(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.
Requiem
Definition:
(n.) A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.
(n.) Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person.
(n.) Rest; quiet; peace.
Example Sentences:
(1) The orchestra was also not allowed to perform Mozart’s Requiem last month.
(2) Referring to Foster and O’Neill shaking hands in the church at a requiem mass for McGuinness, Dodds said: “That handshake represented a reaching out but that inclusivity was not then carried into the talks.” The last public political act by McGuinness was to resign as deputy first minister of Northern Ireland in January.
(3) While any of the bands who filled Bastille-shaped holes in charts gone by – Keane, for instance – followed a tune-heavy path of least resistance, there's an enjoyably dark edge to Bastille, which begins to make sense when Smith admits that as a teen he was obsessed with Darren Aronofosky's film Requiem for a Dream.
(4) To all intents, it was a requiem for both men’s illustrious prizefighting.
(5) Church also said Murdoch asked her to sing the Pie Jesu without realising it was part of the requiem mass and hardly appropriate for a wedding.
(6) Trouble was,” said Ali, as if they could hear him, “nobody was holdin’ me.” From the Vault: Requiem for the heavyweights | Guardian Classic Read more Who can hold him now?
(7) It should be obvious that a steak is not like a symphony, a pie not like a passaglia, foie gras not like a fugue; that the "composition" of a menu is not like the composition of a requiem; that the cook heating things in the kitchen and arranging them on a plate is not the artistic equal of Charlie Parker.
(8) Demonstrators, who had bought tickets, broke out in song during the orchestra’s performance of Johannes Brahms’ Requiem and unfurled banners in support of Brown.
(9) Kubrick famously didn't ask composer György Ligeti's permission to use extended chunks of his music, which he cut and spliced as if it were film, but the dense clusters and clouds of sound of Ligeti's Requiem and Atmosphères make the climactic Jupiter and Beyond sequence trippily unforgettable.
(10) MacMillan subsisted on an insalubrious diet of alcohol, cigarettes, antidepressants and psychoanalysis – and yet still produced definitive works, including Manon, Elite Syncopations (a rare comedy) and Requiem.
(11) Alongside the requiem, performed on Wednesday by a string ensemble, Church performed This Bitter Earth, which was made famous in the 1960s by the singer Dinah Washington.
(12) Key films: The space between words (BBC); Decision series (ITV); Police series (BBC), In Search of Law and Order UK & USA series (Channel 4); September mourning (ITV), Murder blues (BBC), Requiem for Detroit?
(13) But this is no requiem for the death of the genre's innocence.
(14) There was sometimes a feeling in his later performances and recordings that the old, familiar sense of challenge had gone gentle; his Mahler Eighth Symphony in Berlin, for example, proved a surprisingly soft-grained conclusion to a Mahler cycle on disc that had begun with a far greater sense of dynamism (it was the only Mahler symphony he would later fail to conduct in Lucerne, where an advertised performance was pulled and replaced by the Mozart Requiem).
(15) "He had specifically asked for me to sing Pie Jesu," Church said, adding that she had responded by questioning whether a funeral requiem was suitable for a wedding.
(16) Different musical ensembles – from brass bands to bagpipes – have been playing the four-part movement Requiem for Arctic Ice , as activists hand Shell employees on their way to work a copy of the music and a contact email address should they decide to blow the whistle.
(17) And there's as much magic in one bar of, say, Knussen's Violin Concerto, or any of the songs from his nakedly expressive Requiem: Songs for Sue, or in the glittering piano writing of Ophelia's Last Dance, as there is in the rest of the Mercury shortlist put together.
(18) But, coming days before Trump’s inauguration, it should be read also as an unwitting requiem for the global order that is passing away.
(19) We have mapped the cleavage sites of four restriction enzymes which recognize six-base sequences within the nuclear ribosomal (rRNA) genes of twelve vertebrates, including several placental mammals (Homo sapiens, man; Bos taurus, cow; Equus caballus, horse; Sus scofra, pig; Ovis aries, sheep; Rattus rattus, rat), a marsupial (Didelphis marsupialis, opossum), a bird (Gallus domesticus, chicken), an amphibian (Xenopus laevis), a reptile (Alligator mississipiensis), a bony fish (Cynoscion nebulosus, sea trout), and a cartilagenous fish (Carcharhinus species, requiem shark).
(20) A second Britten score, Sinfonia da Requiem (1940) leads Christopher Wheeldon into the darker terrain of war and sacrifice in his densely imagined ballet Aeternum (revived this season after its 2013 premiere).