Definition of music

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Music (n.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.

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Charm :: Charm (n.) To make music upon; to tune.
Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians..
Practice :: Practice (v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music..
Gallopade :: Gallopade (n.) A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop..
Stridulation :: Stridulate (v. t.) to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects..
Setter :: Setter (n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.
Sacrist :: Sacrist (n.) A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books..
Lituus :: Lituus (n.) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.
Drumbeat :: Drumbeat (n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
Clef :: Clef (n.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.
Harmonicon :: Harmonicon (n.) A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds..
Unharmonious :: Unharmonious (a.) Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant..
Quadrivium :: Quadrivium (n.) The four liberal arts, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium..
Rich :: Rich (superl.) Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music..
Music :: Music (n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) One who marks the time in musical performances.
Melody :: Melody (n.) A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression..
Vibration :: Vibration (n.) The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string..
Alamire :: Alamire (n.) The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.
Recitative :: Recitative (n.) A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma..
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