(n.) The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.
(n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
(n.) Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.
(n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
(n.) Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.
(n.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(2) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
(3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(4) Subjects' musical backgrounds were evaluated with a survey questionnaire.
(5) On raw music scores a sex-linked, time-of-day-induced priming effect was due to the prior presentation of CVs--that is, cognitive priming.
(6) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(7) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(8) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
(9) Amplitude of the musical vibrations decreased by inhalation of amyl nitrite, but increased by infusion of methoxamine.
(10) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
(11) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
(12) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
(13) The musical would begin previews in Chicago on December 21, and move to Broadway in February.
(14) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
(15) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(16) In film, music videos and TV shows, especially those traditionally consumed by a young demographic, we are used to seeing women stripping and frolicking with one another.
(17) If we’ve a duty to pass folk music on, we should also bring it up to date and make it relevant to our times,” he says.
(18) Changes to the Mac Pro desktop computer are also expected, as is a new music streaming service .
(19) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
(20) Was that misreading the mood music of the referendum?” He claimed that many Tories had expressed their anger directly to Rudd about the controversial policy, which has since been watered down.
Polka
Definition:
(n.) A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is performed by two persons in common time.
(n.) A lively Bohemian or Polish dance tune in 2-4 measure, with the third quaver accented.
Example Sentences:
(1) The latter is an intriguing vision , a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
(2) Vitaly continues to bring his collection of Soviet cameras, photographs and other paraphernalia to an outdoor flea market, where the afternoon sun gleamed off a Lenin bust that he had repainted to look like a "'90s gangster" with a moustache and a polka-dot tie.
(3) There is a flashy new restaurant block, high-rise apartments, and department stores where you can buy Dior cosmetics, Siemens washing machines and blue and yellow polka-dot swimsuits.
(4) The very small spines (also glochids) of the polka dot or bunny's ear cactus (Opuntia microdasys) and the beavertail cactus (Opuntia basilaris) offer the most frustrating problem of all, but can be peeled off with a dried film of a professional facial gel.
(5) With the Slovak Peter Sagan having secured his second successive green jersey and Colombia's Nairo Quintana guaranteed those in polka dot and white before the beginning of Sunday's stage, those in the peloton eschewed early aggression in favour of a leisurely meander towards the Champs-Elysées.
(6) The man the NME once referred to as the coolest in London sits in the Soho offices of a film distribution company, wearing a blue polka-dot shirt and an expression of absolute mortification.
(7) Instead of echoing Diana's look - a pink floral dress with matching hat - as she did with blue polka dots post-birth, this gives a clue to what we'll see in the future.
(8) In London five nights beforehand, the quartet wore casual wear to perform; here, they are dressed in formal black – and I should damned well hope so, because Christy has changed into a polka-dot party frock and swapped her blue hairband for a lacy black ribbon tied in a big bow.
(9) His outfit could almost be a store-bought costume: the bright red braces, the wide polka-dot tie, even the carefully folded red handkerchief protruding from the left breast pocket of his suit.
(10) Spirited polka music was pumped out from the Village Bakery on to a sidewalk still littered with broken glass from shattered windows.
(11) Curiously, her final novel, The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress , would have been eligible this year but for an inexplicable rule that the award can't be posthumously awarded).
(12) The compound causing the blue–green glow of the polka-dot tree frog was not previously thought to exist in vertebrates and its discovery has excited researchers.
(13) She came for supper with Valerie Eliot , and the widow of the poet was wearing – he remembers it vividly – a polka-dot dress.
(14) A pub iin Knaresborough, decorated with King of the Mountains polka dots.
(15) Once the preserve of a few pioneering organisations – in particular the Polka and the Unicorn children’s theatres in London – relaxed performances are percolating through British theatre, from panto season to major subsidised theatres, such as the National and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), all the way to the West End.
(16) What made him think that the trench needed a polka dot bow tie to finish off the look?
(17) The equations presented admit solutions describing the "polka-dot" patterns seen at low organism concentration in suspensions slightly deeper than the critical value.
(18) The Colombian snaps up the double points on offer at the finish to secure the polka-dot jersey as king of the mountains.
(19) Narcocorrido takes its form from the polkas and waltzes of northern Mexico, and its lyrics blend a documentary eye for detail with a mythologising flair for an outrageously tall tale.
(20) The latter is classified as blend, laminate, swiss-roll, polka-dot, and froth in type.