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music

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1. music - Noun

2. music - Verb

3. Music - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.

Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.

The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.

Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.

A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. Ludwig van Beethoven

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. Pythagoras

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. Louis Armstrong

Those who can't dance blame it on the music. Jamaican Proverb

When the music changes, so does the dance. West African Proverb

Hope is grief's best music. English Proverb

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