III. WORDS RELATING TO MATTER

III. ORGANIC MATTER

2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; musical sounds

Musician. [Performance of Music]

[Nouns] musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel; bard (poet) [more]; accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist; harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer; catgut scraper.

band, orchestra, waits.

vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress; cantatrice.

choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel.

nightingale, philomel, thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides; sacred nine; Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses, Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore; tuneful nine, tuneful quire.

composer [more].

performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization.

[Verbs] play, pipe, strike up, sweep the chords, tweedle, fiddle; strike the lyre, beat the drum; blow the horn, sound the horn, wind the horn; doodle; grind the organ; touch the guitar (instruments) [more]; thrum, strum, beat time.

execute, perform; accompany; sing a second, play a second; compose, set to music, arrange.

sing, chaunt, chant, hum, warble, carol, chirp, chirrup, lilt, purl, quaver, trill, shake, twitter, whistle; sol-fa; intone.

have an ear for music, have a musical ear, have a correct ear.

[Adjectives] playing; musical.

[Adverbs] adagio, andante (music) [more].