intransitive (or absol.) To perform a serenade.

Music. intransitive. To play a prelude or introductory movement before the main composition. Also: to form a prelude.

intransitive. To compose, or perform, a fugue. (Nonce-use, to fugue it.)

intransitive. Perhaps: to concern oneself with pastoral music. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To play or write a prelude. Also in extended use.

To play a symphony (symphony, n. 5a). Now rare or Obsolete.

transitive. English regional (northern and midlands). To condemn and humiliate (a husband) publicly for beating his wife, typically by causing a…

intransitive. To compose or play musical counterpoint. rare.

intransitive, and transitive with it. To play or dance to ragtime music; to dance a rag.

intransitive and transitive. To perform ragtime music.

intransitive. To play jazz music.

intransitive. To play or dance to popular music with a fast, vigorous rhythm and a strong beat, esp. exuberantly. Cf. to rock and roll at phrases 1b.

intransitive. To play ‘jive’ (jive, n. 2a).

intransitive. To play bop music, or in the style of this.

To play jazz on (any instrument). Also intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.).

intransitive. To dance to or play rock-and-roll music. Cf. to rock and roll at rock, v.1 phrases 1b.

intransitive. To play skiffle music.

intransitive. To dance to or perform hip-hop.