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Musical

adjective

Characterized by or capable of producing music. "Musical instruments"

Talented in or devoted to music.

Characteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music. "A musical comedy"

Containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody. Synonyms: melodic, melodious.

noun

A play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing. Synonyms: musical comedy, musical theater.

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"Musical" Quotes from Famous Books

... Thomas had been the last conductor; his orchestra the last musical expression fit for a cultivated society; the Academy of Music remained their last symphonic temple, Wallack's the last refuge of a ...

— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers

... laughed Anstruther, "such a rose as the peerless Nadine Johnstone must have a duenna." He deftly caught an impassioned glance from the softly shining brown eyes, and hastily went on. "She was educated right here in this emporium of watches, musical boxes, correct principles, and scientific research. Mesdames Justine and Euphrosyne Delande, No. 122 Rue du Rhone, conduct an institute (justly renowned) where calisthenics, a view of the lake, a little music, a great deal ...

— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage

... esteem only of the handful of people who think for themselves. I should say that no first-class modern French author is more perfectly unknown and uncared-for in England than Henri Becque. I once met a musical young woman who had never heard of Ibsen (she afterwards married a man with twelve thousand a year—such is life!), but I have met dozens and scores of enormously up-to-date persons who had never heard ...

— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett

... dwelt, with the painful industry of grief, over each minute circumstance connected with the bereavements she had sustained, her voice softened to those accents of quiet mournfulness, which make impressive the most simple words, and render musical the most unsteady tones. It seemed as if those tenderer and kinder emotions, which the attractions of her offspring had once generated in her character, had at the bidding of memory become revivified in her manner while she lingered over the recital ...

— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

... furniture, including the piano-forte (which, at one perilous moment, threatened to remain for the rest of its life at the turn of the staircase), transferred from the shop parlour. Bulpert announced his intention of taking charge of the musical and dramatic part of the entertainment. Bulpert no longer considered himself a visitor at Praed Street, and on one occasion he entered a stern protest when he found Mr. Trew's hat there, resting upon the peg which he considered his own. Twice he had suggested that Gertie should lend him half a sovereign, ...

— Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge

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