'Music' definitions:

Definition of 'music'

(from WordNet)
noun
An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
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Any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes" [syn: music, euphony]
noun
Musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest"
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(music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)
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Punishment for one's actions; "you have to face the music"; "take your medicine" [syn: music, medicine]

Definition of 'Music'

From: GCIDE
  • Music \Mu"sic\, n. [F. musique, fr. L. musica, Gr. ? (sc. ?), any art over which the Muses presided, especially music, lyric poetry set and sung to music, fr. ? belonging to Muses or fine arts, fr. ? Muse.]
  • 1. The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Not all sounds are tones. Sounds may be unmusical and yet please the ear. Music deals with tones, and with no other sounds. See Tone. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (a) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones. (b) Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Love of music; capacity of enjoying music. [1913 Webster]
  • The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Zool.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation. [1913 Webster]
  • Magic music, a game in which a person is guided in finding a hidden article, or in doing a specific art required, by music which is made more loud or rapid as he approaches success, and slower as he recedes. --Tennyson.
  • Music box. See Musical box, under Musical.
  • Music hall, a place for public musical entertainments.
  • Music loft, a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a church.
  • Music of the spheres, the harmony supposed to be produced by the accordant movement of the celestial spheres.
  • Music paper, paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists.
  • Music pen, a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff.
  • Music shell (Zool.), a handsomely colored marine gastropod shell (Voluta musica) found in the East Indies; -- so called because the color markings often resemble printed music. Sometimes applied to other shells similarly marked.
  • To face the music, to meet any disagreeable necessity, such as a reprimand for an error or misdeed, without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'music'

From: Easton
  • Music Jubal was the inventor of musical instruments (Gen. 4:21). The Hebrews were much given to the cultivation of music. Their whole history and literature afford abundant evidence of this. After the Deluge, the first mention of music is in the account of Laban's interview with Jacob (Gen. 31:27). After their triumphal passage of the Red Sea, Moses and the children of Israel sang their song of deliverance (Ex. 15).
  • But the period of Samuel, David, and Solomon was the golden age of Hebrew music, as it was of Hebrew poetry. Music was now for the first time systematically cultivated. It was an essential part of training in the schools of the prophets (1 Sam. 10:5; 19:19-24; 2 Kings 3:15; 1 Chr. 25:6). There now arose also a class of professional singers (2 Sam. 19:35; Eccl. 2:8). The temple, however, was the great school of music. In the conducting of its services large bands of trained singers and players on instruments were constantly employed (2 Sam. 6:5; 1 Chr. 15; 16; 23;5; 25:1-6).
  • In private life also music seems to have held an important place among the Hebrews (Eccl. 2:8; Amos 6:4-6; Isa. 5:11, 12; 24:8, 9; Ps. 137; Jer. 48:33; Luke 15:25).

Synonyms of 'music'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Music'