music housen.
/ˈmjuːzɪkhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈmjuzɪkˌ(h)aʊs/ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > other parts of theatre > [noun] > place for musicians
music house1602
music rooma1627
orchestra1724
music box1756
orchestra pit1886
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. v. sig. Kv, (stage direct.) While the measure is dauncing, Andrugios ghost is placed betwixt the musick houses.
1605 in P. Cunningham Revels at Court (1842) 207 The musike house att ye Court.
1612 in P. Cunningham Revels at Court (1842) 214 A Musik house dore in the hall & a doore for the Musik house in the Bancketing house.
2. A place where a musical performance takes place; (usually) spec. a building set aside for this purpose. Now chiefly historical.
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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
a1641 A. Munday et al. Bk. Sir Thomas More (1911) 43 We grapled to the Bardge that bare the King. But after many pleasing voyces spent, in that still moouing musique house..the violence of the streame did seuer vs..from the..fleet.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 361 John Thacker..had formerly learnt to dance in the Musick-houses about Wapping.
1724 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 3) i. 468 The Musick-houses at Amsterdam,..than which nothing can be more harmless.
1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 76 It is also customary for strangers to see something of their famous spiel houses, or music houses in this city.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 213 Nae frequenter of play-house, or music-house, or dancing-house.
1869 Harper's Mag. Jan. 256/1 Of course I went again to the music-house.
1882 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 161 One stately house shall be the music house.
1925 Times 9 Oct. 17/6 Mr. Sadler..then built a music-house, of which it was reported ‘there are five or six hundred people there constantly every morning’.
1989 S. Mills & P. Riemer Mills of Gloucestershire ii. 78 (caption) In the 1930s Lord Aberconway bought the Mill's Music House, dismantled and reconstructed it at Bodnant in North Wales.
2000 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 29 Jan. The princely residence, the Music House and the theatre, the terraces and temples were taken over by a collective farm.
3. A publishing house specializing in sheet music or scores; a company which sells sheet or recorded music or musical instruments.
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society > communication > printing > publishing > publisher > [noun] > publisher of specific material
anecdotographer1686
anecdotariana1734
tractarian1824
Minerva press1843
music house1854
1854 R. Edwards Statist. Gazetteer State of Virginia 434 (advt.) Manager of the publishing department of the great Music House of Jullien & Chappells, London.
1902 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 3 189 (note) An agent for some music house did a thriving business..selling cheap organs.
1950 Amer. Lit. 21 439 A translator of German lyrics for music houses.
2000 Nation (Thailand) (Electronic ed.) 26 June The country's largest music house is also facing more intense competition in the industry following the recovery of its main rivals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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