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But you must rise from the bass, as a building must rise from its foundations, or the music will be a moan and a monotone.

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  1. noun The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.
  2. noun Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm.
  3. noun A musical composition.

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duduk · etude · armonica · cantabile · glissando · capriccio · rococo · aria · troubador · rigaudon · soprano

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  1. Middle English, from Old French musique, from Latin mūsica, from Greek mousikē (tekhnē), (art) of the Muses, feminine of mousikos, of the Muses, from Mousa, Muse; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English musik, musyk, musike = Dutch muziek, muzijk = Middle Low German Middle High German museke = G. Danish Swedish musik, from Old French (and F.) musique = Spanish música = Portuguese Italian musica, music, from Latin musica = Arabic mūsīqa = Turkish Hindustani musīqī, from Greek μουσική (sc. τέχνη), any art over which the Muses presided, especially lyric poetry set to melody, music; feminine of μουσικός, of the Muses ( μουσικός, a votary of the Muses, a poet, musician, man of letters), from μοῦσα, a muse: see Muse.
  2. from music, n.
 

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