musicn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmjuːzɪk/, U.S.

/ˈmjuzɪk/

Forms: Middle English musiqe, Middle English musycque, Middle English mvsik, Middle English 1600s musice, Middle English 1600s musyque, Middle English–1500s musyk, Middle English–1500s musyke, Middle English–1600s musicque, Middle English–1600s musik, Middle English–1600s musike, Middle English–1600s musique, Middle English– music, 1500s mewsycke, 1500s musiike, 1500s musyck, 1500s musycke, 1500s mysyke, 1500s–1600s musicke, 1500s–1600s mvsicke, 1500s– musick (now archaic and historical), 1600s musickque, 1600s mvsick, 1600s mvsique, 1700s musicck (irregular), 1800s moosick (English regional and U.S. regional); Scottish pre-1700 muisik, pre-1700 museik, pre-1700 musicke, pre-1700 musike, pre-1700 musilk, pre-1700 musique, pre-1700 mussik, pre-1700 musyk, pre-1700 musyke, pre-1700 mwseik, pre-1700 mwsick, pre-1700 mwssick, pre-1700 1700s musik, pre-1700 1700s–1800s musick, pre-1700 1700s– music, 1700s misic (north-eastern), 1700s– meesick (north-eastern), 1800s maizick, 1800s masic, 1800s moosick, 1800s– maisic, 1900s– meesic (north-eastern), 1900s– moosic (Orkney).

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French musik, musique; Latin mūsica.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French, Middle French, French musique (c1150 in Old French) and its etymon classical Latin mūsica the art and theory of music, musical sounds, music, in post-classical Latin also this art personified (5th cent.) < ancient Greek μουσική art presided over by the Muses, especially poetry sung to music, use as noun (short for μουσική τέχνη ; compare classical Latin ars mūsica ) of feminine of μουσικός relating to the Muse or Muses (applied generally to artistic culture, poetry, etc., but also specific to music; > classical Latin mūsicus ) < μοῦσα muse n.¹ + -ικός -ic suffix. In sense A. 3 < post-classical Latin musica (plural) musical instruments (Vetus Latina, Vulgate; in classical Latin as mūsica in sense ‘musical matters, the art or principles of music’), use as noun of neuter plural of mūsicus musical (see above).Compare Old Occitan muzica (mid 13th cent.; Occitan mesico , musico ), Catalan música , Spanish música (c1250), Italian musica (c1250), Portuguese música (14th cent.), and also Middle Dutch musīke (Dutch muziek ), Middle Low German mūsike , mūseke , Old High German musica (Middle High German mūseke , mūsic , early modern German music , German Musik ), Swedish †musica (1536), musik (1579 in form musich )). Among parallel senses of the word in Middle French are: ‘particular genre or style of music’ (15th cent.; compare sense A. 2b), ‘product of the art of music, musical work’ (1553; compare sense A. 2a), ‘company of musicians’ (1553; compare sense A. 5a).

A. n.

I. Musical art, performance, or composition.

a. The art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds to produce beauty of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, expressive content, etc.; musical composition, performance, analysis, etc., as a subject of study; the occupation or profession of musicians.The word has often been used specifically to denote the art of musical performance, sometimes with particular reference to instrumental performance, although contextually it can denote other branches, as composition, musicology, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > [noun]

musica1325

musicry1598

ceol1899

tuneage1985

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 460 Wit of musike, wel he knew.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 164 The science of Musique..techeth upon Armonie A man to make melodie.

c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 258 (MED) Hys brothyr Iuball he began musyke, ose mynstralsy and sang.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. xii. 37 Of this science of musyque cometh alle attemperaunce.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiv. sig. Hij In the bokes of Tulli, men may deprehende, that in hym lacked nat the knowlege of geometrye, ne musike, ne grammer.

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. diij An Architect (sayth he [sc. Vitruvius]) ought to..haue heard Philosophers, haue skill of Musike, not ignorant of Physike [etc.].

1638 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 388 That na maner of persone sould be permittit to teitch musik within this burgh..except [etc.].

1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. i. §9 Writing, needle-works, languages, music, or the like.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 29. ¶13 Musick, Architecture, and Painting..are to deduce their Laws and Rules from the general Sense and Taste of Mankind.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xi. 107 They can pink, point, and frill; and know something of music.

1827 R. Whately Elements Logic (ed. 2) i. 18 There must have been..musical compositions previous to the science of Music.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 77/1 Music..is that one of the fine arts which appropriates the phenomena of sound to the purposes of poetry.

1924 Outlook 29 Oct. 331/1 The time is at hand when music as a profession for Americans will no longer entail financial sacrifice.

1947 C. Gray Contingencies i. 20 [Musical appreciation] aims at fostering a love of music among the populace..by teaching music..in very much the same way as one would teach any other subject in the educational curriculum.

1995 Mixmag May 67/2 Music's always been Steve's abiding obsession, since playing guitar in an agit-prop punk band.

b. Chiefly poetic. With capital initial. This art personified.

ΚΠ

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. pr. i. 49 With Rethorice com forth Musice, a damoysele of our hous.

?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 638 (MED) Musyk hadde, voyde off all discorde, Boece, hire clerke, with hevenly armonye.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xviii. 77 Than forth so went good Counsell and I,..By Musykes toure walked most goodly.

1580 A. Munday Paine of Pleasure (1938) f. 7^v Who seekes himselfe to Musickes arte to frame, And very young is set to Musickes schoole: In other Arts prooues commonly a foole.

1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xi. 103 Hath not Musicke her figures, the same which Rhetorique?

1747 W. Collins Odes 46 When Music, Heav'nly Maid, was young.

1812 J. Ellison Amer. Captive i. ii. 13 Music shall waft her loftiest strains, whilst joy..beams forth from every eye.

1892 W. A. Ellis tr. R. Wagner Art-work of Future in Prose Wks. I. 152 So Poetry leaves behind her feeling and her pathos..and throws her net of modern Intrigue around her sister Music.

a. The vocal or instrumental sound produced by practical exercise of the art of music (whether live, pre-recorded, etc.). †in (good, true) music: in tune (obsolete).broken music: see broken adj. 15. music of the spheres: see sphere n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun]

gleec897

mirtheOE

dreamOE

soundc1330

entunec1369

musica1382

noisec1390

sonnetc1400

cant1704

tonation1728

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > [adverb]

in (good, true) musica1382

in or out of tunec1450

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxxii. 5 Forsothe ther semeth thee ferst the wrd of loouende kunnyng; and lette thou not musik.

c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2235 Iesus Syrak seith that musik in wepyng is anoyous thyng.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 497 Sirenes..singe, With notes..of such musike, Wherof the Schipes thei beswike.

c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls 62 The melodye herde he That cometh of thilke speris thryes thre, That welle is of musik.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 267^v That made grete feste of theyr comyng in many manyers of Instrumentis of musycque.

a1535 Frere & Boye 98 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 65 A pype thou shalte haue also, In true musyke it shall go.

1588 W. Byrd Reasons to learne to Sing in Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs sig. A3^v There is not any Musicke of Instruments whatsoeuer, comparable to that which is made of the voyces of Men.

1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 366^v/1 The armony And sweet accord was in so good musike That the voice to Angels most was like.

1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 308 With their voyces and cimbals, they make pleasant musicke.

1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xii, in Poems 6 Such Musick (as 'tis said) Before was never made.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1643 (1955) II. 96 The young king..was entertaind with the Church musique.

1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 21 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 261 We ended the day with music at S: Agnes.

1769 T. Gray Ode at Installation Duke of Grafton 63 Sweet music's melting fall.

1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. iv. 328 A soft strain of music stole up from the garden.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xx. 228 There was music..in harmony with so funereal a spectacle.

1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xi. 112 The music of the military and other bands is unusually excellent.

1909 G. Stein Three Lives 154 The noises in the full streets, and the music of the organs, and the dancing.

1914 G. B. Shaw Misalliance 55 Have the gramophone... No, thank you: no music.

1948 E. Waugh Loved One i. 3 The ever present pulse of music from the neighbouring native huts.

1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 183 I put on some music and abluted, then made two Nescafés.

1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo vi. 154 He opened the back door and for a moment they heard music coming from the cabin.

b. Usually with defining word or phrase: a particular style, genre, or tradition of musical performance or composition; (also) the work of a particular composer or writer. Often treated as a count noun in later use.For established compounds see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun]

music1545

sound1963

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 9^v Whether..these galiardes, pauanes and daunces..be lyker the Musike of the Lydians or the Dorians.

1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 191 The second sort of them are plaiers vpon instruments, cheefelie the Harpe and the Crowth: whose musike for the most part came to Wales with the said Gruffyth ap Conan.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 682 Agathon..first brought up the Chromaticke musicke.

1664 S. Pepys Diary 5 Oct. (1971) V. 290 After three hours' stay, it [sc. the ‘arched viall’] could not be Fixt in tune; and so they were fain to go to some other Musique of instruments.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 18 Apr. (1965) I. 351 As if a Foreigner should take his Ideas of English Music from..the marrow bones and cleavers.

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. 346 He [sc. Gregory] formed that ecclesiastical music so grave and edifying, which at present is called the Gregorian music.

1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. iv. 158 The others showed a most decided penchant for the ancient Greek music.

1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 25 July 126/1 Weber was the true founder of the great German school of romantic music.

1881 Athenæum 26 Mar. 437/1 A certain want of variety in the colouring of his music.

1898 I. L. Bird Korea & her Neighbours I. xii. 191 There are three classes of Korean vocal music, the first being the Si-jo or ‘classical’ style.

1931 Week-End Rev. 24 Oct. 515/1 It looks as if the music of Jean Sibelius were at last coming into its own this winter.

1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 819/2 The Russian development of a national music..served to some extent as an incentive to Rumanian musicians.

1975 New Yorker 10 Feb. 111/1 It is..an overextended loosely rhapsodic sequence of procedures from traditional black and modern white musics.

1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State vii. 242 The breaks and bass boosts..would be the building blocks on which a new music was built.

c. Vocal or instrumental sounds put together in melodic, harmonic, or rhythmical combination, as by a composer; a composed musical setting (frequently including both melody and accompaniment) to which a poem, etc., may be sung; (also) the musical accompaniment to a ballet, play, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > [noun] > as devised by composer

music1574

1574 (title) A briefe and plaine instruction, to set all musicke of 8 diuers tunes in tableture for the lute.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 180 Canzonets, that is little shorte songs..which is in composition of the musick a counterfet of the Madrigal.

1607 T. Hume (title) Captain Humes poeticall musicke, principally made for two basse-viols.

1645 (title) Poems of Mr. John Milton... The songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Capriccio's are pieces of Music, Poetry, and Painting, wherein the force of Imagination has better success than observation of the Rules of Art.

1696 P. A. Motteux (title) The loves of Mars & Venus. A play set to music.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 18. ¶2 That nothing is capable of being well set to Musick, that is not Nonsense.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xiii. 223 If the Poet select and adapt proper Music to his Poem.

1808 Monthly Pantheon 1 85/1 An immense expense..the reward of the composer, who selected and arranged the music.

1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) ix. 79 A firework piece of music, in which execution takes the place of melody.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 87/2 Schütz wrote music to a translation of Peri's Dafne.

a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) vii. 257 Corthell composed the words and music for a carol which had a great success.

1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz 11 I wrote a piece of music for this scene.

1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Mar. 47/1 The musically inclined may want to set some to music or perform a rap.

3. A musical instrument. Formerly esp. in †to play on music (also in plural). regional in later use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > collectively

musica1382

minstrelsyc1390

set1561

orchestra1770

musical1809

family1842

instrumentarium1893

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 3 Esd. v. 2 Þei broȝten hem in to ierusalem..with musikis & tymbres & trumpis.

c1400 Apocalypse St. John: B Version (Harl. 171) (1971) 96 (MED) Neuere aftir schal be herd in hir voice of harpis, neiþir of musikis, neiþir of pipers, [etc.].

1556 in F. R. Raines Hist. Chantries Lancaster (1862) II. 262 He was grave and chaste, could play on the musiques, and was noe typler nor dyce man.

1656 Duchess of Newcastle Natures Pictures 370 Tutors..for all sorts of Vertues, as singing, dancing, playing on Musick, reading, writing, working, and the like.

1671 A. Behn Amorous Prince iii. iii. 46 An Artist I vow; canst play on any Musick?

c1693 Player's Trag. 6 He was Handsom, cou'd Sing, Dance, and Play on the Musick.

1752 W. Halfpenny & J. Halfpenny Rural Archit. in Chinese Taste i. 6 A Room, wherein Musicians may be secreted (and play on soft Musick to the agreeable Surprize of Strangers).

1785 C. Macklin Man of World v. 58 He made love verses upon her in praise of her virtue, and her playing upon the music.

a1800 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. (1814) 147 A fond Mother..will exultingly tell you that Miss ‘learned herself to play upon the Musick’.

1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 78 Music, any musical instrument.

a1903 R. Barrett in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 211/1 [Sussex] Let me go fetch my music.

1929 Amer. Speech 5 19 An old lady said to a man carrying a guitar: ‘Fetch yore music inter th' house—th' dew'll warp it.’

4. As a count noun: a musical composition or performance. Now archaic and historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > [noun]

workOE

musica1586

composure?1606

composition1667

writings1672

morceau1748

op.1784

piece1825

opusc1840

confection1844

number1865

oeuvre1889

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. vi. sig. Ll7 Musickes at her windowe, & especially such Musickes, as might..call the mind to thinke of sorow, and thinke of it with sweetnes.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. ix. 69 Vnlesse it be in small & popular Musickes song by these Cantabanqui vpon benches and barrels heads.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 37 I haue assayl'd her with Musickes, but she vouchsafes no notice.

1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers ii. 29 I came to Present my Lady Vaine with a musique I have made.

1674 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 7) 46 Exclamations may be used in all Passionate Musicks.

1788 H. Newdigate Let. in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) v. 79 She was at ye Musick at Derby.

1807 E. Wynne Diary 24 Apr. (1952) xxix. 481 I asked the Duke de Berri to come to our little music on Monday next.

1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros iii. 31 He..commanded them saying, ‘Play me a solemn music.’

1942 Scrutiny 10 4/376 It was just as natural for him [sc. Elgar] to compose Pomp and Circumstance and the other occasional musics that so alarm the purists as it was for him to compose the..Enigma Variations.

1985 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Apr. 423/4 The..players could have been called upon for both interludes and ‘musics’.

a. A company of musicians (in early use also in plural in same sense). In later use chiefly Military: that component of a military force charged with sounding signals on musical instruments (cf. sense A. 5b). Now chiefly historical.In the later 20th cent. revived (usually in form Musick) in the names of a number of ensembles devoted to the performance of early music.Master of the (King's, Queen's) Music: see master n.¹ 23a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band

companyc1503

noise1558

musica1586

band1660

music band1812

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ii. sig. Il8^v The Musicke entring alone into the lodge, the Ladies were all desirous to see from whence so pleasant a guest was come.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 210 Play Musique then: nay you must do it soone.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 216 The musique playes, vouchsafe some motion to it.

1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. sig. B2 When sodainely vpon silence made to the Musikes, a voyce was heard to vtter this verse.

a1639 S. Marmion Antiquary (1641) ii. i Julia, go throw the Music a reward.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 19 Dec. (1972) VII. 414 He says many of the Musique are ready to starve, they being five years behindhand for their wages.

1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Feb. (1948) II. 482 A scoundrel dog, one of the queen's musick, a German.

1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 102 The music of the chapel performed several Italian airs.

1810 Mil. Compan. (U.S. War Dept.) v. 22 The music marches between the Captain and first section.

1847 Infantry Man. (1854) 75 The drummers and music are in the rear.

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 224 Field music, the music of a military body in contradistinction to the band.

1980 New Grove Dict. Music XI. 154/1 In the middle of James I's reign the King's Music was about 40 strong.

1994 Gramophone July 99/3 The Cardinall's Musick deliver clear and serviceable readings.

b. U.S. Military. In the U.S. Marines: a soldier responsible for sounding signals on a musical instrument; (now) spec. a trumpeter, a bugler.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > signaller or musician

waitc1325

trumpeter1497

drum?1535

drum major1589

trumpettier1609

drum-major general1676

bugler1792

fife-major1802

pipe major1816

Bugle Major1844

signaller1845

bugle boy1848

trumpet-major1855

bugleman1859

bunting-tosser1905

buzzer1915

music1915

1915 L. B. Willson Sailor's Prayer in Our Navy (U.S.) Aug. 29/1 So, Lord, find out where ‘music’ swings, And stuff his horn with spuds and things, And lash him in his ‘bloomin' hay’ So he won't sound his ‘roundelay’.

1917 Marines Mag. Jan. 27 Sentry! Sentry! Take this music out and hang him—yes, hang him.

1922 Leatherneck 22 Apr. 4 It was a mere boy in forestry green flourishing a shiny bugle—a Marine ‘music’.

1984 J. R. Elting et al. Dict. Soldier Talk 205/2 Music, an infantry bugler or cavalry trumpeter. In the Marines music is a shortened version of company musician—originally drummers, later a bugler. Like their Army counterparts, they sounded the daily calls in peacetime routine or combat.

6. The written or printed score of a musical composition; such scores collectively; musical composition as represented by conventional graphic symbols.sheet music: see sheet n.¹ Compounds 3d.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun]

pricksonga1450

pricked song1463

musicc1615

dot1919

c1615 (title) Parthenia, or the Maydenhead of the first musicke that euer was printed for the Virginalls.

1688 T. Salmon Proposal to perform Musick 19 That the Writers of Musick may more certainly know where to fix their Flats and Sharps.

1759 N.Y. Mercury 13 Aug. (advt.) A great collection of wrote and printed Musick from Italy and England.

1762 G. Colman Musical Lady i. ii. 15 (stage direct.) Tunes the instrument, and turns over several pieces of music.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. x. 209 She shook her head, put the music aside..and closed the instrument.

1835 New-Eng. Mag. Oct. 309 Many pupils in these classes read music more readily..than the leaders of choirs.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 3/2 We alone..print over a ton weight of music week by week.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 178 Mr Bell..stood ready with his music but the accompanist made no sign.

1951 E. Taylor Game of Hide-and-seek i. ii. 51 He played without music; mostly, his glance was sidelong down at the keyboard.

1996 E. Lovelace Salt xi. 199 He couldn't read music..just a fella who could go anywhere and draw people to him with a cuatro or a guitar.

†7. Each of the short keys, now usually black, on the keyboard of an organ. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > keyboard > short keys

music1694

1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 156 The Breves representing the Tones of the broad Gradual Keys of an Organ; the Semibreves representing the Narrow Upper Keys, which are usually called Musics.

II. Extended uses.

a. Sound produced naturally which is likened to music in being rhythmical or pleasing to the ear, as the song of birds, the sound of running water, etc. (occasionally used ironically).

ΚΠ

c1460 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 781 (MED) Iayes in musyk haue smal experyence.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R5 She more sweete, then any bird on bough, Would..Striue to passe..Their natiue musicke by her skilful art.

?1593 G. Fletcher Licia xiv. 15 My love lay sleeping, where birdes musicke made.

1597 A. Montgomery Cherrie & Slae 86 To heir the startling streames cleire, I thocht it musike to the eire.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 28 Clashing of swords was then daily musicke in every street.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 88. ⁋7 Milton, whose ear had been accustomed..to the music of the ancient tongues.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 141 These naked shoots, Barren as lances, among which the wind Makes wintry music.

1825 Lancet 17 Sept. 365/2 The music of the loom, the roar of the furnace, and the explosion of the mine, were the moral thunders by which a government could best disperse the clouds.

1836 W. Irving Astoria III. 25 Musquitoes, which, with their stings and their music, set all sleep at defiance.

1876 L. Morris Epic of Hades ii. 67 Streams Laughed with a rippling music.

1947 P. Kavanagh Soul for Sale 13 When we put our ears to the pailing-post The music that came out was magical.

1987 W. McPherson Sargasso Sea (1988) v. 329 The pianist was taking a break, the only music now the chirping of the tree frogs.

b. The cries of a pack of hounds on seeing the chase.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > [noun] > cry of hounds

bayc1300

mutea1375

questc1400

music1600

crash1781

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > in hunting

bayc1300

mutea1375

music1600

crash1781

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 105 My loue shall heare the musicke of my hounds.

1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. i. 7 With these three parts of musique you shall make your cry perfect.

1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) i. 23 What musick doth a pack of Dogs then make.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones xvi. ii I had rather hear thy voice than the musick of the best pack of dogs in England.

1808 F. Skurray Bidcombe Hill 9 The cheerful music of the opening hounds.

1885 Field 7 Feb. 148/2 The music of the pack as they settled to the line.

1930 G. R. Mott in C. Frederick et al. Foxhunting xxvii. 266 The sterling hunting qualities of this pack, together with their superb music, have brought them to the notice of the finest hound breeders in the land.

1991 Sports Illustr. 14 Jan. 5/3 Now the beagles are in ‘full cry’—the yelping, howling racket known as the ‘music of the hounds’.

c. slang (chiefly Military). The sound of gunfire or other ordnance.

ΚΠ

1650 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 25. 351 That night I planted my Ordnance, and Morter Peece, and plaid the next morning, which musike was so operative, that..the Governour desired a Parley.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 225 With that another Volley of great and small Shot: When this Musick [Fr. musique] had lasted about an Hour, they [etc.].

1864 C. W. Wills Army Life 327 Have heard no ‘music’ today.

1865 H. Johnson Tending Talking Wire 250 I would give the words of the ‘song’, but I went to making music on my spencer and didn't get to hear it all.

1927 E. Stockwell Private E. Stockwell 131 It settled down to picket firing with an occasional artillery bombardment. So we had the same old music we had had all summer.

1992 G. Garry This ol' Drought 141 Get up in the rocks and play some Winchester [rifle] music for the locals.

a. Chiefly in figurative context. Something likened to music by virtue of its beauty or charm, or the pleasure which it produces. Frequently in music to one's ears: something which it is gratifying to hear, pleasant news (see also quot. 1597 at sense A. 8a).In quot. 1699 in negative context, applied to bad news.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > pleasant quality

musica1586

euphonia1591

euphony1623

chimingness1674

silveriness1856

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [noun] > musical or harmonious quality > sound

musica1586

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xvii. sig. Aa4 What Histories may euer make my fame yeeld so sweete a Musicke to my eares, as that [etc.]?

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 518 It is my Fathers Musicke To speake your deeds.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 118 The time was once, when thou vn-vrg'd wouldst vow, That neuer words were musicke to thine eare,..Vnlesse I spake..to thee.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 25 The hearing of such conjugal faithfulness will be Musick to all chaste ears.

a1668 W. Davenant Fair Favorite (1673) v. i I shall now be kil'd, Even with the musick of her voice.

1694 J. Collier Misc. v. 63 But when People have nothing but Fears, and Jealousies and Plots in their Heads, there is no Musick in their Company.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Musick It makes ill Musick, of any unwelcome..News.

1704 W. M. Female Wits iii Whilst my Ears devour your protested Love, my Heart dances to the Musick of your Vows.

1750 M. Jones Misc. in Prose & Verse 116 Artless lays, To her and Lovelace tund, grow music in their praise.

1777 W. Combe Diabo-lady 12 What music to my ears, to hear him yell.

1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos i. vi. 179 The mind—the Music breathing from her face.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xciv. 142 Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. iii. 45 The stirring sunlight, and the growing vines..made a pleasant music for the mind.

1899 F. W. O. Ward Eng. Roses 174 The wild shudder of the rudder Was music to his ears.

1908 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 5/5 Unless you understand that Shakespeare was a man who was writing music with words you will never understand anything about Shakespeare at all.

1959 Listener 15 Jan. 107/2 As a figurative artist she is not strong, but as a maker of pure visual music she is, usually if not always, excellent.

1994 Guardian 12 Nov. 29/7 Such scientific justifications for the good life are music to the ears of those who identify a growth in so-called health fascism.

†b. to step music: to step with rhythmical grace. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 243 The performers stepped music, their action was grace.

c. euphemistic. to make (beautiful) music (together): to have sexual intercourse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse

playOE

to do (also work) one's kindc1225

bedc1315

couple1362

gendera1382

to go togetherc1390

to come togethera1398

meddlea1398

felterc1400

companya1425

swivec1440

japea1450

mellc1450

to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474

engender1483

fuck?a1513

conversec1540

jostlec1540

confederate1557

coeate1576

jumble1582

mate1589

do1594

conjoin1597

grind1598

consortc1600

pair1603

to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608

commix1610

cock1611

nibble1611

wap1611

bolstera1616

incorporate1622

truck1622

subagitate1623

occupya1626

minglec1630

copulate1632

fere1632

rut1637

joust1639

fanfreluche1653

carnalize1703

screw1725

pump1730

correspond1756

shag1770

hump1785

conjugate1790

diddle1879

to get some1889

fuckeec1890

jig-a-jig1896

perform1902

rabbit1919

jazz1920

sex1921

root1922

yentz1923

to make love1927

rock1931

mollock1932

to make (beautiful) music (together)1936

sleep1936

bang1937

lumber1938

to hop into bed (with)1951

to make out1951

ball1955

score1960

trick1965

to have it away1966

to roll in the hay1966

to get down1967

poontang1968

pork1968

shtup1969

shack1976

bonk1984

boink1985

1930 M. Laing Make Music, Baby (MS song) Make music, Baby, make some music for me.]

1936 S. J. Perelman in New Yorker 26 Dec. 18/1 I tell you, it's like gall in my mouth two young people shouldn't have a room where they could make great music.

1967 F. Mullally Prizewinner vii. 117 He could say good-bye to any hope of making music later on with the Swede.

1967 ‘E. Queen’ Face to Face xviii. 84 Glory didn't like Gouch—she used to say they didn't make music together.

1969 H. Nielsen Darkest Hour xxi. 238 You and Buddy can make beautiful music together.

1972 C. Short Naked Skier xxi. 115 I think we should make music together.

1995 Village Voice (N.Y.) 7 Mar. 13/1 He'd like to make beautiful music with..a former three-term town supervisor of East Hampton.

†10. slang. A band of highwaymen or similar robbers. Esp. in the music's paid (see quot. 1699). Obsolete.In quot. a1627 apparently with a more general allusion to sense A. 5.

ΚΠ

a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) iii. i. 27 Ans. Y'ar not that kind of Gentleman, I hope sir, To sing me out of my money? La. 'Tis most fit Art should be rewarded: you must pay your Musick sir Where ere you come... Come, come your purse sir.

1693 Jacobite Robber 21 The Coach was set upon..but the Lady telling the Gang the Musick was paid, they let the Coach pass by.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Musick The Musick's paid, the Watch-word among High-way-men, to let the Company they were to Rob, alone, in return to some Courtesy.

11.

†a. Pleasure, amusement. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun]

lustc888

lustfulnessa900

queemnesseOE

mirtheOE

estec1000

winOE

queemc1175

sweetness?c1225

solace1297

dutea1300

lustinga1300

joyingc1300

jollityc1330

lustiheadc1369

lustinessc1374

sweet1377

voluptyc1380

well-pleasinga1382

pleasancec1385

pleasurea1393

volupta1398

easementc1400

pleasingc1400

complacencec1436

pleasec1475

satisfaction1477

likancea1500

oblectation1508

beauty1523

aggradation1533

pleasurancec1540

joc1560

likement1577

contentment1587

beloving1589

gratification1598

savouriness1599

entertain1601

pleasedness1626

well-apaidness1633

well-pleasedness1633

pleasingness1649

complacency1652

adlubescence1656

enjoyment1665

volupe1669

musica1674

pleasantry1740

barrel of fun (laughs, etc.)1915

a1674 Ld. Clarendon Hist. Rebellion (1816) III. ii. xvi. 870 The pride and forms of a Spanish breeding..disposed him [sc. Don Juan] to laziness and taking his music.

b. U.S. colloquial. Originally: liveliness; excitement; fun, sport; (also) sense of the ridiculous (now rare). Later: trouble, disturbance. Cf. musical adj. 6. See also to face the music at face v. Phrases 1g.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigour or liveliness

jollinessc1386

liveliheadc1425

quicknessc1425

vyfnes1475

ramagec1485

couragea1498

liveliness1534

spritec1540

livelihood1566

life1583

sprightliness1599

sprightfulness1602

ruach1606

sprightiness1607

sparkle1611

airiness1628

vivacy1637

spiritfulness1644

spirit1651

vivacity1652

spiritedness1654

brightness1660

sprightness1660

ramageness1686

race1690

friskiness1727

spirituousness1727

vivaciousness1727

brio1731

raciness1759

phlogiston1789

animation1791

lifefulness1829

pepper-and-salt1842

corkiness1845

aliveness1853

vitality1858

music1859

virtu1876

liveness1890

zippiness1907

bounce1909

zing1917

radioactivity1922

oomph1937

pizzazz1937

zinginess1938

hep1946

vavoom1962

welly1977

masala1986

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Music, amusement, fun. ‘Jim is a right clever fellow; there is a great deal of music in him.’

a1872 Lett. from South in M. Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 618 Jake is not without his vein of fun, music they call it down here.

1886 E. L. Wheeler N.Y. Nell 18 I'm on the war-path now; so look out for music.

1890 Cent. Dict. Music,..diversion; sport; also, sense of the ridiculous... (New Eng.)

1891 Scribner's Mag. July 104/2 I am going to send this letter to the Countess Coronna... You perceive there may be music. Hence I..choose Ike Williams as my messenger.

1922 in H. Ruhm Hard-boiled Detective (1977) 24 John B. Combs cut a big figure and his son's arrest made some music.

1973 Playboy Jan. 250/1 [If] I knew how much music it was gonna cost me, I would've paid the extra dough to take it out.

†12. Entomology. The light arches moth, Apamea lithoxylaea, a pale European noctuid moth with obscure markings on the forewings (perhaps from the resemblance of its markings to written music). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > graphiphora musiva

music1832

musive1832

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 65 The Music (X[ylophasia] lithoxylea, Stephens) appears the beginning of July.

13. Golf. Flexibility or give in the shaft of a golf club. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > flexibility of shaft

music1890

1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 57 A heavy head may bring just the right amount of life—of what Tom Morris calls ‘music’—out of a very stiff shaft.

1903 W. J. Travis Pract. Golf (rev. ed.) ix. 111 The man with a less rapid swing will get equally as long a ball by using a more supple shaft. The more ‘music’ there is in the shaft, however, the greater is the liability to slice or pull.

B. adj. (attributive).

= musical adj.Found mainly in contexts where musical would disrupt a poetic metre.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > [adjective]

musica1382

musical1447

rural1488

harmonic1570

harmonical1603

pure1605

tuneful1697

melophonic1843

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [adjective] > musical or harmonious

musica1382

cordant1382

melodiousa1425

musicala1449

consonant?1521

warbling1549

harmoniousc1550

tunable1579

symphonical1589

symphoniacal1650

symphonious1652

consonous1654

harmonic1667

symphonous1814

symphonic1864

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms Prol. l. 10 Þis booc..is also seid a sawteer, þe whiche name it tooc of a Musik instrument þat ebruly is clepid nablum, greekly a sawteer.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xliv. 5 Preise we glorious men..in þer wisdam sechinge þe musik maneris [a1425 L.V. maneres of musik; L. modos musicos] & telling þe dites of scriptures.

1571 T. Whythorne Songes iii. f. 30 The musicke tunes of voyce or sound, doth helpe the eares, and doth expell, al sorowes that ye hart doth wound.

1579 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (Edinb.) 522 in Shorter Poems (1967) 41 Thair Musick tones [?1553 London musik, tones] war mair cleir And dulcer than the mouing of the Spheir Or Orpheus' Harp of Thrace.

1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C4^v Clap a siluer tongue within This pallat, that..I may..Haue euery sillable a musick stop.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iii. i. 159 I..That suck'd the Honie of his Musicke [1604 musickt] Vowes.

1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 142 Her Singing Limbs. The Earth buried them, preserving to them still their musick-property.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. iii. 30 Many music Instruments had obteined a Barbaric name.

1851 Judge i. iii. 26 Love's music voice will never greet your ear, Affection's eye will never meet your gaze.

a1880 J. Very Compl. Poems (1993) 159 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.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

music adviser n. (also music advisor)

ΚΠ

1931 Motion Picture Herald 1 Aug. 68/1 The music advisor of the schools acted as master of ceremonies for the occasion.

1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 at Foss, Hubert James During the war he..was music adviser to Eastern Command E.N.S.A.

2011 J. Spinazzola in M. K. Slayton Women of Influence Contemp. Music 254 From 1996 to 1997, she [sc. Tania León] was new music advisor to Kurt Mazur and the New York Philharmonic.

music biz n.

ΚΠ

1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Jan. d5 Jackson Browne..has remained somewhat of a music-biz misfit; a singer in search of a song.

1994 M.E.A.T. Sept. 14/1 Perseverance in the music biz is a virtue. Few endure the struggle.

music business n.

ΚΠ

1868 H. Child Gazetteer & Business Directory Madison County, N.Y. 19/2 The largest capital in the music business in Central New York.

1926 V. Geoffrion Music Business i. 3 Musicians who have wrung from the music business more than an average return.

1993 Wired Mar. (Premiere Issue) 69/2 Those interchangeable performers, are the bread and butter of the music business.

music cabinet n.

ΚΠ

1883 Heal & Son Catal. Sept. 216 Music Cabinet, Walnut or Ebonised.

1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Apr. 4/4 It does not matter to us what style of piano you may have we can give you a music cabinet style to harmonize.

1993 Belfast Tel. May (BNC) Walnut four drawer music cabinet, £185.

music critic n.

ΚΠ

1846 Sci. Amer. 31 Oct. 43/4 (heading) A music critic.

1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans p. v The difference between the leisure of a Persian cat and the labor of a cockney cab horse is not greater than the difference between the official weekly or fortnightly play-goings of the theatre critic and the restless daily rushing to and fro of the music critic.

1999 Independent 11 Jan. ii. 7/6 Erudition and slangy wit are the stock-in-trade of the music critic Will Friedwald.

music desk n.

ΚΠ

1788 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 13 Oct. (1997) I. 716 P[ai]d. for 2 musick desks 7f4.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 172 ‘Tap-tap-tap,’ went the leader's bow on the music-desk.

1948 Penguin Music Mag. June 54 Sir Henry Wood..recommended the use of spring-clip mutes which fastened on the music desks.

music folio n.

ΚΠ

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 255/1 Music-folio, Music-wrapper, a case or book for holding loose music.

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 247/1 Music Folio, imitation leather, spring back.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 47 (advt.) If you are weary of expending money for unsatisfactorily-arranged flimsy ‘music folios’, join the Scribner Music Club.

music lesson n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > music-lesson

music lesson1604

1604 W. Smith in E. Grymeston Miscelanea sig. A2 Hauing in charge from you to get you the choisest of my late departed Mistresse hir Musicke Lessons: I found among them [etc.].

1820 H. Edgeworth Let. 21 Aug. in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 226 They were just finishing their music lesson.

1992 S. Tharoor Show Business (1995) iii. 155 Ashok is seated on a dhurrie on the floor, taking music lessons from a maestro.

music library n.

ΚΠ

1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes II. vi. 109 I wish I had a nice little music-library—well chosen, and that the only new pieces sent me were those of genuine merit.

1923 Radio Times 28 Sept. 34/2 (advt.) Complete Music Library for Your home. Four volumes for accomplished Performers, Two volumes for children and beginners..a full repertory of music.

1990 M. M. Mirabito & B. L. Morgenstern New Communications Technol. v. 101/1 A music library functions like a sophisticated database, and each song in the library can be cross-referenced by the artist and title name.

music mag n.

ΚΠ

1986 Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Sept. 2 (headline) Sale of music mags makes millions for owners.

1996 Big Issue 15 July 29/1 One music-mag hack dubbed her an ‘interview Nazi’.

music magazine n.

ΚΠ

1913 (title) Music magazine and musical stage review.

1946 (title) Penguin music magazine.

1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 232/2 The notoriously fickle British music magazines, who adored her grunge-rock sound.., proclaimed her their new genius.

music meeting n.

ΚΠ

1649 E. Benlowes (title) A poetick descant upon a private musick-meeting.

1664 S. Pepys Diary 5 Oct. (1971) V. 290 To the Musique-meeting at the post office, where I was once before.

1769 T. Gray Let. 24 June in Corr. (1971) III. 1065 Mr. Reinholt, & Miss Thomas, great names at Salisbury & Gloster musick-meeting.

1837 C. Darwin Let. 28 Aug. in Corr. (1986) II. 40 I had not forgotten the music meeting.

1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) V. 947/2 The pianoforte trios were mainly written for performance at private music meetings.

music mistress n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > music scholar > [noun] > teacher

music master1623

singing-master1711

music mistress1814

répétiteur1837

1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. iii. xxv. 116 She had been forced to make the young music-mistress come along with her, for company.

1843 C. Brontë Let. 6 Mar. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. xii. 284 In the day-time it is a public room, where music masters and mistresses are constantly passing in and out.

1953 C. Day Lewis Short Dirge for St. Trinian's in R. Searle Souls in Torment 176 Now poison ivy twines the dorm where casks Were broached and music mistresses were flayed.

music-monger n.

ΚΠ

1784 J. Potter Virtuous Villagers I. 100 Music-monger.

1833 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches I. 208 Your Amiens is generally (like the majority of male music-mongers) a stiff-limbed piece of humanity.

1999 Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 15 Oct. 39 Skunk Anansie..play the Great Hall in Exeter with support from Devon music-mongers Muse.

music rack n.

ΚΠ

1850 C. M. Kirkland Fountain & Bottle 156 She then gathered up the music..and placed it neatly in the music-rack.

1916 E. H. Porter Just David i. 2 There were..two music-racks, two violins with their cases, and everywhere books.

1999 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 5 Apr. (Features) 1 The music rack is a silhouette of the Manhattan skyline.

music school n.

ΚΠ

1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros iv. 96 The musicke schoole did teach him her sweet art.

1638 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 388 Seing that the musik schooll is altogidder dekayit within this burgh.

1675 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1950) X. 220 He being resolved..to keep ane publict musick schoall.

1834 New Eng. Mag. Jan. 28 He taught a music school..in some other country town.

1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 4 Jan. 40/1 Pimlico houses..a music school that offers both a fully comprehensive education and free, specialist music tuition.

music student n.

ΚΠ

1874 G. W. Winterburn in Galaxy Aug. 181/2 [We need not] expect to see a large increase in superior native talent until the number of music-lovers and music-students is greatly increased.

1915 W. Cather Song of Lark iii. ii. 261 She was a poor music student, and Jessie Darcey was a popular and petted professional.

1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xv. 109 Claude..could not decide if he should enter. He watched as the Abbé instructed his secret music student.

music teacher n.

ΚΠ

1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. 108 He called at Miss Matson's, to enquire for the famous music-teacher.

1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xvii. 239 She visited at the doctor's house..and the music teacher's.

1992 Daily Mirror TV Weekly 3 Oct. 13/1 A friendship between a music teacher from Berkshire and an American prisoner on death row.

b. Objective, instrumental, etc.

music lover n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun]

symphone1572

philharmonic1762

music lover1822

melomaniac1836

melomane1857

musical1861

musicophile1931

1822 G. Croly Catiline v. ii. 137 You are a music-lover, and sigh Greek.

1864 T. S. King White Hills 160 What music-lover has not often longed that he might hear the fine strains of the masters in the summer, in the open air.

1933 Maclean's 15 July 32/4 Music lovers will thrill at the music of His Majesty's Scots Guards, and thirty other bands.

1991 What Hi-Fi? Oct. 76 A good tape deck at home is an absolute must for every music lover.

music-making n.

ΚΠ

1843 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 21 Oct. 48/1 What has he to do with a lodging in the brain and memory of every man, and in the heart and music-making of every woman in the country!

1877 A. A. Whitman Not Man, Yet Man 124 And her mountain stillness breaking, With her first sweet music making.

1946 Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 10 Since the early eighteenth century the music festival has been one of the most important and sustaining influences in English music-making.

1998 Gramophone Jan. 100/2 I enjoyed all this music-making a great deal.

music publisher n.

ΚΠ

1842 E. Sargent What's to be Done iii. 39 The music publishers would refuse even to examine his manuscripts.

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xvi. 199 She was a stenographer in a music-publisher's office when we first met.

1995 New Scientist 11 July 25/1 The two websites targeted by the music publishers contain tablature for guitar and bass.

music seller n.

ΚΠ

1780 Adam's Weekly Courant 4 July Martha French, Widow of George French, late of this City, Toyman and Music Seller.

1793 J. Farington Diary 4 Oct. (1978) I. 68 Storace sold the Song called Captivity, to Dall [sic], the music seller, at the corner of Holles St. Cavendish square, for £50.

1897 T. Hardy Well-beloved i. ii. 20 To drown the local ballads by songs purchased at the Budmouth fashionable music-sellers'.

1999 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 15 Apr. b3 Grady [is] marketing director for GoodNoise Inc., a Redwood City company that is trying to become an online music seller.

† music-drawing adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1788 W. Cowper Stanzas for Year 12 The musick-drawing bow.

† music-flowing adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury lxxxiii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 322 I Present thee with this music-flowing shell.

music-footed adj.

ΚΠ

1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois v. 60 Thy Musique-footed horse.

1985 N. Mackey Eroding Witness 90 Broken music-footed ghost whose low tolling of chords would make the still waters run.

music-hungry adj.

ΚΠ

1843 Musical World 30 Oct. 121/1 The good folks of Stamford must be very music-hungry, to take any fare that is offered.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 5/1 In the boy's eyes was the rapt expression of a music-hungry soul.

1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Dec. 12 (advt.) This companion book of the major PBS series..introduces families, children and music-hungry readers of all ages to the joy of music.

music-loving adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [adjective]

musicala1500

music-loving?1613

philharmonic1740

?1613 T. Campion Two Bks. Ayres ii. xii. sig. L The musicke-louing birds are come From cliffes and rockes vnknowne.

1732 J. Whaley Coll. Poems 259 Thou, Asteria, Musick-loving Goddess, Down from Eubæa camest.

1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold ii. v. 112 Just as the music-loving public were rising from their intellectual feast, the rain came down in streams of water.

1991 Montana June 74/3 Whitlock's automatic harp vied with banjo machines..for the pocket change of the music-loving public.

music-mad adj.

ΚΠ

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xi A great genius, music-mad.

1832 J. M. Herbert Let. in C. Darwin Corr. (1985) 15 Apr. I. 223 Cambridge has been Music Mad this spring.

1995 Opera News (Nexis) Oct. 66 The proliferation of record books now available was then just a gleam in some musicmad writer's eye.

† music-panting adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. ii. 73 [A nightingale] Sick with sweet love, droops dying away On its mate's music-panting bosom.

music-sounding adj.

ΚΠ

1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood sig. A3 Will you stand spending your inuentions treasure, To teach Stage parrats speake for pennie pleasure, While you your selues like musicke sounding Lutes Fretted and strunge, gaine them their silken sutes.

1925 E. Sitwell et al. Poor Young People 20 To music-sounding moonlight.

† music-stirring adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 58 The music-stirring motion of its soft and busy feet.

music-stunned adj. rare

ΚΠ

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Sex, Lit. & Censorship (1955) 114 The dream of our pathetic, music-stunned young girl of today.

† music-tongued adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. ii. 74 Echoes, music-tongued, which draw..All spirits on that secret way.

1892 J. Skipsey Songs & Lyrics 28 Has Effie..Not pined hour by hour since he promised to meet her, And met with this music-tongued Lilly instead?

C2.

music appreciation n. (the cultivation of) an informed response to music, esp. as an elementary form of music education, widely taught in schools from the mid 20th cent.; frequently attributive (usually with hyphen).

ΚΠ

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues viii. 117 We had a ritual for these music-appreciation classes.

1977 Parade (Washington Post) 9 Oct. 12/3 The show happened to follow a broadcast of Walter Damrosch's music appreciation hour from New York.

1994 Amer. Demographics Aug. 26/1 Baby busters had less exposure than boomers to music-appreciation classes in school.

music band n. now rare a band of musicians.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band

companyc1503

noise1558

musica1586

band1660

music band1812

1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms iv. 442 The music bands both near and far Are playing.

1880 W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) III. 615 After waiting forty minutes later for a music-band, which, to my secret satisfaction, didn't come, we, and the Hiawatha went off without it.

2000 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Electronic ed.) 10 July Music band Travis began the festivities..with their single Why Does it Always Rain on Me?

† music-bell n. chiefly Scottish Obsolete a bell forming part of a set of bells or carillon in a church (usually in plural).

ΚΠ

1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. 192 Half an Hour before Twelve at Noon, when the Musick Bells begin to play, frequently called the Gill-Bells.

1755 J. Smeaton Diary 29 June in Journey to Low Countries (1938) 30 The musick bells at this Town are reckoned the finest in the 7 provinces.

1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. II. 208 Ring the second music-bell.

music book n. a book containing written or printed music.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book

music book1597

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 1 Musicke bookes..being brought to the table: the mistresse of the house presented mee with a part, earnestly requesting mee to sing.

a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. iv. sig. E8^v, in Five New Playes (1653) My Lute, and a few Musick-books.

1757 in E. Singleton Social N.Y. under Georges (1902) 290 Lost; a musick-book, the principal fiddle of twelve concertos, entitled Dominico Scarlatti's Lessons.

1895 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Grey Lady i. ix The Spaniard opened the music-book and indicated the page.

1991 J. Trollope Rector's Wife i. 11 With a music book propped against a milk bottle, Flora was playing slow, unlovely exercises on her flute.

music cassette n. a tape cassette of pre-recorded music.

ΚΠ

1975 Business Week (Nexis) 15 Sept. 18 Frontier, which sells rock-music cassettes.]

1979 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East Weekly Econ. Rep. (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 7 Nov. FE/W1056/A/9 Music cassettes and videotapes from the Taipingyang audiovisual recording studio in Canton.

2001 Bath Chron. (Electronic ed.) 9 Feb. Last week, I sent my friend Fiona a music cassette by David Gray.

music club n. a club for promoting music, or where music is performed.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > society or club

music club1672

collegium musicum1873

1672 E. Ravenscroft Citizen turn'd Gentleman i. i. 4 You would do well once a week to have a Musick Club at your house, and play and sing in consort.

1740 R. Verney Let. 11 Nov. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) II. xxix. 185 Mr. Millward on returning..from the inn at East Claydon, where there is a Musicck [sic] Club instituted, fell down.

1869 Littell's Living Age 24 July 207/2 The members of the music-club..sang at the open grave.

1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. iii. 429/2 Luanda's music clubs are bursting at the seams until the small hours.

music demy n. a size of paper used for printing music (see quot. 1859).

ΚΠ

1859 Stationers' Hand-bk. 74 Music Demy, see short demy. [Short Demy, a white thick soft paper, used by music publishers for printing music, 21 by 14½ inches.]

1967 F. J. M. Wijnekus Dict. Printing & Allied Industries App. 542 Paper size names in Britain and America...music demy.

music director n. [compare German Musikdirektor (18th cent.)] = musical director n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > conductor

manuductor1728

conductor1787

musical director1818

timekeeper1818

music director1839

band-master1858

MD1926

1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. iii. 140 He was Music-Director at various German theatres.

1895 New Eng. Mag. Jan. 660/2 In accordance with the by-laws of the society, Mason served as music director as well as president.

1993 Classical Music Mag. (Mississauga, Ont.) Feb. 18 The new prince..began to expand his court's musical and theatrical activities, entrusting more and more artistic and administrative details to his assistant music director.

music festival n. a festival featuring performances by various different musicians, bands, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > music festival

stethva1612

festival1753

music festival1790

musical festival1804

Eisteddfod1822

Sängerfest1865

mod1891

Oireachtas1896

songfest1903

biennial1928

pop festival1951

folkfest1963

fleadh1966

rockfest1966

fleadh cheoil1972

festie1988

1790 J. Woodforde Diary 8 Sept. (1927) iii. 212 Norwich Music Festival begun this morning.

1855 N. Amer. Rev. July 271 There is..an annual music-festival at Hereford.

1946 Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 10 Since the early eighteenth century the music festival has been one of the most important and sustaining influences in English music-making.

1997 Big Issue 2 June 4/4 New Age travellers living on a large Brighton site are to be ‘run out of town’ following noise complaints about a music festival.

music gallery n. a gallery for musicians in a church, hall, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > place of performance or practice > [noun] > concert room or hall

music room1608

odeuma1610

music housea1641

music gallery1682

concert room1731

Odeon1734

concert hall1747

music hall1749

1682 London Gaz. No. 1726/4 A Suit of Vocal and Instrumental Musick from the Odeum or Musick Gallery.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 105 Quin proposed that we should take our station in the musick-gallery.

1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. iii. 151 A room over the music-gallery used for kitchen stores.

1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Aug. x. 15/1 The Corinthian columns mentioned in Dickens' ‘Pickwick Papers’ are still there, and the music gallery.

music-girl n. now rare a girl engaged to provide musical entertainment.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun] > female

singeressa1382

chantressc1390

singing girl1535

songstress1684

music-girl1734

cantatrice1803

chanteuse1823

canary1862

singstress1873

chantoosie1940

thrush1940

warbler1946

1734 T. Cooke tr. Terence Brothers iii. iv, in tr. Terence Comedys III. 273 Is that Music-girl among ye?

1765 G. Colman tr. Terence Eunuch iii. ii, in tr. Terence Comedies 148 Are you fond of me For sending you that musick-girl?

1886 ‘M. Field’ Brutus Ultor v. iv. 69 He..stroked the head of a little music-girl, urging her to play you back into comfort.

music-grinder n. an itinerant street musician; a person paid to supply music on request.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > street musician

street musician1784

music-grinder1803

hand organist1805

busker1851

griddler1859

trap-drummer1903

jogah1928

1803 Lit. Mag. & Amer. Reg. Dec. 223/2 In vain we reinforced our orchestra with a music-grinder, and advertised an extra storm of dunder and blixum.

1859 N. P. Willis Convalescent xxiii. 117 An Italian music-grinder who chanced to be on board played vigorously at the bowsprit.

1988 P. Westermeyer Church Musician i. 6 You're one of the church's music grinders, hired to grind out music the way the cook at the fast-food place..is hired to grind out hamburgers.

music historian n. a student of or expert in the history of music.

ΚΠ

1890 G. J. Stoeckel in New Englander (Nwew Haven, Connecticut) Dec. 567 The violinist Mattei, the teacher of Burney, the music historian.

1968 Listener 4 Apr. 448/1 English music historians have, on the whole, concentrated on the chronicling of technical matters.

1979 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 May 32/1 Music historians..have failed or refused to see the composer clearly enough against the background of his religion.

music-historical adj. relating to music history.

ΚΠ

1956 Monumenta Nipponica 12 330 The first part [of the book] offers..the music-historical sources;..a brief music-historical survey.

1991 Jrnl. Royal Mus. Assoc. 116 294 Wagner's mythic image of conflict was..given a specific music-historical content.

music history n. the history and development of music, esp. as a subject of academic study.

ΚΠ

1900 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 829/2 The splendid subject of music history, with its numerous radiating branches.

1954 G. Reese Mus. in Renaissance ix. 512 The expression ‘musica reservata’ has become one of the problems of music history.

1994 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. ii. 24/2 Moshing, one of the most tactile participatory rituals in music history.

music licence n. a magistrates' licence permitting vocal and instrumental entertainments in a public building or room.

ΚΠ

1837 C. Dickens Mudfog Papers 719 The corporation..refused the music licence to the Jolly Boatman.

1999 West Briton (Electronic ed.) 24 June The Lizard Festival has been granted the first ever all-night music licence in Cornwall.

music line n. [compare line n.² 1e] Telecommunications a line whose transmission characteristics are good enough for the transmission of music.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > line

wire1813

line1847

wire line1848

loop1863

landline1865

saddle wire1876

telephone line1877

concentric cable1888

Pupin cable1904

multiple twin1922

quad1922

twisted pair1923

star quad1927

music line1929

coaxial cable1934

coax1945

1929 Radio Times 8 Nov. 393/3 Music lines through Belgium to the whole of Germany..are envisaged for..1930, while it may also be possible to link up to Scandinavia through Hamburg.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 246 A control line..is a telephone circuit on which programme details may be discussed, and is so called to distinguish it from the broad band (i.e. high quality) ‘music line’ along which programme is fed.

1991 New Scientist 26 Jan. 17/2 Radio stations book a so-called music line when they want to broadcast either music or speech from a remote location.

music maker n. a composer or performer of music.

ΚΠ

1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. iii. xxvii. 184 It's Miss Ellis, the music-maker, Ma'am.

1864 R. Browning Dramatis Personæ 49 Schumann's our music maker now.

1994 Mixmag June 52/1 Jungle's music makers tend to rely on pirating musical voices.

music master n. a male teacher or tutor of music.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > teacher of particular subject

music master1623

lectrice1937

Alexander1946

audio-lingualist1961

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun]

music master1623

chef d'orchestre1824

society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > music scholar > [noun] > teacher

music master1623

singing-master1711

music mistress1814

répétiteur1837

1623 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 3rd Bk. xii. 63 They..often frequented one the others company, sometimes at the Dauncing, and Musick Masters.

1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 138 Now look into the Musick Master's gains.

1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 7 507 I see your ladyship's music-master..in the carriage.

1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 32/1 By February 1764 [J. C.] Bach was music master to Queen Charlotte.

music night n. an evening devoted to musical performances.

ΚΠ

1686 Wilding in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 264 At ye Musick-night..00 02 06.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xxi. 116 On music-nights it was apparent that patience could never be an easy virtue to him.

1996 M8 Dec. 10/3 If you're trying to stage a music night then that's one thing, there's a distinct difference to running a night for people to go and get pished with their mates.

music paper n. paper for writing music on; manuscript paper.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > equipment for writing music

manuscript book1593

music paper1648

rostrum1740

scoring-paper1840

1648 B. Gerbier Interpreter Acad. Forrain Langs. i. 182 The Italians (who are regular in all things as Musick paper) haue introduced the art to keepe booke by double partie.

1759 N.Y. Mercury 13 Aug. (advt.) To be sold..rulled Musick Paper in Sheets and in Books.

1859 Stationers' Hand-bk. 74 Music Paper, royal drawing paper, in the 4to size, ruled with the musical stave of five lines.

1975 P. G. Winslow Death of Angel 15 The sleepy man's sweaty fist rested on a sheet of music paper, darkening the pencilled notes.

music-pen n. a pen designed for drawing all the lines of a musical stave simultaneously (also called rastrum).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > pen for specific use

text-pen1589

mapping pen1840

music-pen1840

rastrum1876

highlighter1963

plotter pen1965

wheel pen-

1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. iii. 35 These lines [sc. the lines of the stave] are sometimes drawn upon paper by an instrument called a music pen, consisting of five points at distances corresponding to the distances between the lines.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1502/1 Music-pen, a pen made for ruling at once the five lines which, with the intervening spaces, form the staff of music. The instrument has a brass head and five parallel pens like ruling pens.

music plate n. now historical a printing plate used for printing music (in quot. 1839 used in plural to denote the alloy of antimony, tin, and lead used to make such plates).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other alloys

yellow gold1558

Mannheim gold1790

spelter1815

music plate1839

Florence-leaf1858

silver-powder1875

compo1879

mokum1889

Stellite1913

Vitallium1935

Mazak1937

ceramal1949

cermet1950

metal-ceramic1950

mokume gane1979

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 51 Its [sc. antimony's] chief employment now is in medicine, and in making the alloys called type metal, stereotype metal, music plates, and Britannia metal.

1871 Manufacturer & Builder Jan. 186/2 The alloy of tin and antimony is the alloy used for music-plates.

1984 18th-cent. Stud. 17 464 (note) Music plates, which were of type metal, were more durable than copper.

music-play n. rare a play set to music; a highly theatrical or dramatic opera (cf. music drama n.).

ΚΠ

1885 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 91 His allegorical music-play Die Zauberflöte.

music power n. a measure of amplifier power, based on the highest output obtainable for a short period from an amplifier without significant distortion when a sinusoidal input signal of a standard frequency is passed through it.

ΚΠ

1961 Audio Yearbk. 55/3 In an attempt to standardize on a power output rating..the term ‘music power’ has been developed. The term has been defined as the maximum amplifier power delivered to a resistive load as a result of applying a short-duration 1000-cps sine-wave input signal.

1975 Which? Sept. 275/3 Beware of peak power or music power ratings, which are always much higher. The Rotel, for example, claims 70 watts of music power, when its actual continuous output is 15 watts per channel.

1995 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. Autumn–Winter 604/1 Pye radio/cassette with speakers..50 watts total output (music power)..auto memory store.

music rest n. = music stand n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > accessories > [noun] > music-stand

lectern1557

music stand1762

music rest1874

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > other parts, etc.

ogee front1815

sticker1822

fall1823

string-plate1827

piano leg1852

polychord1858

agraffe1860

mopstick1870

music rest1874

check-bara1877

hammer-action1885

escapement1896

set-off1896

set-off button1896

shift1896

shifting keyboard1896

1874 W. Mathews Getting on in World 2 Standing by his side, but upon a lower platform, and before a lower music-rest, is a patient, careworn man, who saws quietly on the strings.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 659 Its musicrest supporting the music..for voice and piano of Love's Old Sweet Song.

1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 22 Dec. (Living) 14 The boy waited, his head on the music rest, his eyes brimming with tears.

music score n. = score n. 6.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > score

partition1597

score1701

music scorea1750

chart1957

a1750 A. Hill Muses in Mourning i. i. 8 In his hands, a roll of music scores, round a double-headed gilt staff.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xviii. 238 One day..when he had been conning one of his music-scores..he lapsed into listlessness.

1998 Dancing Times May 715/1 She regularly commissions contemporary music scores.

music sheet n. a page of sheet music.

ΚΠ

1852 M. G. L. Duncan Amer. as I found It 156 It is painful to be disturbed during prayer, as sometimes happens by the rustle of music sheets.

1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xviii. 263 Then suddenly he tore up his music-sheets, one by one.

1976 New Yorker 15 Nov. 41/3 They also included bookplates, letterheads, railroad passes, commercial paperweights and music sheets.

music shop n. a shop selling sheet music, musical instruments, etc.

ΚΠ

1699 E. Ward London Spy I. v. 3 We..came amongst the Musick-shops, in one of which were so many Dancing-Masters Prentices.

?1740 in G. F. Handel Israel in Egypt (title page) Printed and Sold by Leon. Lichfield,..and by William Cross, at his Musick-Shop.

1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 204 He declared he would go..to all the old music-shops to try and find it.

1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 304/1 The pictures in the window of a music-shop.

1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. iii. vi. 102 The bulk of record sales for the ‘cutting edge’ rappers came from suburban shopping malls, not inner-city music shops.

† music-smith n. Obsolete a craftsman who makes the metal parts and implements required by musicians.

ΚΠ

1856 Littell's Living Age 10 May 348/1 He answers radiantly that he has served part of his time as a music-smith.

1879 Proc. Royal Soc. 30 526 By these forks I have counted 75 standard forks of Messrs. Valantine and Carr, music smiths.

music speech n. Oxford University now historical a lecture on music given prior to the celebration of the Act (see act n. 7b).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > in universities

music speech1693

union1834

valedictory1847

baccalaureate-sermon1864

inaugural1958

1693 Oxford-act i. 3 Jefferys..Whose Musick-Speech so sore did fright ye The Act that Summer cry'd Good-night t'ye.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 45 The Nymphs of this City [sc. Oxford] are disappointed of a luscious Musick-Speech.

1986 L. S. Sutherland & L. G. Mitchell Hist. Univ. Oxf. V. xxxii. 870 A traditional musical feature of the Act was the music lecture or music speech.

† music-stamper n. Obsolete a vespertilionid bat of South-East Asia (not identified).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous type of

blude-black1647

music-stamper1713

red bat1775

Geoffroy's bat1829

reddish-grey bat1837

notch-eared bat1840

pachyote1865

notched-eared bat1871

valve-tailed bat1871

Negro-bat1885

1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 3 Vespertilio... Musick-Stamper.

music stand n. a rest or light frame used to support sheet music.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > accessories > [noun] > music-stand

lectern1557

music stand1762

music rest1874

1762 G. Colman Musical Lady ii. ii. 39 Away with your music-stands.

1887 I. Randall Lady's Ranche Life Montana 11 I bought a sofa..and music-stand.

1986 New Yorker 7 July 21/2 Lowering the stage entrance..would provide..storage area for chairs, music stands, and the house piano.

music stool n. a stool for a performer on a piano or similar keyboard instrument, usually with an adjustable seat and often incorporating storage space for musical scores.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > accessories > [noun] > music stool

music stool1788

1788 Calcutta Chron. 7 Feb. To be sold..18 Chairs—2 Music-stools.

1826 Lancet 2 Sept. 707/1 You may easily adjust your own height by sitting on a music stool.

1902 J. Conrad Youth 314 He swung half round on the music-stool, listening with his fingertips at rest on the keyboard.

1993 C. Cookson House of Women (BNC) 315 Then she was being dragged up from the music stool and she was being shaken by the shoulders.

music store n. North American = music shop n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods

jeweller's shop1632

ironmongery1648

ironmonger1673

jeweller1675

news shop1688

print shop1689

Indian house1692

coal shed1718

pamphlet shop1721

lormery1725

drugstore1771

hardware store1777

junk store1777

chandler-shop1782

junk shop1790

music store1794

pot shop1794

finding store1822

marine store1837

picture house1838

paint shop1847

news agency1852

chemist1856

Army and Navy1878

cyclery1886

jumble-shop1893

pig shop1896

Manchester department1905

lot1909

craft shop1911

garden centre1912

pet shop1927

sex shop1949

video store1949

quincaillerie1951

home centre1955

Army-Navy1965

cookshop1967

sound shop1972

bucket-shop1973

1794 Charleston (S. Carolina) City Directory 6 Bradford & co. music store.

1860 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 18 Aug. 96/2 At the music-store, an upstart clerk..winked at a fellow behind the counter when he viewed my home-made pantaloons.

1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 7 Aug. c4/3 Music stores are flooded with ‘unplugged’ albums.

music system n. a set of equipment for reproducing or recording music; = sound system n. at sound n.³ Compounds 2b(a)(i).

ΚΠ

1930 Ukiah (Calif.) Republican Press 2 Apr. 1/4 A music system..may be installed in the courthouse plaza to furnish music during summer evenings... The idea is to install four stadium dynamic speakers.

1969 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. (Hi Fi and Recordings section) 2/1 Tape cassettes..are..gaining a firm foothold in permanently installed, home-based music systems.

2017 Eastern Eye 7 Apr. 30 The song does have a catchy beat..but not enough power to light up your music system.

music theory n. (the study of) the theoretical aspects of music and its notation, esp. as opposed to actual performance.

ΚΠ

1896 T. Webb (title) The London music theory book.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 58/3 They would surely starve if dependent upon earnings from music-theory teaching.

1992 Economist 30 May 34/1 No youngster fancying his future as a composer need be deterred by an ignorance of music theory, lack of skills or advanced tone deafness.

music therapist n. a practitioner of music therapy.

ΚΠ

1945 Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota 37 272/1 Does the government train musical therapists?]

1948 Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota 40 257/2 A music therapist must be interested in and understand personality and disease.

1995 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (Nexis) 30 July e4 The bride is a music therapist at Sound Practices in Huntsville, Ala.

music therapy n. the therapeutic use of music in the treatment of certain (esp. mental) conditions.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > other forms of therapy

bibliotherapy1920

play therapy1936

art therapy1940

music therapy1944

aversion treatment1950

aversion therapy1956

behaviour therapy1959

marital therapy1961

guided imagery1973

rebirthing1976

imagery work1981

1901 Arena Mar. 295 The use of the Key-note..as a basis of Musical Therapeutics is justified not only by the synchronous tendency of the ear and mind to vibrate sympathetically with all music tones.]

1944 D. K. Antrim in Music Q. 409 Music Therapy is the treatment of physical and mental ills by means of music.

1995 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 29 July 5 Ready to make a living out of music, be it through technology, community music, music therapy, management, librarianship.

music track n. a track of recorded music on a magnetic tape, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > type of

phonogram1878

phonograph record1878

phonautogram1887

re-recording1927

sound picture1928

studio recording1929

talking book1932

wire recording1933

audiobook1942

bootleg1951

music track1953

demo1954

single track1959

soundbite1973

pod2006

1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing iii. xii. 187 It is most important that the dubbing editor should be able to cross fade from the dialogue to the music track at any time.

1991 Amer. Cinematographer Sept. 98/2 He delivered the completed music tracks on half-inch 4-track, which was transferred straight to full coat.

music type n. Printing a type font used for printing sheet music.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > for printing music

music type1825

1825 T. C. Hansard Typographia Index 11 Music type.

1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 488 (caption) C. Hancock's plan of cases for Hughes' music type.

1892 A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing (ed. 4) xxxi. 292 Most of the letter-founders supply music types.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! 11 There are few technical terms and no music-type illustrations.

1968 Listener 27 June 845/2 To demonstrate this [sc. the shapes of this plain-chant melody] would need music-type.

music video n. originally U.S. (a) video recording with musical content; spec. a promotional video for a pop song.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > a video recording > type of

kidvid1955

music video1981

video1981

nasty1982

scratch-tape1982

scratch1985

scratch video1985

mukbang2013

1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Dec. f11 Music video is still waiting for the commercial integration of hardware and software, but we can expect to see more simultaneous releases on vinyl and video in 1982.

1989 HMV Christmas Mag. 21 There's a whole range of films and music videos available now for as little as £4.99.

1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. i. i. 11 One of the most heavily hyped entertainment ‘vents’ in history: the world premiere of the music video ‘Black or White’, from Michael Jackson's album Dangerous.

1999 Scotsman 27 Mar. (i Mag.) 25/4 Music-video director Scott will bring an arresting quality to the visuals.

music wire n. steel wire such as is used in some stringed musical instruments.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > wire > types of

silver wire14..

white wire1463

virginal wire1662

pin-wire1674

binding wire1767

pinion wire1767

electric wire1819

music wire1823

gutta-percha-wire1876

No. eight1876

picture wire1876

number eight1952

microwire1953

plated wire1960

nanowire1990

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > parts generally > string > types of

wirea1387

false string1597

unison1603

unison string1633

drone1793

music wire1823

silver string1876

sympathetic strings1888

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 150 With small musick-wire, cut your making into cakes.

1900 Science 6 July 39/2 The highest point was reached with 4½ miles of music wire as a flying line.

1988 Guns & Weapons Winter 46/1 The return spring is unbreakable coiled music wire.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	music
释义	musicn.adj. Brit. /ˈmjuːzɪk/, U.S. /ˈmjuzɪk/ Forms: Middle English musiqe, Middle English musycque, Middle English mvsik, Middle English 1600s musice, Middle English 1600s musyque, Middle English–1500s musyk, Middle English–1500s musyke, Middle English–1600s musicque, Middle English–1600s musik, Middle English–1600s musike, Middle English–1600s musique, Middle English– music, 1500s mewsycke, 1500s musiike, 1500s musyck, 1500s musycke, 1500s mysyke, 1500s–1600s musicke, 1500s–1600s mvsicke, 1500s– musick (now archaic and historical), 1600s musickque, 1600s mvsick, 1600s mvsique, 1700s musicck (irregular), 1800s moosick (English regional and U.S. regional); Scottish pre-1700 muisik, pre-1700 museik, pre-1700 musicke, pre-1700 musike, pre-1700 musilk, pre-1700 musique, pre-1700 mussik, pre-1700 musyk, pre-1700 musyke, pre-1700 mwseik, pre-1700 mwsick, pre-1700 mwssick, pre-1700 1700s musik, pre-1700 1700s–1800s musick, pre-1700 1700s– music, 1700s misic (north-eastern), 1700s– meesick (north-eastern), 1800s maizick, 1800s masic, 1800s moosick, 1800s– maisic, 1900s– meesic (north-eastern), 1900s– moosic (Orkney). Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French musik, musique; Latin mūsica. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French, Middle French, French musique (c1150 in Old French) and its etymon classical Latin mūsica the art and theory of music, musical sounds, music, in post-classical Latin also this art personified (5th cent.) < ancient Greek μουσική art presided over by the Muses, especially poetry sung to music, use as noun (short for μουσική τέχνη ; compare classical Latin ars mūsica ) of feminine of μουσικός relating to the Muse or Muses (applied generally to artistic culture, poetry, etc., but also specific to music; > classical Latin mūsicus ) < μοῦσα muse n.¹ + -ικός -ic suffix. In sense A. 3 < post-classical Latin musica (plural) musical instruments (Vetus Latina, Vulgate; in classical Latin as mūsica in sense ‘musical matters, the art or principles of music’), use as noun of neuter plural of mūsicus musical (see above).Compare Old Occitan muzica (mid 13th cent.; Occitan mesico , musico ), Catalan música , Spanish música (c1250), Italian musica (c1250), Portuguese música (14th cent.), and also Middle Dutch musīke (Dutch muziek ), Middle Low German mūsike , mūseke , Old High German musica (Middle High German mūseke , mūsic , early modern German music , German Musik ), Swedish †musica (1536), musik (1579 in form musich )). Among parallel senses of the word in Middle French are: ‘particular genre or style of music’ (15th cent.; compare sense A. 2b), ‘product of the art of music, musical work’ (1553; compare sense A. 2a), ‘company of musicians’ (1553; compare sense A. 5a). A. n. I. Musical art, performance, or composition. 1. a. The art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds to produce beauty of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, expressive content, etc.; musical composition, performance, analysis, etc., as a subject of study; the occupation or profession of musicians.The word has often been used specifically to denote the art of musical performance, sometimes with particular reference to instrumental performance, although contextually it can denote other branches, as composition, musicology, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > [noun] musica1325 musicry1598 ceol1899 tuneage1985 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 460 Wit of musike, wel he knew. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 164 The science of Musique..techeth upon Armonie A man to make melodie. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 258 (MED) Hys brothyr Iuball he began musyke, ose mynstralsy and sang. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. xii. 37 Of this science of musyque cometh alle attemperaunce. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiv. sig. Hij In the bokes of Tulli, men may deprehende, that in hym lacked nat the knowlege of geometrye, ne musike, ne grammer. 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. diij An Architect (sayth he [sc. Vitruvius]) ought to..haue heard Philosophers, haue skill of Musike, not ignorant of Physike [etc.]. 1638 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 388 That na maner of persone sould be permittit to teitch musik within this burgh..except [etc.]. 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. i. §9 Writing, needle-works, languages, music, or the like. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 29. ¶13 Musick, Architecture, and Painting..are to deduce their Laws and Rules from the general Sense and Taste of Mankind. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xi. 107 They can pink, point, and frill; and know something of music. 1827 R. Whately Elements Logic (ed. 2) i. 18 There must have been..musical compositions previous to the science of Music. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 77/1 Music..is that one of the fine arts which appropriates the phenomena of sound to the purposes of poetry. 1924 Outlook 29 Oct. 331/1 The time is at hand when music as a profession for Americans will no longer entail financial sacrifice. 1947 C. Gray Contingencies i. 20 [Musical appreciation] aims at fostering a love of music among the populace..by teaching music..in very much the same way as one would teach any other subject in the educational curriculum. 1995 Mixmag May 67/2 Music's always been Steve's abiding obsession, since playing guitar in an agit-prop punk band. b. Chiefly poetic. With capital initial. This art personified. ΚΠ ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. pr. i. 49 With Rethorice com forth Musice, a damoysele of our hous. ?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 638 (MED) Musyk hadde, voyde off all discorde, Boece, hire clerke, with hevenly armonye. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xviii. 77 Than forth so went good Counsell and I,..By Musykes toure walked most goodly. 1580 A. Munday Paine of Pleasure (1938) f. 7^v Who seekes himselfe to Musickes arte to frame, And very young is set to Musickes schoole: In other Arts prooues commonly a foole. 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xi. 103 Hath not Musicke her figures, the same which Rhetorique? 1747 W. Collins Odes 46 When Music, Heav'nly Maid, was young. 1812 J. Ellison Amer. Captive i. ii. 13 Music shall waft her loftiest strains, whilst joy..beams forth from every eye. 1892 W. A. Ellis tr. R. Wagner Art-work of Future in Prose Wks. I. 152 So Poetry leaves behind her feeling and her pathos..and throws her net of modern Intrigue around her sister Music. 2. a. The vocal or instrumental sound produced by practical exercise of the art of music (whether live, pre-recorded, etc.). †in (good, true) music: in tune (obsolete).broken music: see broken adj. 15. music of the spheres: see sphere n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] gleec897 mirtheOE dreamOE soundc1330 entunec1369 musica1382 noisec1390 sonnetc1400 cant1704 tonation1728 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > [adverb] in (good, true) musica1382 in or out of tunec1450 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxxii. 5 Forsothe ther semeth thee ferst the wrd of loouende kunnyng; and lette thou not musik. c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2235 Iesus Syrak seith that musik in wepyng is anoyous thyng. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 497 Sirenes..singe, With notes..of such musike, Wherof the Schipes thei beswike. c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls 62 The melodye herde he That cometh of thilke speris thryes thre, That welle is of musik. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 267^v That made grete feste of theyr comyng in many manyers of Instrumentis of musycque. a1535 Frere & Boye 98 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 65 A pype thou shalte haue also, In true musyke it shall go. 1588 W. Byrd Reasons to learne to Sing in Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs sig. A3^v There is not any Musicke of Instruments whatsoeuer, comparable to that which is made of the voyces of Men. 1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 366^v/1 The armony And sweet accord was in so good musike That the voice to Angels most was like. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 308 With their voyces and cimbals, they make pleasant musicke. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xii, in Poems 6 Such Musick (as 'tis said) Before was never made. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1643 (1955) II. 96 The young king..was entertaind with the Church musique. 1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 21 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 261 We ended the day with music at S: Agnes. 1769 T. Gray Ode at Installation Duke of Grafton 63 Sweet music's melting fall. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. iv. 328 A soft strain of music stole up from the garden. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xx. 228 There was music..in harmony with so funereal a spectacle. 1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xi. 112 The music of the military and other bands is unusually excellent. 1909 G. Stein Three Lives 154 The noises in the full streets, and the music of the organs, and the dancing. 1914 G. B. Shaw Misalliance 55 Have the gramophone... No, thank you: no music. 1948 E. Waugh Loved One i. 3 The ever present pulse of music from the neighbouring native huts. 1959 C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 183 I put on some music and abluted, then made two Nescafés. 1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo vi. 154 He opened the back door and for a moment they heard music coming from the cabin. b. Usually with defining word or phrase: a particular style, genre, or tradition of musical performance or composition; (also) the work of a particular composer or writer. Often treated as a count noun in later use.For established compounds see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] music1545 sound1963 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 9^v Whether..these galiardes, pauanes and daunces..be lyker the Musike of the Lydians or the Dorians. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 191 The second sort of them are plaiers vpon instruments, cheefelie the Harpe and the Crowth: whose musike for the most part came to Wales with the said Gruffyth ap Conan. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 682 Agathon..first brought up the Chromaticke musicke. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 5 Oct. (1971) V. 290 After three hours' stay, it [sc. the ‘arched viall’] could not be Fixt in tune; and so they were fain to go to some other Musique of instruments. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 18 Apr. (1965) I. 351 As if a Foreigner should take his Ideas of English Music from..the marrow bones and cleavers. 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. 346 He [sc. Gregory] formed that ecclesiastical music so grave and edifying, which at present is called the Gregorian music. 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. iv. 158 The others showed a most decided penchant for the ancient Greek music. 1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 25 July 126/1 Weber was the true founder of the great German school of romantic music. 1881 Athenæum 26 Mar. 437/1 A certain want of variety in the colouring of his music. 1898 I. L. Bird Korea & her Neighbours I. xii. 191 There are three classes of Korean vocal music, the first being the Si-jo or ‘classical’ style. 1931 Week-End Rev. 24 Oct. 515/1 It looks as if the music of Jean Sibelius were at last coming into its own this winter. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 819/2 The Russian development of a national music..served to some extent as an incentive to Rumanian musicians. 1975 New Yorker 10 Feb. 111/1 It is..an overextended loosely rhapsodic sequence of procedures from traditional black and modern white musics. 1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State vii. 242 The breaks and bass boosts..would be the building blocks on which a new music was built. c. Vocal or instrumental sounds put together in melodic, harmonic, or rhythmical combination, as by a composer; a composed musical setting (frequently including both melody and accompaniment) to which a poem, etc., may be sung; (also) the musical accompaniment to a ballet, play, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > [noun] > as devised by composer music1574 1574 (title) A briefe and plaine instruction, to set all musicke of 8 diuers tunes in tableture for the lute. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 180 Canzonets, that is little shorte songs..which is in composition of the musick a counterfet of the Madrigal. 1607 T. Hume (title) Captain Humes poeticall musicke, principally made for two basse-viols. 1645 (title) Poems of Mr. John Milton... The songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Capriccio's are pieces of Music, Poetry, and Painting, wherein the force of Imagination has better success than observation of the Rules of Art. 1696 P. A. Motteux (title) The loves of Mars & Venus. A play set to music. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 18. ¶2 That nothing is capable of being well set to Musick, that is not Nonsense. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xiii. 223 If the Poet select and adapt proper Music to his Poem. 1808 Monthly Pantheon 1 85/1 An immense expense..the reward of the composer, who selected and arranged the music. 1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) ix. 79 A firework piece of music, in which execution takes the place of melody. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 87/2 Schütz wrote music to a translation of Peri's Dafne. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) vii. 257 Corthell composed the words and music for a carol which had a great success. 1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz 11 I wrote a piece of music for this scene. 1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Mar. 47/1 The musically inclined may want to set some to music or perform a rap. 3. A musical instrument. Formerly esp. in †to play on music (also in plural). regional in later use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > collectively musica1382 minstrelsyc1390 set1561 orchestra1770 musical1809 family1842 instrumentarium1893 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 3 Esd. v. 2 Þei broȝten hem in to ierusalem..with musikis & tymbres & trumpis. c1400 Apocalypse St. John: B Version (Harl. 171) (1971) 96 (MED) Neuere aftir schal be herd in hir voice of harpis, neiþir of musikis, neiþir of pipers, [etc.]. 1556 in F. R. Raines Hist. Chantries Lancaster (1862) II. 262 He was grave and chaste, could play on the musiques, and was noe typler nor dyce man. 1656 Duchess of Newcastle Natures Pictures 370 Tutors..for all sorts of Vertues, as singing, dancing, playing on Musick, reading, writing, working, and the like. 1671 A. Behn Amorous Prince iii. iii. 46 An Artist I vow; canst play on any Musick? c1693 Player's Trag. 6 He was Handsom, cou'd Sing, Dance, and Play on the Musick. 1752 W. Halfpenny & J. Halfpenny Rural Archit. in Chinese Taste i. 6 A Room, wherein Musicians may be secreted (and play on soft Musick to the agreeable Surprize of Strangers). 1785 C. Macklin Man of World v. 58 He made love verses upon her in praise of her virtue, and her playing upon the music. a1800 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. (1814) 147 A fond Mother..will exultingly tell you that Miss ‘learned herself to play upon the Musick’. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 78 Music, any musical instrument. a1903 R. Barrett in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 211/1 [Sussex] Let me go fetch my music. 1929 Amer. Speech 5 19 An old lady said to a man carrying a guitar: ‘Fetch yore music inter th' house—th' dew'll warp it.’ 4. As a count noun: a musical composition or performance. Now archaic and historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > [noun] workOE musica1586 composure?1606 composition1667 writings1672 morceau1748 op.1784 piece1825 opusc1840 confection1844 number1865 oeuvre1889 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. vi. sig. Ll7 Musickes at her windowe, & especially such Musickes, as might..call the mind to thinke of sorow, and thinke of it with sweetnes. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. ix. 69 Vnlesse it be in small & popular Musickes song by these Cantabanqui vpon benches and barrels heads. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 37 I haue assayl'd her with Musickes, but she vouchsafes no notice. View more context for this quotation 1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers ii. 29 I came to Present my Lady Vaine with a musique I have made. 1674 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 7) 46 Exclamations may be used in all Passionate Musicks. 1788 H. Newdigate Let. in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) v. 79 She was at ye Musick at Derby. 1807 E. Wynne Diary 24 Apr. (1952) xxix. 481 I asked the Duke de Berri to come to our little music on Monday next. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros iii. 31 He..commanded them saying, ‘Play me a solemn music.’ 1942 Scrutiny 10 4/376 It was just as natural for him [sc. Elgar] to compose Pomp and Circumstance and the other occasional musics that so alarm the purists as it was for him to compose the..Enigma Variations. 1985 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Apr. 423/4 The..players could have been called upon for both interludes and ‘musics’. 5. a. A company of musicians (in early use also in plural in same sense). In later use chiefly Military: that component of a military force charged with sounding signals on musical instruments (cf. sense A. 5b). Now chiefly historical.In the later 20th cent. revived (usually in form Musick) in the names of a number of ensembles devoted to the performance of early music.Master of the (King's, Queen's) Music: see master n.¹ 23a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band companyc1503 noise1558 musica1586 band1660 music band1812 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ii. sig. Il8^v The Musicke entring alone into the lodge, the Ladies were all desirous to see from whence so pleasant a guest was come. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 210 Play Musique then: nay you must do it soone. View more context for this quotation 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 216 The musique playes, vouchsafe some motion to it. View more context for this quotation 1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. sig. B2 When sodainely vpon silence made to the Musikes, a voyce was heard to vtter this verse. a1639 S. Marmion Antiquary (1641) ii. i Julia, go throw the Music a reward. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 19 Dec. (1972) VII. 414 He says many of the Musique are ready to starve, they being five years behindhand for their wages. 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Feb. (1948) II. 482 A scoundrel dog, one of the queen's musick, a German. 1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 102 The music of the chapel performed several Italian airs. 1810 Mil. Compan. (U.S. War Dept.) v. 22 The music marches between the Captain and first section. 1847 Infantry Man. (1854) 75 The drummers and music are in the rear. 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 224 Field music, the music of a military body in contradistinction to the band. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music XI. 154/1 In the middle of James I's reign the King's Music was about 40 strong. 1994 Gramophone July 99/3 The Cardinall's Musick deliver clear and serviceable readings. b. U.S. Military. In the U.S. Marines: a soldier responsible for sounding signals on a musical instrument; (now) spec. a trumpeter, a bugler. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > signaller or musician waitc1325 trumpeter1497 drum?1535 drum major1589 trumpettier1609 drum-major general1676 bugler1792 fife-major1802 pipe major1816 Bugle Major1844 signaller1845 bugle boy1848 trumpet-major1855 bugleman1859 bunting-tosser1905 buzzer1915 music1915 1915 L. B. Willson Sailor's Prayer in Our Navy (U.S.) Aug. 29/1 So, Lord, find out where ‘music’ swings, And stuff his horn with spuds and things, And lash him in his ‘bloomin' hay’ So he won't sound his ‘roundelay’. 1917 Marines Mag. Jan. 27 Sentry! Sentry! Take this music out and hang him—yes, hang him. 1922 Leatherneck 22 Apr. 4 It was a mere boy in forestry green flourishing a shiny bugle—a Marine ‘music’. 1984 J. R. Elting et al. Dict. Soldier Talk 205/2 Music, an infantry bugler or cavalry trumpeter. In the Marines music is a shortened version of company musician—originally drummers, later a bugler. Like their Army counterparts, they sounded the daily calls in peacetime routine or combat. 6. The written or printed score of a musical composition; such scores collectively; musical composition as represented by conventional graphic symbols.sheet music: see sheet n.¹ Compounds 3d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] pricksonga1450 pricked song1463 musicc1615 dot1919 c1615 (title) Parthenia, or the Maydenhead of the first musicke that euer was printed for the Virginalls. 1688 T. Salmon Proposal to perform Musick 19 That the Writers of Musick may more certainly know where to fix their Flats and Sharps. 1759 N.Y. Mercury 13 Aug. (advt.) A great collection of wrote and printed Musick from Italy and England. 1762 G. Colman Musical Lady i. ii. 15 (stage direct.) Tunes the instrument, and turns over several pieces of music. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. x. 209 She shook her head, put the music aside..and closed the instrument. View more context for this quotation 1835 New-Eng. Mag. Oct. 309 Many pupils in these classes read music more readily..than the leaders of choirs. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 3/2 We alone..print over a ton weight of music week by week. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 178 Mr Bell..stood ready with his music but the accompanist made no sign. 1951 E. Taylor Game of Hide-and-seek i. ii. 51 He played without music; mostly, his glance was sidelong down at the keyboard. 1996 E. Lovelace Salt xi. 199 He couldn't read music..just a fella who could go anywhere and draw people to him with a cuatro or a guitar. †7. Each of the short keys, now usually black, on the keyboard of an organ. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > keyboard > short keys music1694 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 156 The Breves representing the Tones of the broad Gradual Keys of an Organ; the Semibreves representing the Narrow Upper Keys, which are usually called Musics. II. Extended uses. 8. a. Sound produced naturally which is likened to music in being rhythmical or pleasing to the ear, as the song of birds, the sound of running water, etc. (occasionally used ironically). ΚΠ c1460 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 781 (MED) Iayes in musyk haue smal experyence. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R5 She more sweete, then any bird on bough, Would..Striue to passe..Their natiue musicke by her skilful art. ?1593 G. Fletcher Licia xiv. 15 My love lay sleeping, where birdes musicke made. 1597 A. Montgomery Cherrie & Slae 86 To heir the startling streames cleire, I thocht it musike to the eire. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 28 Clashing of swords was then daily musicke in every street. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 88. ⁋7 Milton, whose ear had been accustomed..to the music of the ancient tongues. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 141 These naked shoots, Barren as lances, among which the wind Makes wintry music. 1825 Lancet 17 Sept. 365/2 The music of the loom, the roar of the furnace, and the explosion of the mine, were the moral thunders by which a government could best disperse the clouds. 1836 W. Irving Astoria III. 25 Musquitoes, which, with their stings and their music, set all sleep at defiance. 1876 L. Morris Epic of Hades ii. 67 Streams Laughed with a rippling music. 1947 P. Kavanagh Soul for Sale 13 When we put our ears to the pailing-post The music that came out was magical. 1987 W. McPherson Sargasso Sea (1988) v. 329 The pianist was taking a break, the only music now the chirping of the tree frogs. b. The cries of a pack of hounds on seeing the chase. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > [noun] > cry of hounds bayc1300 mutea1375 questc1400 music1600 crash1781 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > in hunting bayc1300 mutea1375 music1600 crash1781 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 105 My loue shall heare the musicke of my hounds. View more context for this quotation 1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. i. 7 With these three parts of musique you shall make your cry perfect. 1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) i. 23 What musick doth a pack of Dogs then make. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones xvi. ii I had rather hear thy voice than the musick of the best pack of dogs in England. 1808 F. Skurray Bidcombe Hill 9 The cheerful music of the opening hounds. 1885 Field 7 Feb. 148/2 The music of the pack as they settled to the line. 1930 G. R. Mott in C. Frederick et al. Foxhunting xxvii. 266 The sterling hunting qualities of this pack, together with their superb music, have brought them to the notice of the finest hound breeders in the land. 1991 Sports Illustr. 14 Jan. 5/3 Now the beagles are in ‘full cry’—the yelping, howling racket known as the ‘music of the hounds’. c. slang (chiefly Military). The sound of gunfire or other ordnance. ΚΠ 1650 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 25. 351 That night I planted my Ordnance, and Morter Peece, and plaid the next morning, which musike was so operative, that..the Governour desired a Parley. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 225 With that another Volley of great and small Shot: When this Musick [Fr. musique] had lasted about an Hour, they [etc.]. 1864 C. W. Wills Army Life 327 Have heard no ‘music’ today. 1865 H. Johnson Tending Talking Wire 250 I would give the words of the ‘song’, but I went to making music on my spencer and didn't get to hear it all. 1927 E. Stockwell Private E. Stockwell 131 It settled down to picket firing with an occasional artillery bombardment. So we had the same old music we had had all summer. 1992 G. Garry This ol' Drought 141 Get up in the rocks and play some Winchester [rifle] music for the locals. 9. a. Chiefly in figurative context. Something likened to music by virtue of its beauty or charm, or the pleasure which it produces. Frequently in music to one's ears: something which it is gratifying to hear, pleasant news (see also quot. 1597 at sense A. 8a).In quot. 1699 in negative context, applied to bad news. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > pleasant quality musica1586 euphonia1591 euphony1623 chimingness1674 silveriness1856 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [noun] > musical or harmonious quality > sound musica1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xvii. sig. Aa4 What Histories may euer make my fame yeeld so sweete a Musicke to my eares, as that [etc.]? a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 518 It is my Fathers Musicke To speake your deeds. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 118 The time was once, when thou vn-vrg'd wouldst vow, That neuer words were musicke to thine eare,..Vnlesse I spake..to thee. View more context for this quotation 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 25 The hearing of such conjugal faithfulness will be Musick to all chaste ears. View more context for this quotation a1668 W. Davenant Fair Favorite (1673) v. i I shall now be kil'd, Even with the musick of her voice. 1694 J. Collier Misc. v. 63 But when People have nothing but Fears, and Jealousies and Plots in their Heads, there is no Musick in their Company. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Musick It makes ill Musick, of any unwelcome..News. 1704 W. M. Female Wits iii Whilst my Ears devour your protested Love, my Heart dances to the Musick of your Vows. 1750 M. Jones Misc. in Prose & Verse 116 Artless lays, To her and Lovelace tund, grow music in their praise. 1777 W. Combe Diabo-lady 12 What music to my ears, to hear him yell. 1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos i. vi. 179 The mind—the Music breathing from her face. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xciv. 142 Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. View more context for this quotation 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. iii. 45 The stirring sunlight, and the growing vines..made a pleasant music for the mind. 1899 F. W. O. Ward Eng. Roses 174 The wild shudder of the rudder Was music to his ears. 1908 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 5/5 Unless you understand that Shakespeare was a man who was writing music with words you will never understand anything about Shakespeare at all. 1959 Listener 15 Jan. 107/2 As a figurative artist she is not strong, but as a maker of pure visual music she is, usually if not always, excellent. 1994 Guardian 12 Nov. 29/7 Such scientific justifications for the good life are music to the ears of those who identify a growth in so-called health fascism. †b. to step music: to step with rhythmical grace. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 243 The performers stepped music, their action was grace. c. euphemistic. to make (beautiful) music (together): to have sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse playOE to do (also work) one's kindc1225 bedc1315 couple1362 gendera1382 to go togetherc1390 to come togethera1398 meddlea1398 felterc1400 companya1425 swivec1440 japea1450 mellc1450 to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474 engender1483 fuck?a1513 conversec1540 jostlec1540 confederate1557 coeate1576 jumble1582 mate1589 do1594 conjoin1597 grind1598 consortc1600 pair1603 to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608 commix1610 cock1611 nibble1611 wap1611 bolstera1616 incorporate1622 truck1622 subagitate1623 occupya1626 minglec1630 copulate1632 fere1632 rut1637 joust1639 fanfreluche1653 carnalize1703 screw1725 pump1730 correspond1756 shag1770 hump1785 conjugate1790 diddle1879 to get some1889 fuckeec1890 jig-a-jig1896 perform1902 rabbit1919 jazz1920 sex1921 root1922 yentz1923 to make love1927 rock1931 mollock1932 to make (beautiful) music (together)1936 sleep1936 bang1937 lumber1938 to hop into bed (with)1951 to make out1951 ball1955 score1960 trick1965 to have it away1966 to roll in the hay1966 to get down1967 poontang1968 pork1968 shtup1969 shack1976 bonk1984 boink1985 1930 M. Laing Make Music, Baby (MS song) Make music, Baby, make some music for me.] 1936 S. J. Perelman in New Yorker 26 Dec. 18/1 I tell you, it's like gall in my mouth two young people shouldn't have a room where they could make great music. 1967 F. Mullally Prizewinner vii. 117 He could say good-bye to any hope of making music later on with the Swede. 1967 ‘E. Queen’ Face to Face xviii. 84 Glory didn't like Gouch—she used to say they didn't make music together. 1969 H. Nielsen Darkest Hour xxi. 238 You and Buddy can make beautiful music together. 1972 C. Short Naked Skier xxi. 115 I think we should make music together. 1995 Village Voice (N.Y.) 7 Mar. 13/1 He'd like to make beautiful music with..a former three-term town supervisor of East Hampton. †10. slang. A band of highwaymen or similar robbers. Esp. in the music's paid (see quot. 1699). Obsolete.In quot. a1627 apparently with a more general allusion to sense A. 5. ΚΠ a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) iii. i. 27 Ans. Y'ar not that kind of Gentleman, I hope sir, To sing me out of my money? La. 'Tis most fit Art should be rewarded: you must pay your Musick sir Where ere you come... Come, come your purse sir. 1693 Jacobite Robber 21 The Coach was set upon..but the Lady telling the Gang the Musick was paid, they let the Coach pass by. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Musick The Musick's paid, the Watch-word among High-way-men, to let the Company they were to Rob, alone, in return to some Courtesy. 11. †a. Pleasure, amusement. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun] lustc888 lustfulnessa900 queemnesseOE mirtheOE estec1000 winOE queemc1175 sweetness?c1225 solace1297 dutea1300 lustinga1300 joyingc1300 jollityc1330 lustiheadc1369 lustinessc1374 sweet1377 voluptyc1380 well-pleasinga1382 pleasancec1385 pleasurea1393 volupta1398 easementc1400 pleasingc1400 complacencec1436 pleasec1475 satisfaction1477 likancea1500 oblectation1508 beauty1523 aggradation1533 pleasurancec1540 joc1560 likement1577 contentment1587 beloving1589 gratification1598 savouriness1599 entertain1601 pleasedness1626 well-apaidness1633 well-pleasedness1633 pleasingness1649 complacency1652 adlubescence1656 enjoyment1665 volupe1669 musica1674 pleasantry1740 barrel of fun (laughs, etc.)1915 a1674 Ld. Clarendon Hist. Rebellion (1816) III. ii. xvi. 870 The pride and forms of a Spanish breeding..disposed him [sc. Don Juan] to laziness and taking his music. b. U.S. colloquial. Originally: liveliness; excitement; fun, sport; (also) sense of the ridiculous (now rare). Later: trouble, disturbance. Cf. musical adj. 6. See also to face the music at face v. Phrases 1g. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigour or liveliness jollinessc1386 liveliheadc1425 quicknessc1425 vyfnes1475 ramagec1485 couragea1498 liveliness1534 spritec1540 livelihood1566 life1583 sprightliness1599 sprightfulness1602 ruach1606 sprightiness1607 sparkle1611 airiness1628 vivacy1637 spiritfulness1644 spirit1651 vivacity1652 spiritedness1654 brightness1660 sprightness1660 ramageness1686 race1690 friskiness1727 spirituousness1727 vivaciousness1727 brio1731 raciness1759 phlogiston1789 animation1791 lifefulness1829 pepper-and-salt1842 corkiness1845 aliveness1853 vitality1858 music1859 virtu1876 liveness1890 zippiness1907 bounce1909 zing1917 radioactivity1922 oomph1937 pizzazz1937 zinginess1938 hep1946 vavoom1962 welly1977 masala1986 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Music, amusement, fun. ‘Jim is a right clever fellow; there is a great deal of music in him.’ a1872 Lett. from South in M. Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 618 Jake is not without his vein of fun, music they call it down here. 1886 E. L. Wheeler N.Y. Nell 18 I'm on the war-path now; so look out for music. 1890 Cent. Dict. Music,..diversion; sport; also, sense of the ridiculous... (New Eng.) 1891 Scribner's Mag. July 104/2 I am going to send this letter to the Countess Coronna... You perceive there may be music. Hence I..choose Ike Williams as my messenger. 1922 in H. Ruhm Hard-boiled Detective (1977) 24 John B. Combs cut a big figure and his son's arrest made some music. 1973 Playboy Jan. 250/1 [If] I knew how much music it was gonna cost me, I would've paid the extra dough to take it out. †12. Entomology. The light arches moth, Apamea lithoxylaea, a pale European noctuid moth with obscure markings on the forewings (perhaps from the resemblance of its markings to written music). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > graphiphora musiva music1832 musive1832 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 65 The Music (X[ylophasia] lithoxylea, Stephens) appears the beginning of July. 13. Golf. Flexibility or give in the shaft of a golf club. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > flexibility of shaft music1890 1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 57 A heavy head may bring just the right amount of life—of what Tom Morris calls ‘music’—out of a very stiff shaft. 1903 W. J. Travis Pract. Golf (rev. ed.) ix. 111 The man with a less rapid swing will get equally as long a ball by using a more supple shaft. The more ‘music’ there is in the shaft, however, the greater is the liability to slice or pull. B. adj. (attributive). = musical adj.Found mainly in contexts where musical would disrupt a poetic metre. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > [adjective] musica1382 musical1447 rural1488 harmonic1570 harmonical1603 pure1605 tuneful1697 melophonic1843 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [adjective] > musical or harmonious musica1382 cordant1382 melodiousa1425 musicala1449 consonant?1521 warbling1549 harmoniousc1550 tunable1579 symphonical1589 symphoniacal1650 symphonious1652 consonous1654 harmonic1667 symphonous1814 symphonic1864 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms Prol. l. 10 Þis booc..is also seid a sawteer, þe whiche name it tooc of a Musik instrument þat ebruly is clepid nablum, greekly a sawteer. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xliv. 5 Preise we glorious men..in þer wisdam sechinge þe musik maneris [a1425 L.V. maneres of musik; L. modos musicos] & telling þe dites of scriptures. 1571 T. Whythorne Songes iii. f. 30 The musicke tunes of voyce or sound, doth helpe the eares, and doth expell, al sorowes that ye hart doth wound. 1579 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (Edinb.) 522 in Shorter Poems (1967) 41 Thair Musick tones [?1553 London musik, tones] war mair cleir And dulcer than the mouing of the Spheir Or Orpheus' Harp of Thrace. 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C4^v Clap a siluer tongue within This pallat, that..I may..Haue euery sillable a musick stop. a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iii. i. 159 I..That suck'd the Honie of his Musicke [1604 musickt] Vowes. 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 142 Her Singing Limbs. The Earth buried them, preserving to them still their musick-property. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. iii. 30 Many music Instruments had obteined a Barbaric name. 1851 Judge i. iii. 26 Love's music voice will never greet your ear, Affection's eye will never meet your gaze. a1880 J. Very Compl. Poems (1993) 159 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. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. music adviser n. (also music advisor) ΚΠ 1931 Motion Picture Herald 1 Aug. 68/1 The music advisor of the schools acted as master of ceremonies for the occasion. 1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 at Foss, Hubert James During the war he..was music adviser to Eastern Command E.N.S.A. 2011 J. Spinazzola in M. K. Slayton Women of Influence Contemp. Music 254 From 1996 to 1997, she [sc. Tania León] was new music advisor to Kurt Mazur and the New York Philharmonic. music biz n. ΚΠ 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Jan. d5 Jackson Browne..has remained somewhat of a music-biz misfit; a singer in search of a song. 1994 M.E.A.T. Sept. 14/1 Perseverance in the music biz is a virtue. Few endure the struggle. music business n. ΚΠ 1868 H. Child Gazetteer & Business Directory Madison County, N.Y. 19/2 The largest capital in the music business in Central New York. 1926 V. Geoffrion Music Business i. 3 Musicians who have wrung from the music business more than an average return. 1993 Wired Mar. (Premiere Issue) 69/2 Those interchangeable performers, are the bread and butter of the music business. music cabinet n. ΚΠ 1883 Heal & Son Catal. Sept. 216 Music Cabinet, Walnut or Ebonised. 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Apr. 4/4 It does not matter to us what style of piano you may have we can give you a music cabinet style to harmonize. 1993 Belfast Tel. May (BNC) Walnut four drawer music cabinet, £185. music critic n. ΚΠ 1846 Sci. Amer. 31 Oct. 43/4 (heading) A music critic. 1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans p. v The difference between the leisure of a Persian cat and the labor of a cockney cab horse is not greater than the difference between the official weekly or fortnightly play-goings of the theatre critic and the restless daily rushing to and fro of the music critic. 1999 Independent 11 Jan. ii. 7/6 Erudition and slangy wit are the stock-in-trade of the music critic Will Friedwald. music desk n. ΚΠ 1788 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 13 Oct. (1997) I. 716 P[ai]d. for 2 musick desks 7f4. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 172 ‘Tap-tap-tap,’ went the leader's bow on the music-desk. 1948 Penguin Music Mag. June 54 Sir Henry Wood..recommended the use of spring-clip mutes which fastened on the music desks. music folio n. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 255/1 Music-folio, Music-wrapper, a case or book for holding loose music. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 247/1 Music Folio, imitation leather, spring back. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 47 (advt.) If you are weary of expending money for unsatisfactorily-arranged flimsy ‘music folios’, join the Scribner Music Club. music lesson n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > music-lesson music lesson1604 1604 W. Smith in E. Grymeston Miscelanea sig. A2 Hauing in charge from you to get you the choisest of my late departed Mistresse hir Musicke Lessons: I found among them [etc.]. 1820 H. Edgeworth Let. 21 Aug. in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 226 They were just finishing their music lesson. 1992 S. Tharoor Show Business (1995) iii. 155 Ashok is seated on a dhurrie on the floor, taking music lessons from a maestro. music library n. ΚΠ 1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes II. vi. 109 I wish I had a nice little music-library—well chosen, and that the only new pieces sent me were those of genuine merit. 1923 Radio Times 28 Sept. 34/2 (advt.) Complete Music Library for Your home. Four volumes for accomplished Performers, Two volumes for children and beginners..a full repertory of music. 1990 M. M. Mirabito & B. L. Morgenstern New Communications Technol. v. 101/1 A music library functions like a sophisticated database, and each song in the library can be cross-referenced by the artist and title name. music mag n. ΚΠ 1986 Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Sept. 2 (headline) Sale of music mags makes millions for owners. 1996 Big Issue 15 July 29/1 One music-mag hack dubbed her an ‘interview Nazi’. music magazine n. ΚΠ 1913 (title) Music magazine and musical stage review. 1946 (title) Penguin music magazine. 1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 232/2 The notoriously fickle British music magazines, who adored her grunge-rock sound.., proclaimed her their new genius. music meeting n. ΚΠ 1649 E. Benlowes (title) A poetick descant upon a private musick-meeting. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 5 Oct. (1971) V. 290 To the Musique-meeting at the post office, where I was once before. 1769 T. Gray Let. 24 June in Corr. (1971) III. 1065 Mr. Reinholt, & Miss Thomas, great names at Salisbury & Gloster musick-meeting. 1837 C. Darwin Let. 28 Aug. in Corr. (1986) II. 40 I had not forgotten the music meeting. 1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) V. 947/2 The pianoforte trios were mainly written for performance at private music meetings. music mistress n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > music scholar > [noun] > teacher music master1623 singing-master1711 music mistress1814 répétiteur1837 1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. iii. xxv. 116 She had been forced to make the young music-mistress come along with her, for company. 1843 C. Brontë Let. 6 Mar. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. xii. 284 In the day-time it is a public room, where music masters and mistresses are constantly passing in and out. 1953 C. Day Lewis Short Dirge for St. Trinian's in R. Searle Souls in Torment 176 Now poison ivy twines the dorm where casks Were broached and music mistresses were flayed. music-monger n. ΚΠ 1784 J. Potter Virtuous Villagers I. 100 Music-monger. 1833 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches I. 208 Your Amiens is generally (like the majority of male music-mongers) a stiff-limbed piece of humanity. 1999 Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 15 Oct. 39 Skunk Anansie..play the Great Hall in Exeter with support from Devon music-mongers Muse. music rack n. ΚΠ 1850 C. M. Kirkland Fountain & Bottle 156 She then gathered up the music..and placed it neatly in the music-rack. 1916 E. H. Porter Just David i. 2 There were..two music-racks, two violins with their cases, and everywhere books. 1999 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 5 Apr. (Features) 1 The music rack is a silhouette of the Manhattan skyline. music school n. ΚΠ 1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros iv. 96 The musicke schoole did teach him her sweet art. 1638 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 388 Seing that the musik schooll is altogidder dekayit within this burgh. 1675 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1950) X. 220 He being resolved..to keep ane publict musick schoall. 1834 New Eng. Mag. Jan. 28 He taught a music school..in some other country town. 1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 4 Jan. 40/1 Pimlico houses..a music school that offers both a fully comprehensive education and free, specialist music tuition. music student n. ΚΠ 1874 G. W. Winterburn in Galaxy Aug. 181/2 [We need not] expect to see a large increase in superior native talent until the number of music-lovers and music-students is greatly increased. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark iii. ii. 261 She was a poor music student, and Jessie Darcey was a popular and petted professional. 1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xv. 109 Claude..could not decide if he should enter. He watched as the Abbé instructed his secret music student. music teacher n. ΚΠ 1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. 108 He called at Miss Matson's, to enquire for the famous music-teacher. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xvii. 239 She visited at the doctor's house..and the music teacher's. 1992 Daily Mirror TV Weekly 3 Oct. 13/1 A friendship between a music teacher from Berkshire and an American prisoner on death row. b. Objective, instrumental, etc. music lover n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] symphone1572 philharmonic1762 music lover1822 melomaniac1836 melomane1857 musical1861 musicophile1931 1822 G. Croly Catiline v. ii. 137 You are a music-lover, and sigh Greek. 1864 T. S. King White Hills 160 What music-lover has not often longed that he might hear the fine strains of the masters in the summer, in the open air. 1933 Maclean's 15 July 32/4 Music lovers will thrill at the music of His Majesty's Scots Guards, and thirty other bands. 1991 What Hi-Fi? Oct. 76 A good tape deck at home is an absolute must for every music lover. music-making n. ΚΠ 1843 N. P. Willis in New Mirror 21 Oct. 48/1 What has he to do with a lodging in the brain and memory of every man, and in the heart and music-making of every woman in the country! 1877 A. A. Whitman Not Man, Yet Man 124 And her mountain stillness breaking, With her first sweet music making. 1946 Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 10 Since the early eighteenth century the music festival has been one of the most important and sustaining influences in English music-making. 1998 Gramophone Jan. 100/2 I enjoyed all this music-making a great deal. music publisher n. ΚΠ 1842 E. Sargent What's to be Done iii. 39 The music publishers would refuse even to examine his manuscripts. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xvi. 199 She was a stenographer in a music-publisher's office when we first met. 1995 New Scientist 11 July 25/1 The two websites targeted by the music publishers contain tablature for guitar and bass. music seller n. ΚΠ 1780 Adam's Weekly Courant 4 July Martha French, Widow of George French, late of this City, Toyman and Music Seller. 1793 J. Farington Diary 4 Oct. (1978) I. 68 Storace sold the Song called Captivity, to Dall [sic], the music seller, at the corner of Holles St. Cavendish square, for £50. 1897 T. Hardy Well-beloved i. ii. 20 To drown the local ballads by songs purchased at the Budmouth fashionable music-sellers'. 1999 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 15 Apr. b3 Grady [is] marketing director for GoodNoise Inc., a Redwood City company that is trying to become an online music seller. c. † music-drawing adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1788 W. Cowper Stanzas for Year 12 The musick-drawing bow. † music-flowing adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury lxxxiii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 322 I Present thee with this music-flowing shell. music-footed adj. ΚΠ 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois v. 60 Thy Musique-footed horse. 1985 N. Mackey Eroding Witness 90 Broken music-footed ghost whose low tolling of chords would make the still waters run. music-hungry adj. ΚΠ 1843 Musical World 30 Oct. 121/1 The good folks of Stamford must be very music-hungry, to take any fare that is offered. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 5/1 In the boy's eyes was the rapt expression of a music-hungry soul. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Dec. 12 (advt.) This companion book of the major PBS series..introduces families, children and music-hungry readers of all ages to the joy of music. music-loving adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [adjective] musicala1500 music-loving?1613 philharmonic1740 ?1613 T. Campion Two Bks. Ayres ii. xii. sig. L The musicke-louing birds are come From cliffes and rockes vnknowne. 1732 J. Whaley Coll. Poems 259 Thou, Asteria, Musick-loving Goddess, Down from Eubæa camest. 1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold ii. v. 112 Just as the music-loving public were rising from their intellectual feast, the rain came down in streams of water. 1991 Montana June 74/3 Whitlock's automatic harp vied with banjo machines..for the pocket change of the music-loving public. music-mad adj. ΚΠ 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xi A great genius, music-mad. 1832 J. M. Herbert Let. in C. Darwin Corr. (1985) 15 Apr. I. 223 Cambridge has been Music Mad this spring. 1995 Opera News (Nexis) Oct. 66 The proliferation of record books now available was then just a gleam in some musicmad writer's eye. † music-panting adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. ii. 73 [A nightingale] Sick with sweet love, droops dying away On its mate's music-panting bosom. music-sounding adj. ΚΠ 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood sig. A3 Will you stand spending your inuentions treasure, To teach Stage parrats speake for pennie pleasure, While you your selues like musicke sounding Lutes Fretted and strunge, gaine them their silken sutes. 1925 E. Sitwell et al. Poor Young People 20 To music-sounding moonlight. † music-stirring adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 58 The music-stirring motion of its soft and busy feet. music-stunned adj. rare ΚΠ a1930 D. H. Lawrence Sex, Lit. & Censorship (1955) 114 The dream of our pathetic, music-stunned young girl of today. † music-tongued adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. ii. 74 Echoes, music-tongued, which draw..All spirits on that secret way. 1892 J. Skipsey Songs & Lyrics 28 Has Effie..Not pined hour by hour since he promised to meet her, And met with this music-tongued Lilly instead? C2. music appreciation n. (the cultivation of) an informed response to music, esp. as an elementary form of music education, widely taught in schools from the mid 20th cent.; frequently attributive (usually with hyphen). ΚΠ 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues viii. 117 We had a ritual for these music-appreciation classes. 1977 Parade (Washington Post) 9 Oct. 12/3 The show happened to follow a broadcast of Walter Damrosch's music appreciation hour from New York. 1994 Amer. Demographics Aug. 26/1 Baby busters had less exposure than boomers to music-appreciation classes in school. music band n. now rare a band of musicians. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band companyc1503 noise1558 musica1586 band1660 music band1812 1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms iv. 442 The music bands both near and far Are playing. 1880 W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) III. 615 After waiting forty minutes later for a music-band, which, to my secret satisfaction, didn't come, we, and the Hiawatha went off without it. 2000 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Electronic ed.) 10 July Music band Travis began the festivities..with their single Why Does it Always Rain on Me? † music-bell n. chiefly Scottish Obsolete a bell forming part of a set of bells or carillon in a church (usually in plural). ΚΠ 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. 192 Half an Hour before Twelve at Noon, when the Musick Bells begin to play, frequently called the Gill-Bells. 1755 J. Smeaton Diary 29 June in Journey to Low Countries (1938) 30 The musick bells at this Town are reckoned the finest in the 7 provinces. 1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. II. 208 Ring the second music-bell. music book n. a book containing written or printed music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book music book1597 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 1 Musicke bookes..being brought to the table: the mistresse of the house presented mee with a part, earnestly requesting mee to sing. a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. iv. sig. E8^v, in Five New Playes (1653) My Lute, and a few Musick-books. 1757 in E. Singleton Social N.Y. under Georges (1902) 290 Lost; a musick-book, the principal fiddle of twelve concertos, entitled Dominico Scarlatti's Lessons. 1895 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Grey Lady i. ix The Spaniard opened the music-book and indicated the page. 1991 J. Trollope Rector's Wife i. 11 With a music book propped against a milk bottle, Flora was playing slow, unlovely exercises on her flute. music cassette n. a tape cassette of pre-recorded music. ΚΠ 1975 Business Week (Nexis) 15 Sept. 18 Frontier, which sells rock-music cassettes.] 1979 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East Weekly Econ. Rep. (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 7 Nov. FE/W1056/A/9 Music cassettes and videotapes from the Taipingyang audiovisual recording studio in Canton. 2001 Bath Chron. (Electronic ed.) 9 Feb. Last week, I sent my friend Fiona a music cassette by David Gray. music club n. a club for promoting music, or where music is performed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > society or club music club1672 collegium musicum1873 1672 E. Ravenscroft Citizen turn'd Gentleman i. i. 4 You would do well once a week to have a Musick Club at your house, and play and sing in consort. 1740 R. Verney Let. 11 Nov. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) II. xxix. 185 Mr. Millward on returning..from the inn at East Claydon, where there is a Musicck [sic] Club instituted, fell down. 1869 Littell's Living Age 24 July 207/2 The members of the music-club..sang at the open grave. 1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. iii. 429/2 Luanda's music clubs are bursting at the seams until the small hours. music demy n. a size of paper used for printing music (see quot. 1859). ΚΠ 1859 Stationers' Hand-bk. 74 Music Demy, see short demy. [Short Demy, a white thick soft paper, used by music publishers for printing music, 21 by 14½ inches.] 1967 F. J. M. Wijnekus Dict. Printing & Allied Industries App. 542 Paper size names in Britain and America...music demy. music director n. [compare German Musikdirektor (18th cent.)] = musical director n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > conductor manuductor1728 conductor1787 musical director1818 timekeeper1818 music director1839 band-master1858 MD1926 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. iii. 140 He was Music-Director at various German theatres. 1895 New Eng. Mag. Jan. 660/2 In accordance with the by-laws of the society, Mason served as music director as well as president. 1993 Classical Music Mag. (Mississauga, Ont.) Feb. 18 The new prince..began to expand his court's musical and theatrical activities, entrusting more and more artistic and administrative details to his assistant music director. music festival n. a festival featuring performances by various different musicians, bands, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > music festival stethva1612 festival1753 music festival1790 musical festival1804 Eisteddfod1822 Sängerfest1865 mod1891 Oireachtas1896 songfest1903 biennial1928 pop festival1951 folkfest1963 fleadh1966 rockfest1966 fleadh cheoil1972 festie1988 1790 J. Woodforde Diary 8 Sept. (1927) iii. 212 Norwich Music Festival begun this morning. 1855 N. Amer. Rev. July 271 There is..an annual music-festival at Hereford. 1946 Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 10 Since the early eighteenth century the music festival has been one of the most important and sustaining influences in English music-making. 1997 Big Issue 2 June 4/4 New Age travellers living on a large Brighton site are to be ‘run out of town’ following noise complaints about a music festival. music gallery n. a gallery for musicians in a church, hall, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > place of performance or practice > [noun] > concert room or hall music room1608 odeuma1610 music housea1641 music gallery1682 concert room1731 Odeon1734 concert hall1747 music hall1749 1682 London Gaz. No. 1726/4 A Suit of Vocal and Instrumental Musick from the Odeum or Musick Gallery. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 105 Quin proposed that we should take our station in the musick-gallery. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. iii. 151 A room over the music-gallery used for kitchen stores. 1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Aug. x. 15/1 The Corinthian columns mentioned in Dickens' ‘Pickwick Papers’ are still there, and the music gallery. music-girl n. now rare a girl engaged to provide musical entertainment. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun] > female singeressa1382 chantressc1390 singing girl1535 songstress1684 music-girl1734 cantatrice1803 chanteuse1823 canary1862 singstress1873 chantoosie1940 thrush1940 warbler1946 1734 T. Cooke tr. Terence Brothers iii. iv, in tr. Terence Comedys III. 273 Is that Music-girl among ye? 1765 G. Colman tr. Terence Eunuch iii. ii, in tr. Terence Comedies 148 Are you fond of me For sending you that musick-girl? 1886 ‘M. Field’ Brutus Ultor v. iv. 69 He..stroked the head of a little music-girl, urging her to play you back into comfort. music-grinder n. an itinerant street musician; a person paid to supply music on request. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > street musician street musician1784 music-grinder1803 hand organist1805 busker1851 griddler1859 trap-drummer1903 jogah1928 1803 Lit. Mag. & Amer. Reg. Dec. 223/2 In vain we reinforced our orchestra with a music-grinder, and advertised an extra storm of dunder and blixum. 1859 N. P. Willis Convalescent xxiii. 117 An Italian music-grinder who chanced to be on board played vigorously at the bowsprit. 1988 P. Westermeyer Church Musician i. 6 You're one of the church's music grinders, hired to grind out music the way the cook at the fast-food place..is hired to grind out hamburgers. music historian n. a student of or expert in the history of music. ΚΠ 1890 G. J. Stoeckel in New Englander (Nwew Haven, Connecticut) Dec. 567 The violinist Mattei, the teacher of Burney, the music historian. 1968 Listener 4 Apr. 448/1 English music historians have, on the whole, concentrated on the chronicling of technical matters. 1979 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 May 32/1 Music historians..have failed or refused to see the composer clearly enough against the background of his religion. music-historical adj. relating to music history. ΚΠ 1956 Monumenta Nipponica 12 330 The first part [of the book] offers..the music-historical sources;..a brief music-historical survey. 1991 Jrnl. Royal Mus. Assoc. 116 294 Wagner's mythic image of conflict was..given a specific music-historical content. music history n. the history and development of music, esp. as a subject of academic study. ΚΠ 1900 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 829/2 The splendid subject of music history, with its numerous radiating branches. 1954 G. Reese Mus. in Renaissance ix. 512 The expression ‘musica reservata’ has become one of the problems of music history. 1994 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. ii. 24/2 Moshing, one of the most tactile participatory rituals in music history. music licence n. a magistrates' licence permitting vocal and instrumental entertainments in a public building or room. ΚΠ 1837 C. Dickens Mudfog Papers 719 The corporation..refused the music licence to the Jolly Boatman. 1999 West Briton (Electronic ed.) 24 June The Lizard Festival has been granted the first ever all-night music licence in Cornwall. music line n. [compare line n.² 1e] Telecommunications a line whose transmission characteristics are good enough for the transmission of music. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > line wire1813 line1847 wire line1848 loop1863 landline1865 saddle wire1876 telephone line1877 concentric cable1888 Pupin cable1904 multiple twin1922 quad1922 twisted pair1923 star quad1927 music line1929 coaxial cable1934 coax1945 1929 Radio Times 8 Nov. 393/3 Music lines through Belgium to the whole of Germany..are envisaged for..1930, while it may also be possible to link up to Scandinavia through Hamburg. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 246 A control line..is a telephone circuit on which programme details may be discussed, and is so called to distinguish it from the broad band (i.e. high quality) ‘music line’ along which programme is fed. 1991 New Scientist 26 Jan. 17/2 Radio stations book a so-called music line when they want to broadcast either music or speech from a remote location. music maker n. a composer or performer of music. ΚΠ 1814 F. Burney Wanderer II. iii. xxvii. 184 It's Miss Ellis, the music-maker, Ma'am. 1864 R. Browning Dramatis Personæ 49 Schumann's our music maker now. 1994 Mixmag June 52/1 Jungle's music makers tend to rely on pirating musical voices. music master n. a male teacher or tutor of music. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > teacher of particular subject music master1623 lectrice1937 Alexander1946 audio-lingualist1961 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] music master1623 chef d'orchestre1824 society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > music scholar > [noun] > teacher music master1623 singing-master1711 music mistress1814 répétiteur1837 1623 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 3rd Bk. xii. 63 They..often frequented one the others company, sometimes at the Dauncing, and Musick Masters. 1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 138 Now look into the Musick Master's gains. 1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 7 507 I see your ladyship's music-master..in the carriage. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 32/1 By February 1764 [J. C.] Bach was music master to Queen Charlotte. music night n. an evening devoted to musical performances. ΚΠ 1686 Wilding in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 264 At ye Musick-night..00 02 06. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xxi. 116 On music-nights it was apparent that patience could never be an easy virtue to him. 1996 M8 Dec. 10/3 If you're trying to stage a music night then that's one thing, there's a distinct difference to running a night for people to go and get pished with their mates. music paper n. paper for writing music on; manuscript paper. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > equipment for writing music manuscript book1593 music paper1648 rostrum1740 scoring-paper1840 1648 B. Gerbier Interpreter Acad. Forrain Langs. i. 182 The Italians (who are regular in all things as Musick paper) haue introduced the art to keepe booke by double partie. 1759 N.Y. Mercury 13 Aug. (advt.) To be sold..rulled Musick Paper in Sheets and in Books. 1859 Stationers' Hand-bk. 74 Music Paper, royal drawing paper, in the 4to size, ruled with the musical stave of five lines. 1975 P. G. Winslow Death of Angel 15 The sleepy man's sweaty fist rested on a sheet of music paper, darkening the pencilled notes. music-pen n. a pen designed for drawing all the lines of a musical stave simultaneously (also called rastrum). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > pen for specific use text-pen1589 mapping pen1840 music-pen1840 rastrum1876 highlighter1963 plotter pen1965 wheel pen- 1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. iii. 35 These lines [sc. the lines of the stave] are sometimes drawn upon paper by an instrument called a music pen, consisting of five points at distances corresponding to the distances between the lines. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1502/1 Music-pen, a pen made for ruling at once the five lines which, with the intervening spaces, form the staff of music. The instrument has a brass head and five parallel pens like ruling pens. music plate n. now historical a printing plate used for printing music (in quot. 1839 used in plural to denote the alloy of antimony, tin, and lead used to make such plates). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other alloys yellow gold1558 Mannheim gold1790 spelter1815 music plate1839 Florence-leaf1858 silver-powder1875 compo1879 mokum1889 Stellite1913 Vitallium1935 Mazak1937 ceramal1949 cermet1950 metal-ceramic1950 mokume gane1979 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 51 Its [sc. antimony's] chief employment now is in medicine, and in making the alloys called type metal, stereotype metal, music plates, and Britannia metal. 1871 Manufacturer & Builder Jan. 186/2 The alloy of tin and antimony is the alloy used for music-plates. 1984 18th-cent. Stud. 17 464 (note) Music plates, which were of type metal, were more durable than copper. music-play n. rare a play set to music; a highly theatrical or dramatic opera (cf. music drama n.). ΚΠ 1885 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 91 His allegorical music-play Die Zauberflöte. music power n. a measure of amplifier power, based on the highest output obtainable for a short period from an amplifier without significant distortion when a sinusoidal input signal of a standard frequency is passed through it. ΚΠ 1961 Audio Yearbk. 55/3 In an attempt to standardize on a power output rating..the term ‘music power’ has been developed. The term has been defined as the maximum amplifier power delivered to a resistive load as a result of applying a short-duration 1000-cps sine-wave input signal. 1975 Which? Sept. 275/3 Beware of peak power or music power ratings, which are always much higher. The Rotel, for example, claims 70 watts of music power, when its actual continuous output is 15 watts per channel. 1995 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. Autumn–Winter 604/1 Pye radio/cassette with speakers..50 watts total output (music power)..auto memory store. music rest n. = music stand n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > accessories > [noun] > music-stand lectern1557 music stand1762 music rest1874 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > other parts, etc. ogee front1815 sticker1822 fall1823 string-plate1827 piano leg1852 polychord1858 agraffe1860 mopstick1870 music rest1874 check-bara1877 hammer-action1885 escapement1896 set-off1896 set-off button1896 shift1896 shifting keyboard1896 1874 W. Mathews Getting on in World 2 Standing by his side, but upon a lower platform, and before a lower music-rest, is a patient, careworn man, who saws quietly on the strings. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 659 Its musicrest supporting the music..for voice and piano of Love's Old Sweet Song. 1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 22 Dec. (Living) 14 The boy waited, his head on the music rest, his eyes brimming with tears. music score n. = score n. 6. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > score partition1597 score1701 music scorea1750 chart1957 a1750 A. Hill Muses in Mourning i. i. 8 In his hands, a roll of music scores, round a double-headed gilt staff. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xviii. 238 One day..when he had been conning one of his music-scores..he lapsed into listlessness. 1998 Dancing Times May 715/1 She regularly commissions contemporary music scores. music sheet n. a page of sheet music. ΚΠ 1852 M. G. L. Duncan Amer. as I found It 156 It is painful to be disturbed during prayer, as sometimes happens by the rustle of music sheets. 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xviii. 263 Then suddenly he tore up his music-sheets, one by one. 1976 New Yorker 15 Nov. 41/3 They also included bookplates, letterheads, railroad passes, commercial paperweights and music sheets. music shop n. a shop selling sheet music, musical instruments, etc. ΚΠ 1699 E. Ward London Spy I. v. 3 We..came amongst the Musick-shops, in one of which were so many Dancing-Masters Prentices. ?1740 in G. F. Handel Israel in Egypt (title page) Printed and Sold by Leon. Lichfield,..and by William Cross, at his Musick-Shop. 1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 204 He declared he would go..to all the old music-shops to try and find it. 1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 304/1 The pictures in the window of a music-shop. 1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. iii. vi. 102 The bulk of record sales for the ‘cutting edge’ rappers came from suburban shopping malls, not inner-city music shops. † music-smith n. Obsolete a craftsman who makes the metal parts and implements required by musicians. ΚΠ 1856 Littell's Living Age 10 May 348/1 He answers radiantly that he has served part of his time as a music-smith. 1879 Proc. Royal Soc. 30 526 By these forks I have counted 75 standard forks of Messrs. Valantine and Carr, music smiths. music speech n. Oxford University now historical a lecture on music given prior to the celebration of the Act (see act n. 7b). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > in universities music speech1693 union1834 valedictory1847 baccalaureate-sermon1864 inaugural1958 1693 Oxford-act i. 3 Jefferys..Whose Musick-Speech so sore did fright ye The Act that Summer cry'd Good-night t'ye. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 45 The Nymphs of this City [sc. Oxford] are disappointed of a luscious Musick-Speech. 1986 L. S. Sutherland & L. G. Mitchell Hist. Univ. Oxf. V. xxxii. 870 A traditional musical feature of the Act was the music lecture or music speech. † music-stamper n. Obsolete a vespertilionid bat of South-East Asia (not identified). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous type of blude-black1647 music-stamper1713 red bat1775 Geoffroy's bat1829 reddish-grey bat1837 notch-eared bat1840 pachyote1865 notched-eared bat1871 valve-tailed bat1871 Negro-bat1885 1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 3 Vespertilio... Musick-Stamper. music stand n. a rest or light frame used to support sheet music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > accessories > [noun] > music-stand lectern1557 music stand1762 music rest1874 1762 G. Colman Musical Lady ii. ii. 39 Away with your music-stands. 1887 I. Randall Lady's Ranche Life Montana 11 I bought a sofa..and music-stand. 1986 New Yorker 7 July 21/2 Lowering the stage entrance..would provide..storage area for chairs, music stands, and the house piano. music stool n. a stool for a performer on a piano or similar keyboard instrument, usually with an adjustable seat and often incorporating storage space for musical scores. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > accessories > [noun] > music stool music stool1788 1788 Calcutta Chron. 7 Feb. To be sold..18 Chairs—2 Music-stools. 1826 Lancet 2 Sept. 707/1 You may easily adjust your own height by sitting on a music stool. 1902 J. Conrad Youth 314 He swung half round on the music-stool, listening with his fingertips at rest on the keyboard. 1993 C. Cookson House of Women (BNC) 315 Then she was being dragged up from the music stool and she was being shaken by the shoulders. music store n. North American = music shop n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods jeweller's shop1632 ironmongery1648 ironmonger1673 jeweller1675 news shop1688 print shop1689 Indian house1692 coal shed1718 pamphlet shop1721 lormery1725 drugstore1771 hardware store1777 junk store1777 chandler-shop1782 junk shop1790 music store1794 pot shop1794 finding store1822 marine store1837 picture house1838 paint shop1847 news agency1852 chemist1856 Army and Navy1878 cyclery1886 jumble-shop1893 pig shop1896 Manchester department1905 lot1909 craft shop1911 garden centre1912 pet shop1927 sex shop1949 video store1949 quincaillerie1951 home centre1955 Army-Navy1965 cookshop1967 sound shop1972 bucket-shop1973 1794 Charleston (S. Carolina) City Directory 6 Bradford & co. music store. 1860 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 18 Aug. 96/2 At the music-store, an upstart clerk..winked at a fellow behind the counter when he viewed my home-made pantaloons. 1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 7 Aug. c4/3 Music stores are flooded with ‘unplugged’ albums. music system n. a set of equipment for reproducing or recording music; = sound system n. at sound n.³ Compounds 2b(a)(i). ΚΠ 1930 Ukiah (Calif.) Republican Press 2 Apr. 1/4 A music system..may be installed in the courthouse plaza to furnish music during summer evenings... The idea is to install four stadium dynamic speakers. 1969 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. (Hi Fi and Recordings section) 2/1 Tape cassettes..are..gaining a firm foothold in permanently installed, home-based music systems. 2017 Eastern Eye 7 Apr. 30 The song does have a catchy beat..but not enough power to light up your music system. music theory n. (the study of) the theoretical aspects of music and its notation, esp. as opposed to actual performance. ΚΠ 1896 T. Webb (title) The London music theory book. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 58/3 They would surely starve if dependent upon earnings from music-theory teaching. 1992 Economist 30 May 34/1 No youngster fancying his future as a composer need be deterred by an ignorance of music theory, lack of skills or advanced tone deafness. music therapist n. a practitioner of music therapy. ΚΠ 1945 Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota 37 272/1 Does the government train musical therapists?] 1948 Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota 40 257/2 A music therapist must be interested in and understand personality and disease. 1995 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (Nexis) 30 July e4 The bride is a music therapist at Sound Practices in Huntsville, Ala. music therapy n. the therapeutic use of music in the treatment of certain (esp. mental) conditions. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > other forms of therapy bibliotherapy1920 play therapy1936 art therapy1940 music therapy1944 aversion treatment1950 aversion therapy1956 behaviour therapy1959 marital therapy1961 guided imagery1973 rebirthing1976 imagery work1981 1901 Arena Mar. 295 The use of the Key-note..as a basis of Musical Therapeutics is justified not only by the synchronous tendency of the ear and mind to vibrate sympathetically with all music tones.] 1944 D. K. Antrim in Music Q. 409 Music Therapy is the treatment of physical and mental ills by means of music. 1995 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 29 July 5 Ready to make a living out of music, be it through technology, community music, music therapy, management, librarianship. music track n. a track of recorded music on a magnetic tape, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > type of phonogram1878 phonograph record1878 phonautogram1887 re-recording1927 sound picture1928 studio recording1929 talking book1932 wire recording1933 audiobook1942 bootleg1951 music track1953 demo1954 single track1959 soundbite1973 pod2006 1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing iii. xii. 187 It is most important that the dubbing editor should be able to cross fade from the dialogue to the music track at any time. 1991 Amer. Cinematographer Sept. 98/2 He delivered the completed music tracks on half-inch 4-track, which was transferred straight to full coat. music type n. Printing a type font used for printing sheet music. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > for printing music music type1825 1825 T. C. Hansard Typographia Index 11 Music type. 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 488 (caption) C. Hancock's plan of cases for Hughes' music type. 1892 A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing (ed. 4) xxxi. 292 Most of the letter-founders supply music types. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! 11 There are few technical terms and no music-type illustrations. 1968 Listener 27 June 845/2 To demonstrate this [sc. the shapes of this plain-chant melody] would need music-type. music video n. originally U.S. (a) video recording with musical content; spec. a promotional video for a pop song. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > a video recording > type of kidvid1955 music video1981 video1981 nasty1982 scratch-tape1982 scratch1985 scratch video1985 mukbang2013 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Dec. f11 Music video is still waiting for the commercial integration of hardware and software, but we can expect to see more simultaneous releases on vinyl and video in 1982. 1989 HMV Christmas Mag. 21 There's a whole range of films and music videos available now for as little as £4.99. 1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. i. i. 11 One of the most heavily hyped entertainment ‘vents’ in history: the world premiere of the music video ‘Black or White’, from Michael Jackson's album Dangerous. 1999 Scotsman 27 Mar. (i Mag.) 25/4 Music-video director Scott will bring an arresting quality to the visuals. music wire n. steel wire such as is used in some stringed musical instruments. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > wire > types of silver wire14.. white wire1463 virginal wire1662 pin-wire1674 binding wire1767 pinion wire1767 electric wire1819 music wire1823 gutta-percha-wire1876 No. eight1876 picture wire1876 number eight1952 microwire1953 plated wire1960 nanowire1990 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > parts generally > string > types of wirea1387 false string1597 unison1603 unison string1633 drone1793 music wire1823 silver string1876 sympathetic strings1888 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 150 With small musick-wire, cut your making into cakes. 1900 Science 6 July 39/2 The highest point was reached with 4½ miles of music wire as a flying line. 1988 Guns & Weapons Winter 46/1 The return spring is unbreakable coiled music wire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). musicv. Brit. /ˈmjuːzɪk/, U.S. /ˈmjuzɪk/ Inflections: Present participle musicking, (rare) music-ing, (rare) musicing; past tense and past participle musicked, (rare) music-ed, (rare) musiced; Forms: 1600s musick, 1700s musik, 1700s– music. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: music n. Etymology: < music n. Compare post-classical Latin musicare to set to music (4th cent.: see musicate v.), Middle French, French musiquer (late 14th cent. in sense ‘to perform music’, a1572 in sense ‘to set to music‘). 1. intransitive. To perform or compose music; to entertain oneself with music. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] dreamOE to make melodyc1330 to make minstrelsyc1330 note1340 practise?a1425 gest1508 melody1596 music1649 melodize1662 perform1724 spiel1870 1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 121 I too can Musick above dead sounds of Man. 1788 E. Jerningham in Jerningham Lett. (1896) I. 46 I suppose you have been reading, drawing, and musiking. 1846 Littell's Living Age 7 Nov. 425/1 They..superintended their domestic affairs..read a little and musicked a little. 1876 T. S. Egan tr. H. Heine Atta Troll 221 The young one musicked and trilled [Ger. getrillert und musiciret]. 1900 W. A. Ellis Life Wagner I. 198 We met, ate, and even music-ed together once in Leipzig. 1999 V. Seth Equal Music (2000) viii. 441 How late must he [sc. the blackbird] be musicking this year? †2. transitive. To bring or convey by means of music; (also) to train in music. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1708 W. Darrell Suppl. to 1st Pt. Gentleman Instructed vi. 74 A Man must have a mean Valuation of Christ to leave him for a Touch upon an Instrument, and a faint Idea of future Torments to be fiddled and musickt into Hell. 1861 J. Pycroft Agony Point (1862) xii. 142 The girls..have not only been Frenched, and Musicked, and Deportmented,..but they have also had [etc.]. 3. transitive. To set to music; to represent through music, express in musical terms. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > compose [verb (transitive)] > set to music set1502 air1608 musicate1614 compose1685 melodize1881 music1897 musicalize1919 1897 National Observer 27 Feb. 414 The authors,..after having ‘musicked’ mysticism in Le Rêve..treat now in Messidor the labour question. 1935 Life & Lett. Sept. 72 Brecht should provide new lyrics to be musicked by Weill. 1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. ix. 86 The whole is musicked into tuneful rhyme, arresting conceit, and stirring meter. 1994 Observer Rev. 23 Jan. 4/4 Musicked by Purcell, it held the stage for a century. Derivatives ˈmusicked adj. rare ΚΠ 1898 R. W. Gilder In Palestine 41 He hears from hidden birds The low, melodious pour of musicked words. 1955 W. Faulkner Fable (U.K. ed.) 96 That morose and musical people..whose own misty and music-ed names no other man could pronounce even. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1325v.1649
随便看	proximocephalic proximodistal proximodistally proximous proxxer proxxest proxy proxy fight proxy form proxy help proxy marriage proxy prayer proxy server proxy sitting proxy vote proxy war proxy-man proxy-wedded proxyhood proxying proxyman proxyship proxywedded prozac prozine

musicn.adj.

Compounds

musicv.

Derivatives