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Antiphony :: Antiphony (n.) A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing..

Vibration :: Vibration (n.) A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever..

Canorousness :: Canorousness (n.) The quality of being musical.

Music :: Music (n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.

Rhythmometer :: Rhythmometer (n.) An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.

Instrumentation :: Instrumentation (n.) The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.

Crowth :: Crowth (n.) An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.

Hylodes :: Hylodes (n.) The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes..

Septette :: Septette (n.) A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also septuor.

Flourish :: Flourish (n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare..

Purfling :: Purfling (n.) Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin..

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..

Canorous :: Canorous (a.) Melodious; musical.

Tuneless :: Tuneless (a.) Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical.

Resonance :: Resonance (n.) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments..

Copyright :: Copyright (n.) The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books..

Xylophone :: Xylophone (n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle..

Music :: Music (n.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.

Viol :: Viol (n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings..

Intonate :: Intonate (v. i.) To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.

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