a. Mus. [f. prec. + -AL.] = UNISONOUS a. 1.

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1728.  R. North, Mem. Music (1846), 66. All was plain-song, that is counterpoint unisonall.

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1865.  Reader, 19 Aug., 214. The unisonal female-voice choruses.

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1882.  Amer. Missionary, March, 70. Their general style is recitative and chorus, though a few are pure solos or unisonal measures.

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1898.  Record, 4 Nov., 1084/2. In spite of one’s own loving reverence for unisonal singing.

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  Hence Unisonally adv., in unison.

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1882.  Standard, 20 Feb. A passage of broken quavers … given out unisonally by the full orchestra.

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1887.  Ch. Times, 4 March (Cassell’s). Tenors and basses burst in unisonally.

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