ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Lydian measures; slow music, slow movement; adagio &c adv.; minuet; siren strains,
soft music, lullaby; dump; dirge &c (lament) 839; pibroch † ; martial music, march; dance
music; waltz &c (dance) 840.
solo, duet, duo, trio; quartet, quartett † ; septett † ; part song, descant, glee, madrigal,
catch, round, chorus, chorale; antiphon † , antiphony; accompaniment, second, bass; score;
bourdon † , drone, morceau † , terzetto † .
composer &c 413; musician &c 416.
V. compose, perform &c 416; attune.
Adj. musical; instrumental, vocal, choral, lyric, operatic; harmonious &c 413;
Wagnerian.
Adv. adagio; largo, larghetto, andante, andantino † ; alla capella [It]; maestoso † , moderato;
allegro, allegretto; spiritoso † , vivace † , veloce † ; presto, prestissimo † ; con brio;
capriccioso † ; scherzo, scherzando † ; legato, staccato, crescendo, diminuendo, rallentando † ,
affettuoso † ; obbligato; pizzicato; desto † .
Phr. in notes by distance made more sweet [Collins]; like the faint exquisite music of a
dream [Moore]; music arose with its voluptuous swell [Byron]; music is the universal
language of mankind [Longfellow]; music's golden tongue [Keats]; the speech of angels
[Carlyle]; will sing the savageness out of a bear [Othello]; music hath charms to soothe
the savage beast.
416. Musician [Performance of Music.] -- N. musician, artiste, performer, player,
minstrel; bard &c (poet) 597; [specific types of musicians] accompanist, accordionist,
instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist; harper, fiddler, fifer † , trumpeter, piper,
drummer; catgut scraper.
band, orchestral waits.
vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter † , chauntress † , songstress;
cantatrice † .
choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel [G.].
nightingale, philomel † , thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides; sacred nine; Orpheus,
Apollo † , the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore; tuneful nine, tuneful quire.
composer &c 413.
performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization † .
V. play, pipe, strike up, sweep the chords, tweedle, fiddle; strike the lyre, beat the drum;
blow the horn, sound the horn, wind the horn; doodle; grind the organ; touch the guitar
&c (instruments) 417; thrum, strum, beat time.
execute, perform; accompany; sing a second, play a second; compose, set to music,
arrange.
sing, chaunt, chant, hum, warble, carol, chirp, chirrup, lilt, purl, quaver, trill, shake,
twitter, whistle; sol-fa † ; intone.
have an ear for music, have a musical ear, have a correct ear.
Adj. playing &c v.; musical.
Adv. adagio, andante &c (music) 415.
417. Musical Instruments -- N. musical instruments; band; string-band, brass-band;
orchestra; orchestrina † .