noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
18th-/19th- etc century art/music/literature
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Nothing compares with Florence's beautiful 15th-century architecture.
a CD/record/music collection
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Have you seen his CD collection?
a film/art/music etc critic
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He became the chief music critic for the Herald Tribune.
a film/music/dance/arts festival
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The movie won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
a film/music/poetry etc award
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the annual British music awards
a football/music/essay etc competition
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There’s a music competition in the town on June 12th.
a music/jazz/rock etc fan
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Jazz fans are in for a treat at this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival.
alternative music/theatre etc
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Tucson’s alternative radio station
an art/music/drama college
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The Music College was founded in 1869.
baroque music/architecture/paintings etc
BBC6 Music
chamber music
chillout music
church music
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church music for small choirs
classical music/musician/composer etc
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a leading classical violinist
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a classical repertoire
contemporary art/music/dance
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Each year there is a contemporary music festival in November.
country music
dance music
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A small band was playing dance music.
elevator music
film music
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In 'La Strada', Nino Rota demonstrates the poetic power of film music.
folk music
house music
incidental music
live music
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A lot of the bars have live music .
mood music
music biz
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the music biz
music box
music hall
music lovers
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music lovers
music stand
music/wine snob
piano music
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You can listen to live piano music while you dine.
piece of music/writing/sculpture etc
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some unusual pieces of sculpture
piped music
pop music
rock music
sheet music
soul music
the film/music industry (= the work of producing films or music )
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She would really like to work in the music industry.
the music/entertainment/computer etc business
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He started out working in the computer business.
the music/jazz etc scene
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She’s still involved in the music scene in London.
whale music/song (= sounds made by whales )
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Scientists believe that whale song is used to communicate.
world music
writers’/drama/music etc workshop
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They held a number of music workshops and seminars.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
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We declare that there is such a thing as alternative country music .
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But does Southern rock have a place in alternative music ?
black
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Any blend of black and country music would have powerful precedents.
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The white execs had no interest in the effect this would have on the traditions of black music .
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There is also a steady turnover of smaller, and often short-lived, black music mags reflecting underground phenomena like hip-hop.
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But what I find interesting is the young black customers getting into older black music .
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He certainly doesn't hate all black music .
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The irony is that disco began as an extension of black dance music .
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Top 40 rock is increasingly dominated by black music .
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There were still no stations aimed exclusively at blacks and no stations that specialized in forms of black music besides swing.
classical
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Interviews with people who profess to enjoy classical music turn up all sorts and conditions of appreciation.
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She grew up to love classical music .
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The rich, and white, citizens are pulling up the cultural drawbridge to the sound of classical music .
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A lot of jazz and classical music was part of my music too, thanks to my uncle.
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The bus driver washed the windows as a classical music tape played from his dashboard.
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It's learned, hieratic, almost classical music , made by players from an hereditary elite.
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This is probably the safest choice that a rookie classical music giver can make this season.
contemporary
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One of the most disliked is contemporary music .
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Particularly if it means introducing contemporary music to Angelenos.
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He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn.
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What the future entails is some very contemporary music slipped into concerts featuring lovable old favorites.
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In contemporary experimental music , the emphases are sometimes reversed.
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It is also useful for some contemporary music where a light, jazz-style accompaniment is required.
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The humorous, self-mocking twist to much contemporary music is helping, according to Sam &038; Co.
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There is indeed quite an amount of contemporary music which seems designed to keep us in a state of perpetual shock.
folk
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At age 5, Jewel began performing in clubs as part of a folk music trio with her parents.
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If you hear the mandolin today, it's usually in bluegrass or Neapolitan folk music .
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Acoustic and folk music fans are familiar with her 20-year span of live performance and recorded works.
live
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Tom was in a restaurant, enquiring about the live music advertised outside.
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They have live music six nights a week.
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There is a full entertainments programme during the high season and the hotel has a taverna with frequent live music .
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In the saloon, there is live country music on weekends.
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There is a games room where you can play pool or table-tennis, and live music is planned for the summer.
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With that gesture began a long day of live music by every Stax artist to raise money for the Watts Summer Festival.
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Their popular Canal Boat restaurant has live music .
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Think live music is something only the wealthy can enjoy?
new
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The repertoire is extended by the publication of new music each quarter.
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And the first, Donald Palma, arrived Monday with impressive credentials in the new music field.
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They spent hours together, particularly when one or the other had acquired a new piece of music .
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He was new to the music .
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Friday marks the start of a new music programme as Channel 4 turns its hand to dance.
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For in this new music nothing takes place but sounds: those that are notated and those that are not.
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From a secure base parish musicians can be adventurous in exploring new music and in experimenting with differing styles.
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But much can be done to teach new music by one person using voice and gesture alone.
pop
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From the perspective of youth culture and pop music two aspects of this are significant.
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Another example is pop music , emanating from radio, audio cassettes, etc., and geared to a specific age group.
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Last year will not be remembered as a high-water mark in pop music history.
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Hanging red lights shone on leatherette couches and framed relief pictures of vintage cars. Pop music pounded from the jukebox.
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Webb quickly became an important retailer in a city that was then a major center for pop music .
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The pop music had been turned up quite loud now, and they were all hammering and banging away.
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No, seriously, they watched to hear some of the biggest names in pop music perform their biggest hits.
popular
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It is the centrality of recordings within popular music today.
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Throughout the 1920s and 1930s this trio defined for many regions popular music , and everything after it would be for ever changed.
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For the dissemination and reception of popular music , the approach is weaker, as we have seen.
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I learned that when Andre and I recorded, and when we did occasional recital-hall concerts of popular music .
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Soprano Gretchen Johnson skillfully sang the witty minimal texts set to an academic mix of serial and popular music styles.
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So Green turned to popular music .
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This was the period which saw a revolution in popular music and the beginning of rock'n'roll.
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In the history of popular music , these truths are self-evident.
rock
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I could just make out the faint vibrating thum-thum of rock music .
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Loud rock music bellows from the speakers.
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Later releases found her tripping nonchalantly through country &038; western, rock and dance music .
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And who really needs rock music , hair coloring and makeup anyway?
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Stuff he's into: Skateboarding, hip-hop and rock music , gigs, clubbing.
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Loud rock music blasting away at these old guys.
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In some ways these two -- one from modern dance, the other from rock music -- are an odd match.
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There, in her early teens, she got into rock music , especially Led Zeppelin.
traditional
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Dublin's brand of rock music merges at times with traditional music, and the studios are used for both styles.
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That is the traditional music of Tuva now.
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She had decided in favour of traditional wedding music and a dignified procession.
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The multiracial ensemble provides cushiony support to Anderson and other vocal soloists in traditional and original music .
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Sales of traditional church music records are boosted annually before Christmas, with a wide variety of recordings of carols.
■ NOUN
background
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No need to interrupt the background music just to page the concierge.
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To almost deafening background music , she does take a lover.
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It lifted the spirits, caused conversation, got the party going. Background music made a change from bookies' cries.
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Sometimes there's jazz, sometimes classical, but there's always good background music .
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She could even hear background music , syrupy and soothing, in her head.
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They provided background music while people ate and talked, played cards, to give you a pleasant ambience.
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As well as providing background music , the stand will include an ongoing workshop demonstrating the process of producing new pieces.
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Here the sound of running water can be heard like faint background music .
business
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It just shows you that the music business is like football: unpredictable.
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Books and movies appear to be undergoing the same kind of metamorphosis worldwide that is transforming the music business .
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Strip away the insincerity and the hype from the music business and see it for what it is, a jungle.
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Actually he hates the music business , and that whole London scene.
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The rest of the Condemned were still nonentities, the clerks and Civil Servants of the music business .
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Currently, music business solicitors are in the talent-spotting game, just like record companies, publishers, managers and agents.
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Instead of quitting the music business she should have learned to use it for singing rather than mouthing off at every opportunity.
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Solowka thinks Charman was unnaturally suspicious of anyone connected with the music business .
chamber
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Here muted lights, soft leather, stained wood and anaesthetic chamber music prevailed.
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Originally, chamber music meant secular music, or that of the court as distinct from that of the Church.
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They have done so as part of a widely comprehensive output, ranging from chamber music to symphonies and opera.
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With a sound financial base, the Friends have been able to go for stars in the chamber music circuit.
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It's chamber music , to all intents and purposes, and they're receiving it like a home run.
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If approximately $ 15, 000 can be raised, SummerFest will even unite modern dance and chamber music .
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His is the only post-war body of symphonic and chamber music to achieve genuine popularity.
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I was very lucky to study music theory so early and so thoroughly, and I played a lot of chamber music.
country
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I switch from Limbaugh to a country music station.
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The song is a model of economy and shows how less is almost always more in country music .
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The real point is, country music is back - like it or not.
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Given the monochromatic melodrama of modern country music , versatility may not be the correct answer.
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How can a show about songs for the dumped ignore country music ?
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Little Feat provided uptempo bluegrass; and Trisha Yearwood the country music .
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Last weekend the highlights were marionettes miming to Die Fledermaus at the puppet theatre and a country music festival.
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When she talked to the current victims, she found they were all patrons of two very popular country music dance halls.
critic
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Unfortunately, Howard Reich, a Chicago music critic , fails to solve the mystery of the pianist's rise and disappearance.
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Examiner music critic Philip Elwood is the dean of Bay Area jazz writers.
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While hipper contemporaries were playing the clubs the music critics went to, he was making a living playing local pubs.
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Is the guy trying to make life difficult for music critics , or what?
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Later he became the New Yorker's music critic and went on to be music editor of the Listener.
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Leaving behind the familiar phrasings, Coltrane began to produce swirls of sound and visceral shrieks that puzzled and angered music critics .
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Bob Halliday, music critic of the Bangkok Post, says it is.
dance
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Previously naff companies are suddenly revamping their image by involving themselves in dance music .
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When Al Jourgensen started the band in 1981, Ministry made synthesized dance music .
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When the dance music starts they play games.
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The irony is that disco began as an extension of black dance music .
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This isn't Vibes is it? Dance music in the On page?
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Almost everyone loves to dance , but what is the best dance music ?
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There was a piano and Charlie obligingly played dance music so the girls could charleston.
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Tom turned the radio on to a station that played dance music .
gospel
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She also heard some hot gospel music - and liked it so much she asked for more.
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There are different types of gospel music .
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The next show, this Saturday night, covers gospel music .
hall
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But in London it brought belly laughs with a bawdy display of music hall humour and saucy songs.
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This is something I learnt to do when I was working in provincial music halls .
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They didn't pay much, but they were more like the old music halls than anything left in the South.
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It must be a music hall comedian's dream.
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So far only men entertainers have been allowed - music hall acts and that sort of thing.
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We've lots of theatre memorabilia saved from old music halls and theatres.
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Even those hostile found the play's closeness to music hall to be its strength.
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In September 1847, £2,500 was allocated for a combined lecture room, library, reading room and music hall .
industry
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As far as the music industry , as far as any industry, you don't have to settle for any of it.
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The music industry , alone, did $ 12 billion in business in 1993.
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A neat solution for the music industry , and one which works well.
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So why is much of the music industry on a Death Row deathwatch?
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Business interests in the music industry occupied his later years.
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For many years Norfolk and the whole of East Anglia has been neglected and ridiculed by the music industry .
rap
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The pseudonym had been insisted upon by the other band members, since they had openly attacked rap music in the past.
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At the news conference, Bennett played the radio ads along with excerpts from the rap music in question.
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Spielberg's film swamps the Neverland with baseball and basketball, with burgers and skateboards and rap music .
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Workshops on desegregation, education reform, military discrimination and rap music were packed, and discussion was lively.
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Low-rider chariots with rap music blasting, silent horseback riders.
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The ads seek to convince corporations to stop producing certain rap music and to convince consumers to stop buying.
scene
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The live music scene remains amazingly diverse, encompassing all variations of rock, blues, roots and world music.
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They all have lively community music scenes .
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Most of their readers are young, white and male and their interest in the music scene is intense.
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We have a healthy music scene here, like the other states chosen.
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The latest new from classical music scene .
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Both emerged from fertile local music scenes and were led by strong, politically aware black leaders.
sheet
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He repaired to it, deposited three dollars, borrowed a book and some sheet music , and then bought a violin.
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He was subsequently traced and cleared by Oxford police, who knew him as Stephen Smith, a wandering sheet music salesman.
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Clyde also brought along his saxophone and sheet music .
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There is also the possibility of further income for the composer from sales of sheet music .
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Because of them he could see what nobody else could see. Sheet music and the two-cent royalty were just a beginning.
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Although we did receive some sheet music , we mainly got tapes.
soul
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The girls at my school like soul music , and singers like Neneh Cherry and Janet Jackson.
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Fortunately, there's usually groovy soul music playing and eye-catching art adorning the walls.
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It's quite clear that the influence of soul music in pop has become poisonous, repressive, grey and total.
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Real soul music , translated into psychedelia.
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Finally the new adverts themselves were partly responsible for the revival of early 1960s soul music in the late 1980s.
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Procul Harum superimpose on the Bach harmonies a vocal whose style derives from soul music .
world
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This features Boyle with bass and drums playing acoustic and electric guitars and synthesizers, with a strong world music emphasis.
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Experts on the music business hold that New York and London are well on their way out as the world music towns.
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Jazz, world music and roots 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, W1.
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The live music scene remains amazingly diverse, encompassing all variations of rock, blues, roots and world music.
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It's an early example of world music , with jazz rock elements leavened by Balinese disciplines.
■ VERB
compose
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Some regularly compose new music for their choirs.
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But then Philip went ahead and composed the music .
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He basically composes music for electric guitars, and he does some wild things.
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I studied painting, composed music , did some woodworking, wrote poems....
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By 1935 Kenneth had discovered the pleasures of composing serious music and had several works published.
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He has composed chamber music , symphonic works and opera, and conducted his music around the globe.
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But he also produced, directed, acted and composed the music .
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From 1969 he composed music for his own groups formed for recordings, broadcasts and tours.
face
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Constance knew the time had come to face the music and speak to Nora.
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Now she can face the music .
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We gently persuaded them to do the right thing and come back to face the music .
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It was hard to believe that it was almost time to face the music .
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I had to face the music , I had to face myself.
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Read in studio Still to come on Central News, facing the music .
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It was not just Diana who had to face the music but her parents as well.
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They can't tell us how to live and not face the music when their own conduct is questioned.
hear
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She said something he could not hear and the music ceased.
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I wanted to hear some music , I said.
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He had a box to hear music and a backpack for his stuff.
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It's quite nice because the people at the classes come to hear the music as well as to keep fit.
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As we taxied up and the motors were turned off, we could hear martial music from a khaki-clad military band.
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Curious how you couldn't hear the music at all.
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You hear muted music , the lower octaves from an organ.
like
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Roy likes music of any kind, from mainstream classical to U2.
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He liked to record his music as soon as he got an idea.
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I know she liked the theme music .
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I found acceptance in my music , so -- no matter what I was -- they liked my music.
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I like music , theatre, cinema, books.
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He liked Country and Western music , and newscasts.
listen
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Do you listen to music when you're travelling?
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Adults went home, listened to quiet music , lived in disbelief and fear.
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Alternatively, you can switch off by listening to music , or think about something peaceful.
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Likes to spend time online talking to friends and listening to music .
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I didn't listen to music or watch television.
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Even back then they listened to the same music .
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He asked me to take a seat and listen to some music he would put on.
play
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Now everybody's askin' why are all these women playing aggressive music .
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Buddy Benton and his band were celebrating his birthday by playing country-western music in her garage.
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Some one was playing rock music in the flat above and the faint throb hovered in the sitting-room.
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A radio on a shelf played soothing music .
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I thought about it as men playing music , I didn't think about it as women playing music, especially rock.
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Country and Western music was playing on the music system.
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His successors learn to play and enjoy music - also to forge iron and bronze.
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I learned about the men and women who played that music and how their spirits were received by Bob Dylan.
record
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Once you have recorded your music , the first step to releasing it is to make the cuts.
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His embrace of recorded music over live performances would eventually lead to a shift in the role of records on radio.
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I still have the tape on which I recorded the songs and music of that evening.
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He liked to record his music as soon as he got an idea.
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On the whole he preferred recorded music and the chance it gave for repeated hearings.
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S., discotheques became popular as places you danced to recorded music , just like at a house party.
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That was the first recording of Tuvan music released in the west.
write
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Although he wrote chamber and orchestral music , songs were his true vocation.
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Haydn wrote symphonies, chamber music , keyboard pieces, operas.
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He enjoyed sketching, writing verse and playing music .
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Maddy scored his film and writes her own music but earns her living composing for commercials.
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Throughout this time the fourteen-year-old Mozart was writing and performing music , hearing other music performed and seeing the local sights.
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But he also is in a community symphony, plays in the school marching band, and writes music .
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Time is passed by reading, writing , listening to music , playing cards, doing jigsaws, etc.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a snatch of conversation/music/song etc
ambient music/sounds
canned music/laughter
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Some hotels programme their canned music in twenty-four hour cycles, varying by location and the hour.
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You do not warm to this lady, who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter.
face the music
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Rather than face the music at a trial, Abingdon chose to plea bargain.
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Constance knew the time had come to face the music and speak to Nora.
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I had to face the music, I had to face myself.
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It was hard to believe that it was almost time to face the music.
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It was not just Diana who had to face the music but her parents as well.
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Now she can face the music.
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Read in studio Still to come on Central News, facing the music.
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They can't tell us how to live and not face the music when their own conduct is questioned.
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We gently persuaded them to do the right thing and come back to face the music.
feel-good film/programme/music etc
honky-tonk music/piano
it's a girl/football/music etc thing
theme music/song/tune
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Gowie Corby, Gowie Corby, the theme tune for all that's wrong in this school.
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I know she liked the theme music.
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I worked on the theme song with Ziggy Marley.
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Sometimes the cartoon theme song is better than some of the episodes themselves.
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Tampons that play the Hollyoaks theme tune when inserted?
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The theme music for the show starts up.
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The theme music starts and I immediately find something more interesting to do.
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The theme tune from Titanic was played at their wedding.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Did you study music at school?
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He arranged his music on the stand.
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I've never been a big fan of country music .
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Lincoln High has a good music program.
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My daughter teaches music .
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Oh, what beautiful music !
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The music was so loud you couldn't carry on a conversation.
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The club has live music every Saturday night.
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The Royal College of Music
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What kind of music does your band play?
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What kinds of music do you like?
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Would you like to listen to some music ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lot of jazz and classical music was part of my music too, thanks to my uncle.
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After the win, there was one more piece of music .
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Early childhood is also a time when drama, dance and music have a significant part to pay.
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I felt very moved by the sincerity of worship, the music , the servers - such dignity.
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If she closed her eyes she could see again those glittering lights and hear the gay, entrancing music .
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It was an odd period in music .
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Off in a corner by yourselves, you slow-danced to music only you could hear.
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They went to cultural events, they took music lessons.