a piece of music (Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture, performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra)
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Alternative forms
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musick, musicke, musique, musike (obsolete)
Etymology
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From Middle Englishmusik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Normanmusik, musike, Old Frenchmusique, and their source Latinmūsica, from Ancient Greekμουσική(mousikḗ), from Ancient GreekΜοῦσα(Moûsa, “Muse”), an Ancient Greek deity of the arts. By surface analysis, muse + -ic(“pertaining to”). In this sense, displaced native Old Englishdrēam(“music”), whence Modern English dream.
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.
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”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 189, number 24, page 32:Music lessons in early childhood lead to changes in the brain that could improve its performance far into adulthood, researchers say.
(figuratively) Any interesting or pleasing sounds.
1856, John Esten Cooke, The Virginia Comedians[2], page 247:“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.”
1978 August 19, Kevin Warren, “A Flawless Production”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 15:Wilson's definite genius for rapid, witty dialogue which becomes a kind of conversational music at times.
An art form, created by organizing pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and/or singing.
A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
(military, slang) Electronic signal jamming.
(US, slang, dated) Heated argument.
(US, slang, dated) Fun; amusement.
Synonyms
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melody
vibe
Derived terms
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absolute music
abstract music
alternative music
ambient music
antimusic
art music
background music
ballet music
banku music
beautiful music
biomusic
bumper music
Caribbean dance music
Celtic music
chamber music
champagne music
chart music
chin music
chipmusic
classical music
club music
cocktail music
concrete music
country music
country-western music
coworker music
dance music
danger music
day the music died
devil in music
director of music
disco music
doujin music
drone music
electronic body music
electronic dance music
electronic music
elevator music
ethnic music
ethnomusic
eye music
face the music
fast food music
field music
fill music
folk music
found music
functional music
furniture music
gospel music
hate music
have Van Gogh's ear for music
hillbilly music
house music
incidental music
industrial music
intelligent dance music
janissary music
lift music
light music
lounge music
make beautiful music together
make music
marching music
march music
micromusic
mood music
mouth music
musicaholic
musical
musicality
musically
musicassette
musicaster
music box
music bread
music cassette
music center
music centre
music chart
Music City
music demy
musicdisk
music frog
music game
music group
music hall
music house
musician, muso
musicing
musicker
musicless
musiclike
musicmaking
musicmonger
musicness
music notation
music of the spheres
musicography
musicologic
musicologist
musicology
musicon
musicophile
music paper
music pen
music room
musicscape
music school
music shell
music shop
music stand
music-stick
musicstick
music theory
music therapy
music to someone's ears
music video
music video game
music volute
musiczine
musivisual
New Age music
nonmusic
old-time music
Original Pilipino Music
outsider music
piped music
pop music
popular music
production music
programme music
program music
punk music
race music
rap music
rock music
roots music
rough music
salon music
serial music
set to music
sewing-machine music
sheet music
snap music
soul music
studio music
techno music
theory of music
township music
trance music
trap music
what kind of music do you like
word music
world music
Descendants
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Jamaican Creole: myuuzik
Pitcairn-Norfolk: myuusik
Tok Pisin: musik
→ Dhivehi: މިއުޒިކް(miuzik̊)
→ Japanese: ミュージック(myūjikku)
→ Malay: muzik
→ Swahili: muziki
→ Welsh: miwsig
Translations
[edit] sound, organized in time in a melodious way
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Alabama: (please verify) olaachi
Azerbaijani: (please verify) not (az), (please verify) musiqi (az)
music (third-person singular simple present musics, present participle musicking, simple past and past participle musicked)
(transitive) To seduce or entice with music.
Adjective
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music (comparative more music, superlative most music)
(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, pages 136–137: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.
1838 fall – 1839 summer, Jones Very, “The Unrevealed”, in Helen R. Deese, editor, Jones Very: The Complete Poems, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, published 1993, →ISBN, page 159, lines 4–9: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”, in Poems, second series, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, page 59: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, / Her music 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, page 26, column 2:And therefore, prisoner, you are doomed for life / To solitary toil. Alone! alone! alone! / Love’s music 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!
See also
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Definition of music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia
Category:Music
References
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William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “music”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
“music”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
^ “music, n. and adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
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MICUs
Interlingua
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Pronunciation
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IPA(key): [ˈmuzik]
Adjective
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music (comparative plus music, superlative le plus music)
Definition of music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. 