music

UK /ˈmjuːzɪk/ US /ˈmjuzɪk/
noun 5verb 1adj 1name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, etc., often to convey a mood.

I keep listening to this music because it’s a masterpiece.

Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt, / To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.

2

Any interesting or pleasing sounds.

“Oh! this was very kind,” she said, with that simplicity and tenderness, which at times made her voice pure music, “I could not have expected you so soon.”

Wilson's definite genius for rapid, witty dialogue which becomes a kind of conversational music at times.

3

An art form, created by organizing pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and/or singing.

4

A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.

5

Electronic signal jamming.

verb

1

To seduce or entice with music.

adj

1

Musical.

Again, Moſes was the firſt that brought in ſacred Muſick: thus in like manner Strabo lib. 10. 453. informes us, that the Bacchick Muſick was famous throughout Aſia; and that many muſick Inſtruments had obteined a Barbarick name, as Jambla, Sambuke, Barbitos, Magades, &c. which ſeem all to be of Hebrew origination.

Loosened / Thy tongue shall with sweet-flowing sounds surprize / The ear of sense; another than thyself / Will be seen within to have come, and bringing / Music tones from other spheres to have made / Thee ever the harp of hidden minstrelsy.

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