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Manuscript :: Manuscript (a.) A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy..

Musical :: Musical (n.) A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party.

Suiting :: Suite (n.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form..

Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..

Rigoll :: Rigoll (n.) A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end..

Sing :: Sing (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.

Miserere :: Miserere (n.) A musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm.

Scabrous :: Scabrous (a.) Fig.: Harsh; unmusical.

Chime :: Chime (n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions..

Melodious :: Melodious (a.) Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice..

Odeon :: Odeon (n.) A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances..

Stop :: Stop (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated..

Instrumentation :: Instrumentation (n.) The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance; as, his instrumentation is perfect..

Touch :: Touch (v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes..

Perform :: Perform (v. i.) To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ..

Stridulation :: Stridulation (n.) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts..

Gittith :: Gittith (n.) A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv..

Bagpipe :: Bagpipe (n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland..

Harp :: Harp (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers..

Attune :: Attune (v. t.) To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp..

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