Musical Definition–adjective | 1. | of, pertaining to, or producing music: a musical instrument. |
| 2. | of the nature of or resembling music; melodious; harmonious. |
| 3. | fond of or skilled in music. |
| 4. | set to or accompanied by music: a musical entertainment. |
–noun | 5. | Also called musical comedy. a play or motion picture in which the story line is interspersed with or developed by songs, dances, and the like. |
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Instrument Definition–noun | 1. | a mechanical tool or implement, esp. one used for delicate or precision work: surgical instruments. |
| 2. | a contrivance or apparatus for producing musical sounds: a stringed instrument. |
| 3. | a means by which something is effected or done; agency: an instrument of government. |
| 4. | a device for measuring the present value of a quantity under observation. |
| 5. | a mechanical or electronic measuring device, esp. one used in navigation: landing a plane by instruments. |
| 6. | a formal legal document, as a draft or bond: negotiable instruments. |
| 7. | a person used by another merely as a means to some private end; tool or dupe. |
–verb (used with object) | 8. | to equip with instruments, as a machine or manufacturing process: to instrument a space vehicle. |
| 9. | to arrange a composition for musical instruments; orchestrate. |
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Related topics from Britannicamusical instrument
any device for producing a musical sound. The principal types of such instruments, classified by the method of producing sound, are percussion, stringed, keyboard, wind, and electronic.transposing musical instrument
instrument that produces a higher or lower pitch than indicated in music written for it. Examples include clarinets, the English horn, and saxophones. Musical notation written for transposing ...
wind instrument
any musical instrument that uses air as the primary vibrating medium for the production of sound.electronic instrument
any musical instrument that produces or modifies sounds by electric, and usually electronic, means. The electronic element in such music is determined by the composer, and the sounds themselves are ...
percussion instrument
any musical instrument belonging to either of two groups, idiophones or membranophones. Idiophones are instruments whose own substance vibrates to produce sound (as opposed to the strings of a guitar ...
keyboard instrument
any musical instrument on which different notes can be sounded by pressing a series of keys, push buttons, or parallel levers. In nearly all cases in Western music the keys correspond to consecutive ...
stringed instrument
any musical instrument that produces sound by the vibration of stretched strings, which may be made of vegetable fibre, metal, animal gut, silk, or artificial materials such as plastic or nylon. In ...
musical bow
stringed musical instrument found in most archaic cultures as well as in many in the present day. It consists of a flexible stick 1.5 to 10 feet (0.5 to 3 m) long, strung end to end with a taut cord ...
musical performance
step in the musical process during which musical ideas are realized and transmitted to a listener. In Western music, performance is most commonly viewed as an interpretive art, though it is not ...
musical sound
any tone with characteristics such as controlled pitch and timbre. The sounds are produced by instruments in which the periodic vibrations can be controlled by the performer. |
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