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Air
noun · 78% connection
A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Alto
noun · 78% connection
(of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Beat
noun · 78% connection
A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slig…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Blow
noun · 78% connection
The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Chasuble
noun · 78% connection
The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Concertina
noun · 78% connection
A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Essential
adjective · 78% connection
Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Euphoniad
noun · 78% connection
An instrument in which are combined the characteristic tones of the organ and various other instruments.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Extravaganza
noun · 78% connection
A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Fingering
noun · 78% connection
The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Harmonica
noun · 78% connection
A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give fort…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Harmonics
noun · 78% connection
Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Instrumental
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal mu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Interlude
noun · 78% connection
A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Intrusion
noun · 78% connection
The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Key
noun · 78% connection
A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
King
noun · 78% connection
A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
Kirk
noun · 78% connection
A church or the church, in the various senses of the word; esp., the Church of Scotland as distinguished from other reformed churches,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: musical, instrument, resembling, small, organ.
