music

[ UK /mjˈuːzɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈmjuzɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)
  2. punishment for one's actions
    take your medicine
    you have to face the music
  3. an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
  4. any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds
    he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes
  5. musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)
    his music was his central interest
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How To Use music In A Sentence

  • Do you really want ambient and drum'n'bass remixers stomping on your world music? Times, Sunday Times
  • The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
  • Of all types of commercially based American music, jazz is the one that has most consistently fostered musical artistry on a high level.
  • He literally danced his music into being, conducting his bass players, drummers and horn section with his hips.
  • It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
  • I had written quite a lot of orchestral music in my student days.
  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • You know and, particularly, I'm interested in rhythmic concepts from South Indian music, and so, I work with a lot of these elements in my music. Vijay Iyer: Self-Taught Jazz Pianist Goes 'Solo'
  • Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
  • Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
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