| 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 |
| film festival | a cinematic festival that features films (usually films produced during the past year) |
moviemaking
movie making
film making | the production of movies |
film editing
cutting | the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film |
electronic instrument
electronic musical instrument | a musical instrument that generates sounds electronically |
| film | a thin coating or layer, the table was covered with a film of dust |
| film photographic film | photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion, used to make negatives or transparencies |
| film plastic film | a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things |
| film advance | a mechanism for advancing film in a camera or projector |
motion-picture film
movie film
cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
movie projector
cine projector
film projector | projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures |
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 |
| orthochromatic film | a photographic film sensitive to green and blue and violet light |
| panchromatic film | photographic film sensitive to light of all colors (including red) |
| roll film | photographic film wound on a spool |
cling film
clingfilm
Saran Wrap | a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself, used for wrapping food |
| soap film | a film left on objects after they have been washed in soap |
| sound film | motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it |
| Xay film | photographic film used to make Xay pictures |
| musical perception | the auditory perception of musical sounds |
film
cinema
celluloid | a medium that disseminates moving pictures, theater pieces transferred to celluloid, this story would be good cinema, film coverage of sporting events |
a movie
film picture moving picture
moving-picture show
motion picture
motion-picture show
picture show
pic
flick | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement, they went to a movie every Saturday night, the film was shot on location |
feature
feature film | the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater, the feature tonight is `Casablanca' |
| collage film | a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage |
documentary
docudrama
documentary film
infotainment | a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event |
| film noir | a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters, film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the s |
pilot program
pilot film
pilot | a program exemplifying a contemplated series, intended to attract sponsors |
| film clip | a strip of motion picture film used in a telecast |
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 |
musical arrangement
arrangement | a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments |
| passage musical passage | a short section of a musical composition |
| phrase musical phrase | a short musical passage |