musicking

However, with the new “party shuffle” mode I can have it pick twenty songs at random, then delete all of the BDB and Seinfeld tracks so that I am guaranteed a good hour of musicking.

iTunes 4.5 2004

I've been musicking far more than ever: learning basic theory (triads, dominants, diminuished, etc.), composing (pen under strings on fretboard, screwdriver and metal slide, violin in the stairwell), recording (a redux in my bedroom, now able to record in the 16-track studio).

oatcake Diary Entry oatcake 2006

For on the previous evening, Sally being out musicking and expected home late, Fenwick and Mrs. Nightingale had gone out in the back-garden to enjoy the sweet air of that rare phenomenon -- a really fine spring night in England -- leaving the Major indoors because of his bronchial tubes.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

Small considered the process of musicking to be an instrument of socialisation in all cultures and "a way in which we explore, affirm and celebrate our concepts of ideal relationships … in ways that talking or reading can never allow us to do".

The Guardian World News Dave Laing 2011

His equally unequivocal view of music education was that it should be removed from the classroom to a network of music centres where people of all ages could engage in musicking and dancing, and where instruction is offered as the need is felt for it.

The Guardian World News Dave Laing 2011