musical style

collocation in English

meaningsofmusicalandstyle

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musical
adjective
uk
/ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəl/
us
/ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəl/
related to or connected ...
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style
noun
uk
/staɪl/
us
/staɪl/
a way of doing something, especially one that is typical of a person, group of people, place, ...
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(Definition ofmusicalandstylefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmusical style

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Staging by professional actor-managers became lavish as scenery, costumes, andmusicalstylewere coordinated for spectacular effects.
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The most usualmusicalstyleis fast three-chord punk with political lyrics.
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This article gives an overview of the aesthetic implications of these traditions and with respect to laptop performance andmusicalstyle.
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These two characteristics are essential in order to understand why rap is much more than amusicalstyle.
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There are comparisons across time and across national border, across literary form andmusicalstyle.
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Her main research interests lie in cognitive musicology, involving music education and artificial intelligence,musicalstyleand intertextuality, auditive music analysis and training music teachers.
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This phenomenon seems to have its origins in the ability of the system to replicate themusicalstyleof the children.
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Stylistics (stylistic studies) is a course based on developing an understanding ofmusicalstylethrough analysis and composition.
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However, rock was the favouritemusicalstyleoverall followed by art music and jazz.
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He does not acknowledge some of the works on this recording, as he feels they do not represent his currentmusicalstyle.
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Similarly, themusicalstyleof the song invokes both some unworldly place and the documentary past.
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What is more, the portrayal bites deep into themusicalstyle.
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Have acoustics remained underappreciated in our assessments ofmusicalstyleand performance?
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The distinction rests both upon liturgical function and onmusicalstyle.
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In other words, without this social knowledge, we would not know how to assign elements ofmusicalstyleto different categories of music.
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The future of modernism is unlikely to be a question ofmusicalstylealone - or even primarily.
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Yet there are numerous oppositions ofmusicalstyleand language, some already mentioned, and it is not necessary to suppose that each is 'coherently' reconciled.
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The work is characterized by ritual and symbolism although themusicalstyleis eclectic - perhaps unsurprising, given the 26 years it took to complete.
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There are obvious dangers in this approach, since the same signs are used in passages of quite differentmusicalstyle.
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