Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Skill in musical composition or expression; musical acquirements.
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- noun The
skill of amusician or of acomposer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun artistry in performing music
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Examples
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Although we fought all of her pushy efforts to foist her old-fashioned, haute-bourgeois culture on us, I would have to say, 40 years later, that my amateur classical musicianship is one of my greatest pleasures.
Tales Out of School 2008
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Although we fought all of her pushy efforts to foist her old-fashioned, haute-bourgeois culture on us, I would have to say, 40 years later, that my amateur classical musicianship is one of my greatest pleasures.
Tales Out of School 2008
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And the musicianship is so ingrained that it's inseparable from the fact of her: she's not "being" a gospel singer, she's not "being" a blues guitarist, she's at the point where she's just being.
Ora labora Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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And the musicianship is so ingrained that it's inseparable from the fact of her: she's not "being" a gospel singer, she's not "being" a blues guitarist, she's at the point where she's just being.
Archive 2006-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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But that's part of the specialness of the place? the musicianship, which is of a supremely high level.
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However, his musicianship has been a model for many pianists in various genres.
Archive 2008-09-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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However, his musicianship has been a model for many pianists in various genres.
The Bill Evans Trio: “How Deep Is The Ocean?” (1965) Stephen Retherford 2008
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However, his musicianship has been a model for many pianists in various genres.
Archive 2008-10-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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However, his musicianship has been a model for many pianists in various genres.
Bill Evans: “Someday My Prince Will Come” (1965) Stephen Retherford 2008
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To call their musicianship inadequate really doesn't capture the existential void that album represented.
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