music
NOUN (often attributive):
1. an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
2. the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.
3. musical work or compositions for singing or playing.
4. the written or printed score of a musical composition.
5. such scores collectively.
6. any sweet, pleasing, or harmonious sounds or sound:
the music of the waves.
7. appreciation of or responsiveness to musical sounds or harmonies:
Music was in his very soul.
8. an art form consisting of sequences of sounds in time, esp tones of definite pitch organized melodically, harmonically, rhythmically and according to tone color.
9. such an art form characteristic of a particular people, culture, or tradition:
Indian music; rock music; baroque music.
10. the sounds so produced, esp by singing or musical instruments.
11. written or printed music, such as a score or set of parts.
12. any sequence of sounds perceived as pleasing or harmonious.
13. the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.
14. vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony:
choral music; piano music; recorded music.
15. an agreeable sound; euphony:
her voice was music to my ears; the music of a nightingale.
16. musical quality:
the music of verse; the music of lovingly orchestrated words. —Saturday Review.
17. a musical accompaniment:
a play set to music.
18. the score of a musical composition set down on paper:
leafing through the music.
19. a distinctive type or category of music:
there is a music for everybody. —Eric Salzman; rock music; jazz music; classical music.
Examples:
This is one of my favorite pieces of music; performing music in front of an audience. —Merriam-Webster.
rare:
a group of musicians:
the Queen's music.
in fox hunting:
the cry of the hounds.
Origin:
1200–50; Middle English musike<Latin mūsica<Greek mousikḕ (téchnē) (the art) of the Muse, feminine of mousikós, equivalent to Moûs(a) Muse + -ikos-ic. Dictionary 2: C13: via Old French from Latin mūsica, from Greek mousikē (tekhnē) (art) belonging to the Muses, from Mousa Muse. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of music: 13th century. History and Etymology for music: Middle English musik, from Anglo-French musike, from Latin musica, from Greek mousikē any art presided over by the Muses, especially music, from feminine of mousikos of the Muses, from Mousa Muse. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
1. an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
2. the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.
3. musical work or compositions for singing or playing.
4. the written or printed score of a musical composition.
5. such scores collectively.
6. any sweet, pleasing, or harmonious sounds or sound:
the music of the waves.
7. appreciation of or responsiveness to musical sounds or harmonies:
Music was in his very soul.
8. an art form consisting of sequences of sounds in time, esp tones of definite pitch organized melodically, harmonically, rhythmically and according to tone color.
9. such an art form characteristic of a particular people, culture, or tradition:
Indian music; rock music; baroque music.
10. the sounds so produced, esp by singing or musical instruments.
11. written or printed music, such as a score or set of parts.
12. any sequence of sounds perceived as pleasing or harmonious.
13. the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.
14. vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony:
choral music; piano music; recorded music.
15. an agreeable sound; euphony:
her voice was music to my ears; the music of a nightingale.
16. musical quality:
the music of verse; the music of lovingly orchestrated words. —Saturday Review.
17. a musical accompaniment:
a play set to music.
18. the score of a musical composition set down on paper:
leafing through the music.
19. a distinctive type or category of music:
there is a music for everybody. —Eric Salzman; rock music; jazz music; classical music.
Examples:
This is one of my favorite pieces of music; performing music in front of an audience. —Merriam-Webster.
rare:
a group of musicians:
the Queen's music.
in fox hunting:
the cry of the hounds.
Origin:
1200–50; Middle English musike<Latin mūsica<Greek mousikḕ (téchnē) (the art) of the Muse, feminine of mousikós, equivalent to Moûs(a) Muse + -ikos-ic. Dictionary 2: C13: via Old French from Latin mūsica, from Greek mousikē (tekhnē) (art) belonging to the Muses, from Mousa Muse. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of music: 13th century. History and Etymology for music: Middle English musik, from Anglo-French musike, from Latin musica, from Greek mousikē any art presided over by the Muses, especially music, from feminine of mousikos of the Muses, from Mousa Muse. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.