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- adjective Apart from and in addition to
music
Etymologies
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Examples
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Beethoven publicly declared the piece's "extramusical" purpose: an expression of nature.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Beethoven publicly declared the piece's "extramusical" purpose: an expression of nature.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The extramusical amusements were fun, but prevented the gig from building up the momentum a great rock show needs to take flight.
Popsters OK Go are ready, willing but not quite able to rock at 9:30 club 2010
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The extramusical amusements were fun, but ultimately prevented the gig from building up the momentum a great rock show needs to take flight.
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From Dvo ř á k ' s " New World " Symphony, with its construct of Indian and African-American folk idioms, to Messiaen ' s bird-song transcriptions of Bryce Canyon, composers have responded to it most often with collages, drawing on different musical and even extramusical references.
Turning the City Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010
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Miller also virtually invented musical special effects: He made pop records more like a film soundtrack, and utilized extramusical noises, such as dog barks and hoof beats, he said, "to paint a picture in the listener's mind."
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In former times, a composer could make a point instrumentally by drawing on themes with extramusical associations.
Tanglewood Festival: Can Music Talk Politics? - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Yet even without these extramusical circumstances, it seems reasonable that Young's sound would have grown darker and deeper as he got older (as did Sinatra's), and to many of us Young in his 40s is even more melancholy and moving than his earlier self.
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In former times, a composer could make a point instrumentally by drawing on themes with extramusical associations.
Tanglewood Festival: Can Music Talk Politics? - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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But her big extramusical moment came in 1992, when Hillary Clinton went on "" 60 Minutes '' and said she wasn't "" sitting here like some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette. ''
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