Hunt,[…],→OCLC,page 3:[K]eep our thoughts from wandering, open ourminds' earsto hear, open our mouths to sing thy praises, let us not trifle in thy house, but ever remember "thou God seest me."1850March, “My Aunt Nelly’s Portfolio”, inThe Churchman’s Companion, volume VII, part XXXIX, London: Joseph Masters,[…],→OCLC:Even now I have in mymind's earsthe merry gibe of some young rogue of a reader,[…]1916,Booth Tarkington, “Yearnings”, inPenrod and Sam, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company,→OCLC,page293: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 hismind's ear, one whit of its fascinating blatancy.1993, Diane Kelsey McColley, “The Arts of Eden”, inA Gust for Paradise:Milton’s Eden and the Visual Arts, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.:University of Illinois Press,→ISBN,page142:Perhaps we may hear in ourminds' earsechoes of the sacred duets ofOrlando di Lasso,[Claudio]Monteverdi,[Edward]Gibbons, and[William]Lawes, sung in exquisitely responsive improvised harmony to words immediately inspired in them both.1994,Thomas Levenson, “A Perfect Order”, inMeasure for Measure: A Musical History of Science, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone,Simon & Schuster,→ISBN, part 1 (By Design),page20:There is harmony in the scene; harmony between heaven and earth; harmony in the sounds that the artist allows us to hear within ourminds' ear, issuing from the double rank of pipes, sounding to an angel's touch.2002January 27,Terry Teachout, “A master and mentor in song”, inThe New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon7 January 2021: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 mymind's ear, hers[Peggy Lee's]is the voice I hear.2007,Philip Pullman, “The Writing of Stories: Making It Up and Writing It Down”, inSimon Mason, editor,Dæmon Voices: Essays on Storytelling, Oxford, Oxfordshire:David Fickling Books,→ISBN,page42: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 theycoulddo very well was put down the things they were hearing in theirminds' ear, because those things already had words.2009, David Berger, “The Beautiful and the Agreeable”, inKant’s Aesthetic Theory: The Beautiful and Agreeable(Continuum Studies in Philosophy), London:Continuum International Publishing Group,→ISBN,page63: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 ownmind's ears.2017, Harry George Pellegrin,Classic Guitar Method, 5th edition, Scotia, N.Y.: PAB Entertainment Group,→ISBN,page264: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 theirminds' earover the years!2023, Pedro de Alcantara, “Sonic Play”, inCreative Health for Pianists: Concepts, Exercises & Compositions, New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→DOI,→ISBN,page274:"Albers" is musically ambiguous. In its basic form, it isn't unequivocally in C major, but in ourminds' earswe tend to make it be in C major.

Examples:

EN: I'm using my mind's ear
ES: Estoy utilizando el oído de mi mente
EN: Even though you are dead, your mind's ear will hear me talking to you
ES: Incluso aunque estés muerto, los oídos de tu mente me escucharán hablarte.
EN: It's easy to imagine in your mind's ear a harp glissando as you
HI: महक रहा है ज़हन में तेरा खयाल गुलाल के जैसा🤗😍
EN: but more in mind's ear.
HI: मैं और कान लगाकर सुनती हूँ
EN: My mind's ear coined a new term.
HI: ज्योतिष का मन भा रहा, मुझे नया आयाम.
HI: मेरे कानूं भी नये मेरी शरियत भी नई
EN: This still resonates with sweetness today, whenever it is recalled by my mind's ear.
HI: आज भी ये दिल जाऱ सा हो जाता है जब भी होंठो पर तेर
EN: in the mind's ear, where to
HI: शीशे का दिल लिये, जाऊँ कहाँ
HI: शीशे का दिल लिए, जाऊं कहाँ
EN: In your mind's ear,
HI: आप के कान में,
EN: But now the song will be in my mind's ear.
HI: और शोर मेरे कानो में होगा
EN: Ligeti, however, confirmed himself that he would 'hear' a piece of music in his mind's ear.
HI: औघड़ का वो कथन कि "वो आएगी " उसके कानों में गूंजा करता था।
EN: Disharmony is sounded in the mind's ear alone.
HI: किसी के कानों में मूर्त एकाकार होता है।
EN: The virus also attacks the mind's ear.
HI: रोगी के कानों में भी दर्द होता है।
EN: Just a whisper, whispering in your mind's ear.
ID: Hanya bisikan. Berbisik dalam pikiranmu.
EN: When, after the publication of my book in England on 8 September 1952, the BBC read out certain passages from it, I said to myself: 'That was the sound I had in my mind's ear.'"
TE: ఇంగ్లండ్లో 1951 సెప్టెంబరు 8 న నా పుస్తకంలోంచి కొన్ని భాగాలు ఇఇఈ లో చదివి వినిపిస్తుంటే విని, "నేను రాస్తునప్పుడు నా మనస్సులో అనుకుని చదివినట్టే ఉంది" అని తృప్తి పడ్డాను.
EN: A good reader has a mind's ear.
TE: ఒక మంచి కబురు విన్నపుడు మనసు హాయిగా వుంటుంది.

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