Word Meanings - MINSTRELSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."
Additional info about word: MINSTRELSY
1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven." Milton.
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- MUSIC HALL
A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium. - MINSTRELSY
1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven." - MUSICALLY
In a musical manner. - MUSICAL
Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons. Musical, or Music, - MUSIC DRAMA
An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious - MUSICALE
A social musical party. - MUSICOMANIA
A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison. - MUSICALNESS
The quality of being musical. - MELODY
A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and - MUSICIAN
One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument. - MUSIC
A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation. Magic music, a game in which a person is guided in finding a hidden article, or in doing a specific art required, by music which is made more loud or rapid - PHILOMUSICAL
Loving music. Busby. - IMMUSICAL
Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant. Bacon.