ADJ
- beautiful, good, great, wonderful
- loud
- quiet, soft, sweet
- The soft background music made her feel sleepy
- heavy
- Heavy music thundered from the basement
- light
- serious
- tonal
- atonal, twelve-note
- contrapuntal, polyphonic
- original
- live
- recorded, taped
- background
- piped
- band, choral, instrumental, orchestral, symphonic
- guitar, keyboard, organ, piano, vocal, etc.
- chamber
- church, liturgical, religious, sacred
- secular
- ballet, film, incidental, theme
- the incidental music for a radio play
- computer, electronic
- Western
- traditional
- period
- Appropriate period music can be played on visits to a historic building
- experimental
- avant-garde, Baroque, classical, contemporary, early, medieval, modern
- black, calypso, country, dance, disco, ethnic, folk, gospel, indie, jazz, pop/popular, rap, rave, reggae, rock, soul, underground, world
VERB + MUSIC
- listen to
- Listening to music is a great way to relax
- hear
- She could hear music coming from the upstairs flat
- make, perform, play
- We love to make music as a family
- play, put on
- Put some music on, would you? (= play a CD/ cassette)
- turn down/up
- Could you turn that music down?
- compose, write
- arrange
- put/set sth to
- Schubert set several poems by Goethe to music
- create, produce
- With the guidance of the conductor, an orchestra creates music and harmonies. The city has produced a lot of good music
- provide
- a beach party with music provided by a local band
- broadcast
- record
- be into, enjoy, like, love
- She's really into rock music
- get into
- He got into music (= became involved in the music business) by chance
MUSIC + VERB
- play
- Calypso music played faintly in the distance
- blare, thunder
- disco music blaring out of the open windows of a car
- come, drift
- The music was coming from next door
MUSIC + NOUN
- business, industry
- scene
- Birmingham's live music scene
- world
- She is a rising star in the music world
- press
- The album has been praised in the music press
- charts
- The band are number one in the music charts
- festival
- appreciation
- fan, lover
- critic, director, teacher
- the choir's music director
- group
- centre
- We bought a new television and music centre at the weekend
- video
- room
PREP
- to (the) ~
- to dance to the music
PHRASES
- in time to (the) music
- They did their exercises in time to the music
- music and song
- an evening of Scottish music and song
- the sound of music
- The sound of pop music drifted through the open window
- a style of music, taste in music
- Her taste in music was wide
- words and music
- He made up the words and music for the song
MUSIC + NOUN
- score
- stand
- Put your music on the music stand
- publisher, publishing
PREP
- ~ for
- music for piano, cello and voice
PHRASES
- play/sing, etc. with/without (the) music