musical

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At this point, it's a game of playing musical chairs that a lot of us simply can't win.

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Quick take

a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of musical gathered in one view.

noun

a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing

adjective

characterized by or capable of producing music; "a musical evening"; "musical instruments"

adjective

talented in or devoted to music; "comes from a very musical family"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for musical.

noun

a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing

adjective

characterized by or capable of producing music; "a musical evening"; "musical instruments"

adjective

talented in or devoted to music; "comes from a very musical family"

adjective

characteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music; "a musical speaking voice"; "a musical comedy"

adjective

containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark"

Example sentences

At this point, it's a game of playing musical chairs that a lot of us simply can't win.

First, musical talent is only part of the equation when it comes to selling music.

There is demand to hire expensive publicists to befriend the journalists that switch from site to site like musical chairs.

What on earth does 'musical sounding speakers' even mean?> It's very easy to measure frequency response.

In inns and suchlike places it may be of real use, as much use say as a penny in-the-slot musical instrument, but it's nothing more than that.

The global musical monoculture is ending and a diverse, global party is replacing it.

'Phase' doesn't come even close to being a catch all cause.> To my ears, the best and most musical sounding speakersAnd thus we've devolved from science, as this usually goes.

While recorded music has brought first-rate professional performances to the masses, it has robbed untold millions of musical expression.

Instead he did mind-numbing factory work and stimulated himself with books, musical instruments, languages, and people whenever he had energy after work.

Anyone who has every learned a musical instrument and doesn't look back on it with rose-colored glasses can attest to the mechanistic heartlessness of the piano or the guitar.

Now, that's not to say that these considerations are audible to most listeners -- one of serialism's greatest failings, in my opinion, is that much of its content is only discoverable on paper even by highly trained musicians -- but it's certainly audible to some, and it's worth noting that this runs counter to her assertion that musical lines don't have meaning until they're embedded in a harmonic context: it's not even true with serialism as practiced!

In his dream he finds himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory....Since musicians are known to set down their ideas in the form of sheet music, these curious black dots and lines must constitute the “language of music.” It is imperative that students become fluent in this language if they are to attain any degree of musical competence; indeed, it would be ludicrous to expect a child to sing a song or play an instrument without having a thorough grounding in music notation and theory.