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ons; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. The most affecting music is generally the most simple.

e united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.

Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music.

The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused. Johnson. R. Browning.

selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.

A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

ng a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.

was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest re…

Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing. [R.] Music her soft assuasive voice applies. Pope.

To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.

A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.

A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.