Musical

Musical is the adjective form of music. It may also refer to:

  • Musical artist
  • Musical composer
  • Musical composition, an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music
  • Musical ensemble, a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music
  • Musical film: musicals on film produced for the cinema
  • Musical instrument, a device created or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds
  • Musical Instrument Digital Interface, an industry-standard protocol that enables electronic musical instruments, computers and other electronic equipment to communicate and synchronize with each other
  • Musical keyboard, the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano
  • Musical theatre: any dramatic work heavily involving music; often called a "musical"
  • MusicAL: Albanian Television channel which broadcasts Albanian folk music
  • Musical Merry-Go-Round, a NBC TV series which aired from 1947 to 1949


Famous quotes containing the word musical:

    “There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader’s boat.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    “Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)