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See also:Music,Musić,músic,müziç,andmùșic

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a piece ofmusic (Tchaikovsky'sRomeo and Juliet Overture, performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra)
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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishmusik,musike, borrowed fromAnglo-Normanmusik,musike,Old Frenchmusique, and their sourceLatinmūsica, fromAncient Greekμουσική(mousikḗ), fromAncient GreekΜοῦσα(Moûsa,“Muse”), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. Bysurface analysis,muse +‎-ic(“pertaining to”). In this sense, displaced nativeOld Englishdrēam(“music”), whenceModern Englishdream.

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Noun

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music (usuallyuncountable,pluralmusics)

  1. Aseries ofsoundsorganized intime, usuallyemploying somecombination ofharmony,melody,rhythm,tempo, etc., often toconvey amood.
    I keep listening to thismusic because it’s a masterpiece.
    • 1697,[William] Congreve,The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC, Act I,page 1:
      Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt, / To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
    • 2013 November 22, Ian Sample, “Music lessons in early childhood may improve brain's performance”, inThe Guardian Weekly‎[1], volume189, number24, page32:
      Music lessons in early childhood lead to changes in the brain that could improve its performance far into adulthood, researchers say.
  2. (figuratively) Anyinteresting orpleasing sounds.
    • 1856, John Esten Cooke,The Virginia Comedians‎[2], page247:
      “Oh! this was very kind,” she said, with that simplicity and tenderness, which at times made her voice puremusic, “I could not have expected you so soon.”
    • 1978 August 19, Kevin Warren, “A Flawless Production”, inGay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page15:
      Wilson's definite genius for rapid, witty dialogue which becomes a kind of conversationalmusic at times.
  4. Anart form,created by organizingpitch, rhythm, and sounds made usingmusical instruments and/orsinging.
  5. Aguide toplaying orsinging a particulartune;sheet music.
  6. (military, slang)Electronicsignaljamming.
  7. (US, slang, dated)Heatedargument.
  8. (US, slang, dated)Fun;amusement.

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Translations

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sound, organized in time in a melodious way
any pleasing or interesting sounds
sheet music
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Verb

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music (third-person singular simple presentmusics,present participlemusicking,simple past and past participlemusicked)

  1. (transitive) Toseduce orentice with music.

Adjective

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music (comparativemoremusic,superlativemostmusic)

  1. (rare)Musical.[1]
    • 1669,T[heophilus] G[ale],The Court of the Gentiles: or A Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature, Both Philologie and Philosophie, from the Scriptures, and Jewish Church in Order to a Demonstration, […], part I (Of Philologie), Oxon[Oxford]: […] Hen[ry] Hall for Tho[mas] Gilbert,pages136–137:
      Again,Moſes was the firſt that brought inſacred Muſick: thus in like mannerStrabo lib. 10. 453. informes us, that theBacchick Muſick was famous throughoutAſia; and that manymuſick Inſtruments had obteined aBarbarick name, asJambla,Sambuke,Barbitos,Magades, &c. which ſeem all to be ofHebrew origination.
    • 1838 fall –1839 summer,Jones Very, “The Unrevealed”, in Helen R. Deese, editor,Jones Very: The Complete Poems, Athens, Ga.:University of Georgia Press, published1993,→ISBN,page159, lines4–9:
      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.
    • 1847,William Ellery Channing, “The Desert”, inPoems, second series, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company,page59:
      So should she drape the World’s wide round, / With sunny robes, and fresh Spring weather / And consecrate the loneliest ground, / While we went wandering linked together, / Hermusic voice, her beaming eyes, / Give to the Silence, glad replies.
    • 1851 January,Sarah J[osepha] Hale, “The Judge; a Drama of American Life”, in Sarah J[osepha] Hale, editor,Godey’s Lady’s Book, volume XLII, Philadelphia, Pa.:L[ouis] A[ntoine] Godey, act I, scene III,page26, column 2:
      And therefore, prisoner, you are doomed for life / To solitary toil. Alone! alone! alone! / Love’smusic voice will never greet your ear; / Affection’s eye will never meet your gaze; / Nor heart-warm hand of friend return your grasp; / But morn, and noon, and night, days, months, and years, / Will all be told in this one word—alone!

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References

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  1. ^“music,n. andadj.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Adjective

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music (comparativeplus music,superlativeleplus music)

  1. musical, of, or pertaining to music.

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Middle English

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Noun

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music

  1. alternative form ofmusike
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