TUNE Copy link • TUNE 1. s. Harmony, sonorum concentus: nervorum or vocum concordia. In tune, consonus: out of tune, absonus (not of the right tone, that sounds badly); dissonus (that does not agree in tone, not in harmony; opposed to consonans): to be out of tune, absonum esse (to sound ill; ☞ in later writers, absonare); dissonare; discrepare (not to harmonize). An air, modi: moduli: cantus, -ūs: canticum. 2. v. fides ita contendere nervis (or, with by circumlocution, numeris), ut concentum servare possint (Vid: Cic., Fin. 4, 27, 75): to tune a number of instruments, *accommodare instrumentum musicum ad aliud; *efficere ut aliquid cum aliqua re concinat; *efficere ut res concentum servant.