| musical performance | the act of performing music |
| musical chairs | a rearrangement that has no practical effect or significance, the company is looking for stability after years of musical chairs with directors, shareholders don't want the company playing musical chairs with their investment |
musical chairs
going to Jerusalem | a child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players, when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated, then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated |
| sound ranging | locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions |
| sound reproduction | the reproduction of sound |
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tapestry moth
Trichophaga tapetzella | larvae feed on carpets and other woolens |
audio system
sound system | a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound |
electronic instrument
electronic musical instrument | a musical instrument that generates sounds electronically |
hi-fi
high fidelity sound system | equipment for the reproduction of sound with high fidelity |
musical instrument
instrument | any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds |
music box
musical box | produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate |
| sound bow | contact (the part of a bell) against which the clapper strikes |
| sound camera | a movie camera that records sounds in synchrony with the visual images |
| sound film | motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it |
| sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |
sound recording
audio recording
audio | a recording of acoustic signals |
| sound spectrograph | a spectrograph for acoustic spectra |
| sound truck | a truck equipped with a loudspeaker and used for advertising |
tapestry
arras | a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs |
| tapestry tapis | a heavy textile with a woven design, used for curtains and upholstery |
| tapestry | something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs, the tapestry of European history |
judgment
judgement
sound judgment
sound judgement
perspicacity | the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions |
| sound | the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause, the sound of rain on the roof, the beautiful sound of music |
| sound property | an attribute of sound |
echo
reverberation
sound reflection
replication | the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves, she could hear echoes of her own footsteps |
acoustic power
sound pressure level | the physical intensity of sound |
auditory perception
sound perception | the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon |
| musical perception | the auditory perception of musical sounds |
sound
auditory sensation | the subjective sensation of hearing something, he strained to hear the faint sounds |
| sound effect | an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play |
morphology sound structure
syllable structure
word structure | the admissible arrangement of sounds in words |
| sound law | a law describing sound changes in the history of a language |
audio
sound | the audible part of a transmitted signal, they always raise the audio for commercials |
phonetic alphabet
sound alphabet | an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech |
musical instrument digital interface
MIDI | a standard protocol for communication between electronic musical instruments and computers |
Doctor of Musical Arts
AMusD | a doctor's degree in musical arts |
| musical notation | (music) notation used by musicians |
score
musical score | a written form of a musical composition, parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages, he studied the score of the sonata |
scale
musical scale | (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) |
interval
musical interval | the difference in pitch between two notes |
octave
musical octave | a musical interval of eight tones |
mode
musical mode | any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave |
time signature
musical time signature | a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat |
note musical note
tone | a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound, the singer held the note too long |
musical
musical comedy
musical theater | a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing |
| musical drama | opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important, the music is appropriate to the action |
| harmony musical harmony | the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords |
theme melodic theme
musical theme
idea | (music) melodic subject of a musical composition, the theme is announced in the first measures, the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it |
accompaniment
musical accompaniment
backup
support | a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts |
musical composition
opus
composition piece piece of music | a musical work that has been created, the composition is written in four movements |