musical
(mjuːzɪkəl )
Word forms: musicals
1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A2
You use musical to indicate that something is connected with playing or studying music.
We have a wealth of musical talent in this region.
Stan Getz's musical career spanned five decades.
London's musical life might become as exciting as Berlin's.
musically (mjuːzɪkli ) adverb [ADVERB after verb]
Musically there is a lot to enjoy.
...trying to communicate verbally what he can only communicate musically.
2. countable noun B2
A musical is a play or film that uses singing and dancing in the story.
...London's smash hit musical Miss Saigon.
3. adjective
Someone who is musical has a natural ability and interest in music.
I came from a musical family.
musicality (mjuːzɪkælɪti ) uncountable noun
...a people of extraordinary musicality.
4. adjective
Sounds that are musical are light and pleasant to hear.
He had a soft, almost musical voice.
Synonyms: melodious, lyrical, harmonious, melodic
musically graded adverb
The voice was as musically soft as ever.
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Collocations:
musical based on musical film musical hits musical notation musical note musical performer musical phrase musical prodigy musical score musical skill musical sound musical stage musical style musical talent musical theatre musical tradition musical training musical tribute musical version rock musical write a musical
They couldn't understand why we had made a musical based on a literary masterpiece.
The Sun
Most of all she'd love to see a musical based on her books.
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A musical based on history's most infamous maritime catastrophe: it's potentially disastrous, as grand a folly as the ship of dreams itself.
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You will be after this magical musical based on the adored film of the same name.
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Have you ever been to see a rock musical based on a back-catalogue?
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That happens, too, in the musical film, where crisp, birds’s eye views capture glittering urban cityscapes of the various sites.
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An intensely musical film director may not use a lot of music.
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It was made into a musical film in 1968.
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The musical film was a natural development of the stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology.
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It was subsequently made into a 1961 musical film.
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In the evening, showtime turned out to be a soloist blasting out the latest musical hits.
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He was particularly known for his interpretations of popular musical hits and his voice, which stretched over four and a half octaves.
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Both were musical hits those days.
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So many of his photographs are like musical notation, you could almost play them!
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In some of his plays he even dictated exactly how a line should be spoken by accompanying the line with musical notation.
Times, Sunday Times
Some detected musical notation, others saw it as calligraphy.
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In these unlikely surroundings, he used musical notation software to play the baroque melody through his computer.
Times, Sunday Times
All the classics are here - and their musical notation at the back for singalongs - and bear repeating.
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Many are blessed with 'perfect pitch', meaning that their brains store an exact memory of any musical note.
Times, Sunday Times
It helps, of course, that he has perfect pitch, enabling him to identify or sing a musical note without a reference tone.
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Grackles are seen running around everywhere, squawking and squeaking and occasionally making a musical note.
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His mark resembles a pin, although it has also been illustrated as a comma or musical note.
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And also possibly, the time-interval between each musical note (length of each step) can be independently adjustable.
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The moon creates a connection with a musical performer which could lead to love.
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It speaks to his growth as a musical performer.
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He has earned through the years an important reputation as a musical performer, cultivating different musical genres and receiving excellent reviews by the critics.
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There are two people involved in the performance: a musical performer and a person telling the story (called a morshed).
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In 1998, he also began a career as a live musical performer.
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As each musical phrase ended with a sustained word or syllable, building through vibrato to an emphasised final consonant, the lack of modulation and textural colouring became apparent.
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If only they had learnt the musical phrase for rigging interest rates.
Times, Sunday Times
Dancers usually leave or enter at the end of a musical phrase.
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Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase.
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Music stickers each have a different musical phrase in them.
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She was a piano teacher who was determined to produce a musical prodigy.
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Now, 250 years after his birth- a miracle of musical prodigy springing from a lineage of weavers and gardeners - the floodgates of hagiography are flung wide again.
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He was considered a musical prodigy and possessed and exhibited innate natural musical ability.
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He was deemed a musical prodigy when he was 4 years old.
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A musical prodigy, he learned to play the piano by age three and wrote a concerto at age eight.
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One of the best films about war ever made: great script: brilliantly acted - with both courage and bleakness reflected in the evocative musical score.
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It has a full musical score, major burlesque numbers, quirky brilliant cinematography.
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His deathless approach to acting seems to be simply saying his lines louder if he's angry, as if working from a musical score.
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You make everything from the artwork to the musical score.
The Sun
Add to this a mesmerising musical score and you have a feast for your eyes and ears.
The Sun
Dance music could be made on cheap drum machines and samplers, without the need for record labels or even musical skill.
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Crucially, though, they ply sweetness as well as sarcasm, and real musical skill.
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Artists' improvements in musical skill or change in taste may also account for the change.
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It was musical poetry mixed with candor, astute humor, understating always - his immense musical skill.
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All of his training aside, his musical skill was said to be an inheritance.
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In that way, a picture of the musical sound and some knowledge of its context can be preserved.
Smithsonian Mag
I had to design a different musical sound.
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Many critics noted the experimental nature of the album, and the increase of the band's breadth of musical sound.
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The music itself served both as a background for the cartoon, and provided musical sound effects.
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The band's musical sound was also heavier, closer to classic metal.
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Growing dissatisfied with her session singer role, she returned to the musical stage with work in a theatre workshop project.
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It transmutes the broadly stylized mood of a mettlesome farce into the gusto and colors of the musical stage...
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The film was in the popular tradition of chanchadas, featuring stars of the musical stage.
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These two genres had dominated the musical stage since the 1870s.
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However, the light musical stage in other countries has become more active in recent decades.
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And they were driven by a generation, by a musical style, by a counterculture, that wanted as little as possible to do with the past.
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With no restrictions on age or musical style, it's great viewing.
The Sun
It's not the first time he has themed an album around a musical style.
The Sun
A gifted writer, she knew how to turn a beautiful phrase, but spent more time 'tearing around town' than developing her musical style.
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Every musical style, whether one likes it or not, has a place in the timeline.
Times, Sunday Times
I didn't think we needed another musical talent show on the telly - surely everyone in the country has now auditioned?
The Sun
Hard to dispute his musical talent, but what about his bizarre utterings?
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I didn't have any musical talent myself, so resolved to find a career backstage.
The Sun
He drove a hard bargain in his business dealings, but he was always encouraging of young musical talent.
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But he also found expression for his considerable musical talent, honed by daily practice almost to the end of his life.
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I'm known for writing funny songs, but it's going to feel like real musical theatre.
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I have done musical theatre for nearly 20 years.
Times, Sunday Times
That return to a provincial idyll was symptomatic of the conservatism of so much postwar musical theatre.
The Times Literary Supplement
The songs of musical theatre are a fertile historical terrain; they point to idiosyncratic, sometimes vanished, worlds.
The Times Literary Supplement
Yet the advent of rock'n'roll meant that the great age of musical theatre was passing.
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Under his influence, the cathedral's magnificent musical tradition went from strength to strength.
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They also saved a great musical tradition from extinction.
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It's a good move, bringing variety to a musical tradition in which it can be lacking.
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He's not a predictable or conventional composer, though he has a positively forensic interest in musical tradition and the notions of collective memory it enshrines.
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He feeds in audio and scores, along with information about the instruments used and the musical tradition.
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But just like musical training, practice seems to be necessary for maintaining the ability to understand speech in noisy backgrounds.
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The finding suggests that musical training has an enduring effect on how the brain processes sound.
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Though the study was later debunked, subsequent research has shown that musical training can lead to structural changes in the brain.
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Much of his early musical training came from a retired driver who initiated the youngster into the secrets of the local styles of drumming.
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Despite no musical training, he displayed a natural aptitude and swiftly became a virtuoso in jazz and blues styles.
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A musical tribute to the early punk-rock pioneer.
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There was a very personal star-studded musical tribute with new songs by contemporary musical theatre writers.
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The show boasts a wide collection of musical tribute artists who resemble and sing like the original artists while being backed by a live band and dancers.
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Her large personality has prompted several musical tributes.
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In this 1988 musical version, those lines are the first thing we hear.
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Along with a musical version of her life, it's become her passion project.
The Sun
Most of us are familiar with the musical version, which only offers a fragmentary outline of its story.
The Sun
It all contributes to a musical version of the greatest sci-fi movie that never was.
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The audience members with seats will each hand over a numbered ticket, which will be placed inside the musical version of the hat - a giant tuba.
Times, Sunday Times
There hasn’t been a real rock musical yet.
Globe and Mail
It's not a straight rock musical, there's other stuff going on.
Times, Sunday Times
Have you ever been to see a rock musical based on a back-catalogue?
Times, Sunday Times
The album sold poorly, reflecting the declining sales throughout the adult-oriented rock musical scene.
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They even incorporate influence from indie rock musical styles.
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I'd actually quite like to write a musical with him.
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It isn't easy to write a musical, and that's an understatement.
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His original intention had been to write a musical but this endeavour proved unsuccessful.
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Last year he acted in a film and wrote a musical.
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After his first term he came home and told us he was already writing a musical for his fellow pupils.
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Translations:
Chinese: 音乐的, 音乐剧
Japanese: 音楽の, ミュージカル
- stratagem
- strategic
- strategic acquisition
- strategic advantage
- strategic adviser
- strategic aim
- strategic alliance
- strategic ally
- strategically
- strategically important
- strategic alternative
- strategic approach
- strategic assessment
- strategic asset
- strategic blunder
- strategic bomber
- strategic capability
- strategic choice
- strategic communication
- strategic consultant
- strategic decision
- strategic defence
- strategic depth
- strategic development
- strategic dialogue