·noun Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.
II. Music ·noun Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.
III. Music ·noun Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
IV. Music ·noun The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
V. Music ·noun A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. ·see Stridulation.
VI. Music ·noun The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, ·i.e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.