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Meanings of musical form in English

Russian
музыкальная форма
Portuguese
forma musical
Spanish
forma musical
Catalan
forma musical

Overall structure or plan of a piece of music.

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        музыкальная форма

        Type of fighting style; martial arts training.

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              Usage of musical form in English
              1
              No musical form, however frightful, seems immune from reinvention, reconstitution or revivification.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Carrie is back this month, in musical form, at the Southwark Playhouse.
              The Guardian
              3
              Poetry, the most musical form of literature, is its most artistic form.
              The Practice and Science of Drawing
              4
              Qawwali is a beloved Pakistani musical form characterized by complex vocalizations and improvisation.
              Reuters
              5
              It was, in essence, what every great American musical form was at its beginning.
              The Irish Times
              6
              The essential principle of musical form-formin music-isquite analogous to form in literature.
              The Masters and Their Music / A series of illustrative programs ...
              7
              It was the perfect musical form for these super-connected times.
              Wired
              8
              The lectures on musical form were distinguished by many brilliant demonstrations of MacDowell's genius.
              Edward MacDowell: A Study
              9
              Its piano comes from the tradition of ragtime, the musical form that directly proceeded jazz.
              BBC
              10
              Jane O'Brien looks at how the musical form is being adapted to suit contemporary audiences.
              BBC
              11
              He calls his verses "recitatives," in easily followed allusion to a musical form.
              Familiar Studies of Men and Books
              12
              Expressing a given idea in musical form, e.g.
              Music as a Language: Lectures to Music Students
              13
              Although its musical form is that of a halliard shanty, it was always used for the capstan.
              The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
              14
              But these feelings could only find their fullest outlet in the musical form expressly suited to subjective emotion.
              The Great German Composers
              15
              Repetitive instructions are often delivered in a musical form, making them more easily understood by babies and children.
              Radio NZ
              16
              Perhaps the ultimate musical form for hackers, the international chiptune scene spawned directly from the cracking of copyright protection.
              Wired
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              Translations for musical form
              Portuguese
              forma musical
              Musical form through the time
              Musical form across language varieties
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