English noun: music |
| 1. | music (communication) an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |
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| Broader (hypernym) | auditory communication |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | air, antiphony, Bach, ballet, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, chorus, composition, concerted music, dance music, genre, Gilbert and Sullivan, Handel, harmony, Haydn, instrumental music, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, monody, monophonic music, monophony, Mozart, music genre, musical composition, musical genre, musical harmony, musical style, opus, overture, part music, piece, piece of music, pizzicato, polyphonic music, polyphony, polytonalism, polytonality, popularism, prelude, refrain, section, serial music, serialism, strain, Stravinsky, subdivision, syncopation, Ta'ziyeh, tune, vocal, vocal music, Wagner |
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| Domain category members | accelerando, adagio, adagio, allegretto, allegro, alto, andante, arioso, arrange, atonal, atonalistic, audio CD, audio compact disc, barrel organ, beat, beats per minute, bowed, bpm, brass family, C, C major, C major scale, cantabile, chord, chromatic, compose, con brio, con brio, conjunct, contrapuntal, copyrighted, counterpoint, crescendo, decrescendo, dedication, development, diatonic, diminished, diminuendo, disconnected, disjunct, dissonant, dolce, dominant, dramatic, drop, electric organ, electronic organ, entr'acte, executant, exposition, expressive style, fanfare, fast, feminine, fermata, fiddle, first, flat, flatten, flourish, forte, fortissimo, fretted, fugally, gamut, glissando, grind organ, Hammond organ, hand organ, harmonise, harmonize, hurdy gurdy, hurdy-gurdy, idea, inscription, interlude, intermezzo, invert, keynote, larghetto, largo, largo, leading tone, legato, ligature, lyric, lyric, M.M., major, masculine, measured, mediant, melodic theme, melodise, melodize, mensurable, mensural, metronome marking, minor, molto, monophonic, music, music, musical notation, musical scale, musical theme, musical time, musician, natural, note value, organ, pacing, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, play, play, plucked, polyphonic, polyphonic, polyphonous, pop, popular, preparation, prepare, prestissimo, presto, put, pyrotechnics, quality, rag, rallentando, realise, realize, recapitulation, recapitulation, register, registration, release, resolution, roulade, scale, scale of C major, score, second, section, segno, serial, set, set to music, sforzando, sharp, sharpen, sheet music, sightreader, singing, slide, slow, slur, smooth, solmizate, solo, sound off, soundboard, sounding board, staccato, staff, statement, stave, stop, street organ, strike up, string, style, subdivision, subdominant, submediant, subtonic, suite, supertonic, swing, swoop, syncopation, synthesiser, synthesizer, tempo, tenor, theme, tie, timber, timbre, time value, tonal, tone, tone ending, tonic, transpose, transposition, tremolo, tucket, tuning, unfretted, unison, unkeyed, unresolved, value, vibrato, violin family, woodwind family, world premiere, write |
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| 2. | music (cognition) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds |
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| Samples | He fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes.
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| Synonyms | euphony |
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| Broader (hypernym) | auditory sensation, sound |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | music of the spheres |
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| Domain category members | harmonise, harmonize, instrument, instrumentate, orchestrate, reharmonise, reharmonize, transcribe |
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| 3. | music (act) musical activity (singing or whistling etc.) |
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| Samples | His music was his central interest.
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| Broader (hypernym) | activity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bell ringing, carillon, carillon playing, instrumental music, intonation, percussion, vocal music, whistling |
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| Part holonym | beats per minute, bpm, M.M., metronome marking |
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| Domain category | music, singing, vocalizing |
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| Domain category members | accompany, bang out, bow, bugle, carol, chirp, choir, chorus, churn out, clarion, concertise, concertize, conduct, conduct, direct, double tongue, drum, fiddle, follow, harmonise, harmonize, harp, hymn, interlude, jazz, lead, madrigal, minstrel, modulate, pedal, pipe, play, play along, prelude, psalm, rag, rap, recapitulate, register, repeat, reprise, reprize, scamp, sight-read, sightread, sing, sing, skirl, slur, solmizate, sound off, strike up, symphonise, symphonize, tongue, triple-tongue, troll, trumpet, tweedle, tweedle |
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| 4. | music (cognition) (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds) |
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| Broader (hypernym) | auditory sensation, sound |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | piano music |
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| Domain category | music |
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| Domain category members | chord, clarion, double tongue, harmonise, harmonise, harmonize, harmonize, key, sound off, strike up, syncopate, tongue, triple-tongue |
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| 5. | music (act) punishment for one's actions |
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| Samples | You have to face the music.
Take your medicine.
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| Synonyms | medicine |
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| Broader (hypernym) | penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment |
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