music 
rfiwM> - Florid Greeorian tanizary music. See 
tnu^'fyi"ra s G ~las^music,^nm e in which 
some article is hidden, to bel sought for by one of the com- 
pany who is partly guided by the music of some instrn- 
mont which is played fast as he approaches the place of 
concealment and more slowly as he wanders fi 
A pleasant game, she thought ; she liked it more 
Than magic music, forfeits, all the rest - 
phrasenrstusedbyRichardWagnertoexpressanelaborate 
combination of poetic, musical, dramatic, and scenic art 
3908 
We shut our hearts up nowadays, 
|,ike 5; ,,ne old .** that plays 
Unfashionable airs. 
Austin Dobmn, A C.age d Amour, 
2. A barrel-organ. 
Aminadab that grinds the mmlc-box. 
Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, i. 1. 
music-cabinet (mu'zik-kab'i-net), n. An orna- 
mental stand or rack for holding music-books 
and sheet-music. 
music-case (mu'zik-kas), n. 1. A set of shelves, 
compartments, or drawers tor holding music, 
whether bound or in sheet form. 2. A roll, fo- 
". f r &* ' "Specially ^ 
Music of the spheres. t harmony of the spres, music. Also called music-roll music-folio, etc. 
under harmony. Music trade-mark. See trade-mark. 3. A printers' case or tray fitted with parti- 
Organic music. See organw.- Program music ,mu- tions for mus i c 4yp e s. 
men?h n n d d e wimouuh y e eo? word^e'scripTiol S music-chair (mu'zik-char), , Same as MW.O 
gestion of definite objects, scenes, or events. The term is stool. 
oftenvei-y vaguely used.-To face the music. See/ocei. music-clamp (mu'zik-klamp), w. A clip or nle 
- Turkish music. Same as January mime. for holding sheet-music. 
musict (mu'zik), r. *. [< music, n.] To entice music-club (mu'zik-klub), . An association 
or seduce with music. for the practice of music. 
A man must put a mean valuation upon Christ to leave There were also music-dubs, orprivate meetings for the 
him for a touch upon an instrument, and a faint idea of practice of music, which were exceedingly fashionable 
future torments to be fiddled and muxick'd into hell. with people of opulence. 
Gentleman Instructed, p. 135. (Daviet.) Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 383. 
musica (mu'zi-ka), n. [L. and It.: see music.'] music-demy (mu'zik-de-mi"), n. An English 
Music __ Musica flcta, falsa, or colorata, false or size of printing-paper, 20J X 14f inches. 
feigned music : a term applied in the fourteenth, fifteenth, music-desk (mu'zik-desk), . A music-stand, 
and sixteenth centuries to music in which accidentals or T ap-tap-tap," went the leader's bow on the music- 
notes foreign to the scale of the mode were introduced for ^ f Dickem, Sketches, viii. 
the sake of euphony. ,,-,. */u//mii'ilr Wlis^ Mnmn no musuf 
musical (mu'zi-kal), . and !. [< F. Sp. Pg. mUSlC-fOllO (mu zik-lc 10), n. bame as 
musical = It. mnsicalc, < NL. *musicalis, < L. case, 2. 
munea music see music 1 I 1 Of or per- mUSlC-nall(mu'zik-hal), H. A public hall used 
iisio in an v sense- of the nature especially for musical performances or other 
taming to music, in any s m ,Wi P mtwrial ments sneoifieallv in En?- 
of music: as, musical proportion. 2. Sound- public entertainments, spec any, m rmg 
ing agreeably: affecting the ear pleasurably; land, such a hall in which the entertainment 
nits of sinin dancin recitations or im- 
musive 
His operas, although by no means written" with a pur- 
pose ' 'represented an ent.rely new type of <***>* 
Mtfettt. Quarterly Rev., GXIAI. 66. 
nmsicography (mu-zi-kog'ra-fi), w. [< Gr. //r- 
OTk-n, music, + 5/HMto, write.] The science or 
art ' o f wr i t ing music out in legible characters ; 
mugical notation 
mus i c omania (niiV'zi-ko-ma'ni-a), H. [= F. 
musicomanie = It. musicomania. "< NL. wi.v/r- 
,,-, < Gl , , lovatK j lj music, + pavia, mania.] 
In p<lflloL , a variety of m ouomania in which the 
intellectual faculties are deranged by an ab- 
for music. Dmuilison. Alsd 
conformable to the laws of the science of music ; 
conformable to the principles of the art of mu- 
sic; melodious; harmonious. 
ht A A nr 8 Tute" d ""' riCal 
Albright Apollo's lute. L L L , y 3 
consists of singing, dancing, recitations, or im 
itations in character burlesque, variety per- 
formances, and the like. 
S?S?S5~ 
While yet the thought of glorious Summer lives. 
i spree. 
F. Locker, The Music Palace. 
(mu'zik-hol'der), H. 1. A mu- 
e X rack, clip, or hook for holding 
music for a performer. 
WiMamMorra, Earthly Paradise, I. 375. mUSlC-hOUSe (mu ' zik-hous), . 1. A house 
where public musical entertainments are given, 
Towards the close of the seventeenth century, the pro- 
fessed musicians assembled at certain houses in the me- 
tropolis, called mtmc-Aowses, where they performed con- 
certs consisting of vocal and instrumental music, for the 
entertainment of the public. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 382. 
. fi n tlipv business pntippm dpalimr in 
* A mm 01 otbei Dusmes. ? g 
3 Pertaining to the performance or the nota- 
tionofmusic. 4. Fond of music ; diseriminat- 
ing with regard to music: as, the child is musical, 
r>7par i Arniifriiur- ridiculous 
ornasamttSMKMear. O. Amusing, 11 iUS. 
[Slang, New Eng.]_Muslcal box, a mechanical mu- 
sical instrument, consisting essentially of a barrel or cyl- 
inder, caused to revolve by clockwork, in the surface of 
which are small pegs or pins, so arranged as to catch and 
twang the teeth of a kind of steel comb. These te 
graduated in size, and carefully tuned ; and the , . . 
sitipn of the pins is such as to sound them in perfect musici a n (mu-zish'an), . [Early mod. E. also 
melodic succession and rhythm, so that even very elabo- SSST. V W mtaS/m- " ~ 
rate music may be faithfully reproduced. The position . 
of the barrel may usually be slightly shifted from side to 
side, so that more than one tune can be played from the 
same barrel ; and sometimes more than one barrel is pro- 
vided for the same box, so that an extensive repertoire is 
possible. Occasionally small bells, or even small reeds 
blown by a bellows, as in the hand-organ, are added to in- 
' 
. 
teeth are printed music, or musical instruments, or both. 
he dispo- musici (mu'zi-si), . pi. Same as Iiarmonici. 
. W mtaS/m- u i>"+ i, n ~\ One 
, < H . mimcien ., , as music T -law.j 
who makes music a profession or otherwise de- 
vo tes himself to it, whether as composer, per- 
fo,,^,. ,.;,, theorist or historian 
] Ier > cr 
The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung. 
Dryden, Alexander's Feast, 1. 47. 
crease the resources of the instrument. The effects pro- m ,,^ rial , pr rmfl 7 ish'an erl K musician + 
duced are often very pleasing and varied. -Musical DlUSlCianer (rau-zisn an-ei), H. ^musicia 
characters. See character. -Musical clock, a clock to -e'' 1 -] Same as OTc8rtn. [Obsolete or colloq.] 
which a musical box or barrel organ is so attached as to play 
tunes at certain periods -Musical condenser, a con- 
denser to the terminal plates of which the wires from a tele- 
phone-transmitter are attached. When a musical sound 
is produced in the neighborhood of the transmitter, it is 
reproduced by the condenser. Musical director, the i * - i_/ ,.\ r / _i_ 
conductor, dii-ector, or leader of a choir, chorus, band, or muSlCianly (mu-zish'an-ll), a. [< musician + 
orchestra. Also called music director. Musical drama. -?i/l.] Ha\-ing, exhibiting, or illustrating the 
properties of good music, or the skill and taste 
JJ fag mn^nn 
musicTansbip (mTzish'an-ship), n. [< ,,'- 
cian + -s/iip.] Skill in musical composition or 
expression ; musical acquirements. 
As a w hole, "St. Polycarp is a work which bears testi- 
mon y J th '?. tho thorough musicianship and to the nat- 
1 8 ' composer. Athenaam, No. 3178, p. 392. 
Musicianer I had always associated with the militia- 
rallst ers of my boyhood, and too hastily concluded it an 
abomination of our own, but Mr. Wright calls it a Nor- 
f Hj word, and I find it to be as old as 1642 by an ex- 
tract in Collier. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. 
. . 
Seeopera.-Musicalear. See earl, 5.-Musical glasses, 
See aloes -Musical harvest-flies, the Cicadwte.-Mu- 
- Musical scale. Seesotfc. 
II. n. A meeting or a party for a musical en- 
ii/w'/v7/> 
miisictlle. 
Such fashionable cant terms as theatricals and musicals, 
invented by the flippant Topham, still survive among his 
confraternity of frivolity. 
/. D Israeli, Curios, of Lit., III. 346. 
musicale(mu-zi-kal'),. [< F. mutsicale (soiree 
iiiuxicule, a musical party), fern, of musical, mu- 
sical : see musical.'] A performance or concert 
of music, vocal or instrumental, or both, usually music-loft (mu'zik-16ft), n. 
of a private character; a private concert. loft. 
musicality (mu-zi-kal'i-ti), . [< musical + music-mad(mu'zik-mad), a. Inordinately and 
-ity.] Same as musicalness. morbidly devoted to the studv or pursuit of 
musically (mu'zi-kal-i),ac7>. In a musical man- music; afflicted by musicomania. 
nerj in relation to music. music-master (mu'zik-mas"ter), n. 
musicalness (mu'zi-kal-nes), . The character 
of being musical. 
music-book (mu'zik-buk), M. A book contain- 
ingmusic. 
music-box (mu'zik-boks), . 1. Same as mu- 
steal box (which see, under musical). 
mUSicleSS (mu'zik-les), a. [< music + -less."] 
Unmusical ; inharmonious. 
Their muskklesse instruments are frames of brasse hung 
about with rings, which they jingle in shops according to 
thelr marchings. Sandys, Travailes, p. 172. (Dames.) 
Same as organ- 
A male 
teacher of music. 
music-mistress (mu'zik-mis"tres), n. A female 
teacher of music. 
musicodramatic (mu'zi-ko-dra-mat'ik), it. 
Combining music and the drama; at once dra- 
matic and musical. 
mus i c . pap er (mu'zik-pa'per), . Paper rule,! 
w jth staft'% for recording music. 
music-pen (mu'zik-pen), n. An instrument con- 
ggigS a wooden handle and a piece of brass 
go bent upon itself as to make five small chan- 
ne l s or gutters. When the channels are filled with 
ink and the pen is drawn across paper, five parallel lines 
are made, which constitute a staff for writing music. 
music-rack (mu'zik-rak), n. A rack or in- 
clined shelf attached to a musical instrument, 
or mounted upon ail independent support, de- 
signed to hold the music for a singer or player. 
^j gQ ca ]i e( j m u#ic-1lolder. 
music-recorder (rnu'zik-re-kor"der), n. A de- 
vice for recording music as it is played on any 
sort of keyed instrument, as the organ or piano- 
forte. Mr. Fenby's recorder, named by him a phmo- 
^p^ doe s this by means of a stud attached to the under 
side of each key. When the key is pressed down, the stud 
comes in contact with a spring, which in turn sets in action 
an electromagnetic apparatus, which causes a tracer to 
press against a fillet of chemically prepared paper moving 
at a uniform rate. The arrangement is such as to denote 
the length and character of the notes. AbbeMoigno'spho- 
nautograph records note8 by means of a pencil attached 
to a kind , spheroidal drum, which vibrates when any 
musical notes are sounded, whether by the mouth or by 
an 'ns t " t - , g . 
music-roU 
musicryt (mu'zik-ri), . [< music + -ry.] Music. 
Marston, Scourge of Villanie, xi. 131. 
music-school (mu'zik-skol), n. A school where 
music is the principal subject taught: when 
on a large scale, also called a conservatory. 
music-shell (mu'zik-shel), n. A volute, Yoluta 
mu.sica, inhabiting the Caribbean Sea, having 
the shell marked with color in a way that re- 
sembles bars of music, the spots being in 
several rows or series. See cut under volute. 
_...; _ m .- tl . /'mf.viV smitlil A workman 
musiC-smitn (n ai>, n. Aw 
who makes the metal parts ot pianofortes, etc. 
Simmonds, 
music-stand fmu'zik-stand) n 1 A music- 
n IK o 1, -flispd platform as 
F ack O1 music-case. ^. A ra >d platlorm, as 
m a . P a l k ' 5^2X4 a l^ nd playS i tt 
DlUSlC-stOOl (mu'zik-stol), n. A stool, often 
with an adinstable seat for a nerformeron the 
!?.SJteW 
Pianoforte 01 similar instrument. Also mtmc- 
Chair. 
music-tVDC (mu'zik-tip), H. Type for use in 
ntinw rniisio 
B . mus11 -.' .... , , . , 
USlC-Wire (mu'zik-wir), n. Steel wire such as 
i s use d in making the strings of musical instru- 
ments 
Musiznv Cmu-ze'nvi) w TF 1 An excellent 
"^f^ -J*. , Voted'Or i Bursundv 
rea_wme ol nay. 
mUSlDlOll, niUSinon (niu si-mon, mus mou), . 
f = F. musimonc, musmon . = It. musimone, < L. 
;,,,./,, \ ,,,,,.,,/, y,, \fdr imlinninA a Sm-rlininii 
musimo(n-), DHMfMH-HW. fiovafiuv), a Oarfl 
animal, supposed to be the mouflon.J A wild 
sheep, the mouflon, Otis musimon. 
musing (mu'zing), n. [< ME. musyng ; verbal n. 
of^^i,,,] Thibet of pondering"; Meditation; 
thoughtfuluess. 
Generydes stode still in grete mtuyny, 
And to the queue gaue answere in this case. 
Generydes (E E. T. S ) 1. 491. 
Sometimes into mminas fell 
^ anla fgS m 'ig h t tTll hi's thought 
When he again to common life was brought. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 274. 
musing (mu'zing), p. a. Meditative; thought- 
ful; preoccupied. 
w)th CTen step and mMing gait . 
Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 38. 
musingly (mu'zing-li), adc. In a musing way. 
musion, . [Appar. a corrupt form of mnsi- 
man.] In lier., a wildcat used as a bearing. 
The Cat-a-Mountain, musion, or wild cat. 
Emyc. Brit., XI. 099. 
musitt, An obsolete form of mtiset for 
muse 3 , 1. 
musitiont, An obsolete spelling of mit/tidim. 
musive (mu'ziv), a. [= F. musif, < LL. mm-i- 
turn, < Gr. fiovaeiov, mosaic: see museum and 
mosaic 1 .'] Same as mosaic 1 , 
