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A complete musical sentence. The period, the present or current time, as distinguished from all other times.

or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.

Loving harmony or music.

of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by König for testing the quality of musical strings.

The act or method of grouping the notes so as to form distinct musical phrases.

so called because fabled to have been invented by the Phrygian Marsyas. Moore (Encyc. of Music). -- Phrygian stone, a light, spongy stone, resembling a pumice, -- used by the ancients in dyeing, and said to be drying and astringent.

A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a sreies of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys. Dumb piano. See Digitorium. -- Grand piano. See under Grand. -- Square piano, one with a horizontal frame and an oblong case. -- Uprig…

A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle. Jamieson.

A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.

A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." Milton. Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. Shak.

Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains." Swift.

To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute. One that . . . can play well on an instrument. Ezek. xxxiii. 32. Play, my friend, and charm the charmer. Granville.

One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16.

To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.

Poetry; metrical composition; poems. Music and poesy used to quicken you. Shak.

llectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry. "The planetlike music of poetry." Sir P. Sidney. She taketh most delight In music, instruments, and poetry. Shak.

osing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca.

A musical instrument of ten strings.

A piece of music made up of different airs strung together; a medley.