music : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
  12-tone music; 12-tone system; twelve-tone system.
  

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• noun music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
  African-American music.
  

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• noun a bachelor's degree in music
  BMus.
  

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• noun a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing
  ballroom music; dance music.
  

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• noun music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
  African-American music.
  

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• noun serious music performed by a small group of musicians
  

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• vocal or instrumental music adapted to performance in a chamber or small apartment or audience room, instead of a theater, concert hall, or chuch.

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• noun idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
  prattle; prate; blether; idle talk.
  

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• noun genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies
  church music.
  

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• noun traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
  classical music; classical.
  

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• noun music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments
  concerted music; polyphony.
  

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• noun a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments
  C and W; country and western.
  

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• noun a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing
  ballroom music; dance music.
  
• noun music to dance to
  

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• noun a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing
  ballroom music; dance music.
  

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• noun the academic department responsible for teaching music and music appreciation
  department of music.
  

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• noun popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques
  disco.
  

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• noun a doctor's degree in music
  DMus; MusD.
  

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• noun the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
  ethnic music; folk.
  

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• verb accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions
  carry-the can.
  

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• noun the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
  ethnic music; folk.
  

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• noun loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery
  heavy metal.
  

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• noun country music originating in mountainous regions of southern United States
  

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• noun music composed to accompany the action of a drama or to fill intervals between scenes
  

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• noun music intended to be performed by a musical instrument or group of instruments
  
• noun music produced by playing a musical instrument
  

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• 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. like hot and cold

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• noun genre of music written for marching
  march.
  
  • Sousa wrote the best marches

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• noun brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade
  martial music; military march.
  

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• noun brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade
  martial music; military march.
  

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• noun music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment)
  monophony; monody.
  

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• noun produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate
  musical box.
  

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• . See Musical box, under Musical.

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• noun a critic of musical performances
  

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• noun the academic department responsible for teaching music and music appreciation
  department of music.
  

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• noun the person who leads a musical group
  director; conductor.
  

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• noun an expressive style of music
  genre; musical style; musical genre.
  

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• noun a theater in which vaudeville is staged
  vaudeville theater; vaudeville theatre.
  
• noun a variety show with songs and comic acts etc.
  vaudeville.
  

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• a place for public musical entertainments.

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• noun a lesson in performing music
  

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• a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a church.

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• noun someone who attends concerts
  concert-goer.
  

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• noun an inaudible music that Pythagoras thought was produced by the celestial
  

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• the harmony supposed to be produced by the accordant movement of the celestial spheres.

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• noun paper with lines appropriate for writing music
  score paper.
  

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• paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists.

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• a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff.

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• noun a light stand for holding sheets of printed music
  music rack.
  

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• noun a school for the study of music
  music school.
  
• noun a school specializing in music
  

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• (Zoöl.), 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.

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• noun a light stand for holding sheets of printed music
  music rack.
  

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• noun a stool for piano players; usually adjustable in height
  piano stool.
  

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• noun someone who teaches music
  

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• noun vocal music for several voices in independent parts (usually performed without accompaniment)
  

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• (Mus.), originally, music set to the gospel narrative of the passion of our Lord; after the Reformation, a kind of oratorio, with narrative, chorals, airs, and choruses, having for its theme the passion and crucifixion of Christ.

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• noun sheet music to be played on a piano
  
• noun the sound of music produced by a piano
  
  • he thought he heard piano music next door

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• noun a musical work that has been created
  opus; musical composition; piece; composition.
  
  • the composition is written in four movements

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• noun music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments
  concerted music; polyphony.
  

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• noun music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love
  pop.
  

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• noun any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
  popular music.
  

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• noun any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
  popular music.
  

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• noun musical compositions intended to evoke images or remind the listener of events
  program music.
  

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• noun musical compositions intended to evoke images or remind the listener of events
  program music.
  

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• (Mus.), descriptive instrumental music which requires an argument or programme to explain the meaning of its several movements.

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• noun genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
  hip-hop; rap.
  

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• noun genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies
  church music.
  

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• noun a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
  rock 'n' roll; rock and roll; rock-and-roll; rock; rock'n'roll.
  
  • rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll.

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• noun a school for the study of music
  music school.
  

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• any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses.

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• noun 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition
  serialism.
  

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• noun traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
  classical music; classical.
  

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• verb write (music) for (a text)
  

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• noun a musical composition in printed or written form
  
  • she turned the pages of the music as he played

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• noun music performed for square dancing
  

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• noun a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
  jive; swing.
  

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• noun a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra
  symphony.
  

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• to meet any disagreeable necessity without flinching. Colloq. or Slang

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• noun a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
  12-tone music; 12-tone system; twelve-tone system.
  

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• noun music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment
  vocal.
  
• noun music that is vocalized (as contrasted with instrumental music)
  

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• music made by the voice, in distinction from instrumental music; hence, music or tunes set to words, to be performed by the human voice.

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