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:
“A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies—the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing, the impaired baby, who changes each day, and the mysterious real baby whose presence is beginning to be evident in the motions of the fetus.”
—T. Berry Brazelton (20th century)
“Then, bringing me the joy we feel when wee see a work by our favorite painter which differs from any other that we know, or if we are led before a painting of which we have until then only seen a pencil sketch, if a musical piece heard only on the piano appears before us clothed in the colors of the orchestra, my grandfather called me the [hawthorn] hedge at Tansonville, saying, “You who are so fond of hawthorns, look at this pink thorn, isn’t it lovely?””
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)