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A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
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A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.
adjective
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Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
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musical proportion; musical instruments
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Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
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She had a musical voice.
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Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
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the child is musical; having a musical ear
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Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
Examples of musical in a Sentence
So, Elisabeth gets her musical talent from you.
Some bells are musical and others are unmusical.
If nothing else, all this upheaval had given him back his musical voice.
From 1871 he was musical critic for La Liberte.
The natural basis for a standard musical pitch is the voice, particularly the male voice, which has been of greater importance historically.
Some of her notes are musical and charming.
Finally it must be remembered that musical euphony and emotional effect are inseparable from considerations of harmony and polyphony.
The word, which was probably derived from some Greek bandmaster, was presumably an instruction for a musical interlude.
If possible, they are as a race lazier than the western Lao, as they are certainly more musical.
Theatrical and musical entertainments are popular among them.
In the number and variety of its leather and other fancy goods Vienna rivals Paris, and is also renowned for its manufacture of jewelry and articles of precious metals, objets d'art, musical instruments, physical chemicals and optical instruments, and artistic products generally.
As an art-form the musical Mass is governed to a peculiar degree by the structure of its text.
The next definite stage in the musical history of the Mass was attained by the Neapolitan composers who were first to reach musical coherence after the monodic revolution at the beginning of the 17th century.
Skill in modern laboratory work is as far out of the reach of the untaught as performance on a musical instrument.
Among the musical compositions of Allegri were two volumes of concerti, published in 1618 and 1619; two volumes of motets, published in 1620 and 1621; besides a number of works still in manuscript.
He was for some time tutor of his college; but the most characteristic reminiscence of his university life is the mention made by Anthony Wood that in the musical gatherings of the time "Thomas Ken of New College, a junior, would be sometimes among them, and sing his part."
The gaiety of Vienna had for centuries depended on the brilliancy of its court, recruited from all parts of Europe, including the nobility of the whole empire, and on its musical, light-hearted and contented population.
Sometimes, especially at early dawn, there is a musical noise in the desert, like the sound of distant drums, which is caused by the eddying of grains of sand in the heated atmosphere, on the crests of the medanos.
The educational and scientific institutions of Mainz include an episcopal seminary, two gymnasia and other schools, a society for literature and art, a musical society, and an antiquarian society.
The principal manufactures are leather goods, furniture, carriages, chemicals, musical instruments and carpets, for the first two of which the city has attained a wide reputation.
His voice is musical, metallic, fit for loud laughter and piercing wail, and all that may lie between; speech and speculation free and plenteous; I do not meet in these late decades such company over a pipe."
Next must be mentioned the Kunstgewerbe (museum of arts and crafts) and the Musical Museum, with valuable MSS.
There are numerous high-grade schools, musical and other learned societies and excellent hospitals.
This difference is probably explained by the fact that the idea of thus modifying the Kagura had its origin in musical recitations from the semi-romantic semi-historical narratives of the 14th century.
Very soon the No came to occupy in the estimation of the military class a position similar to that held by the lanka as a literary pursuit, and the gagaku as a musical, in the Imperial court.
Beet sugar is also largely manufactured, and the inhabitants of the Black Forest have long been celebrated for their dexterity in the manufacture of wooden ornaments and toys, musical boxes and organs.
In the year after the war (240), when the armies had returned and the people were at leisure to enjoy the fruits of victory, Livius Andronicus substituted at one of the public festivals a regular drama, translated or adapted from the Greek, for the musical medleys (saturae) hitherto in use.
The famous inscriptions with hymns to Apollo accompanied by musical notation were found on stones belonging to this treasury.
Thus pitch is a soft and yielding body under steady stress, but a bar of pitch if struck gives a musical note, which shows that it vibrates and is therefore stiff or elastic for high frequency stress.
Zeitz has manufactures of cloth, cottons and other textiles, machinery, wax-cloth, musical instruments, vinegar, cigars, &c.; and wood-carving, dyeing and calico-printing are carried on.
The term is specially applied to the musical setting of the mass.
But the quaint beauty of Herbert's style and its musical quality give The Temple a high place.
Under the patronage of Charles Alexander, also, Weimar became a famous musical centre, principally owing to the presence of Franz Liszt, who from 1848 to 1886 made Weimar his principal place of residence.
According to one account, he travelled as far as Bremen, called there by Archbishop Hermann in order to reform the musical service.
Bach, from which he gained his earliest acquaintance with the principles of musical structure.
With the encouragement of a discriminating patron, a small but excellent orchestra and a free hand, Haydn made the most of his opportunity and produced a continuous stream of compositions in every known musical form.
Haydn's place in musical history is best determined by his instrumental compositions.
Bach's sonatas; then the medium itself began to suggest wider horizons and new possibilities of treatment; his position at Eisenstadt enabled him to experiment without reserve; his genius, essentially symphonic in character, found its true outlet in the opportunities of pure musical structure.
The importance of this lies not only in a greater richness of musical colour, but in the effect which it produced on the actual substance and texture of composition.
Experiments, which will be described most conveniently when we discuss methods of determining the frequencies of sources, prove conclusively that for a given note the frequency is the same whatever the source of that note, and that the ratio of the frequencies of two notes forming a given musical interval is the same in whatever part of the musical range the two notes are situated.
They found that the velocity of propagation of different musical sounds was the same.
In some cases of echo, when the original sound is a compound musical note, the octave of the fundamental tone is reflected much more strongly than that tone itself.
When we are walking past a fence formed by equally-spaced vertical rails or overlapping boards, we may often note that each footstep is followed by a musical ring.
Sounds may be divided into noises and musical notes.
A musical note always arises from a source which has some regularity of vibration, and which sends equally-spaced waves into the air.
The results obtained fully confirm the general law that " pitch," or the position of the note in the musical scale, depends solely on its frequency.
It is not necessary here to deal generally with the various musical scales.
All experiments in frequency show that two notes, forming a definite musical interval, have their frequencies always in the same ratio wherever in the musical scale the two notes are situated.
A determinate musical pitch is not perceived, he says, till about 40 vibrations per second.
Such bars are used in musical boxes and as free reeds in organ pipes.