Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having, exhibiting, or illustrating the properties of good music, or the skill and taste of a good musician.

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  • adverb In the manner of a musician.

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Examples

  • On their last vocal album, 2004's To The Five Boroughs, they dropped all the musicianly stuff and made a simple, straight-ahead rap album that was their first to fall relatively flat.

    Tony Sachs: It Ain't Yo Gabba Gabba, But... A Daddy's Favorite Non-Kids' Records of 2011 Tony Sachs 2011

  • The hallway reeked of tobacco and marijuana, of musicianly sweat.

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  • When the saxophonist Donald Harrison started his long, last-slot set on Thursday afternoon, he and his band were wearing business suits and playing musicianly small-group jazz: tricky tunes in odd meters – I counted a section in 7/4 time – with the extended harmonies and dissonances of 1960s hard-bop.

    Jazzfest: Mardi Gras Indian Chants - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • When the saxophonist Donald Harrison started his long, last-slot set on Thursday afternoon, he and his band were wearing business suits and playing musicianly small-group jazz: tricky tunes in odd meters – I counted a section in 7/4 time – with the extended harmonies and dissonances of 1960s hard-bop.

    Jazzfest: Mardi Gras Indian Chants - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Combining musicianly flair (guitarist Andy Summers) with furious bursts of energy (drummer Stewart Copeland) and an unfailingly populist touch (Sting), they won over audiences from The Nashville in London's Cromwell Road to Shea Stadium.

    The Police Live! 1995

  • Luckily for Sting and his musicianly partners, punk was not the only music playing in fashionable rock circles in 1977.

    Message In A Box - The Complete Recordings 1993

  • No longer an 'apprentice,' swayed or, at least, influenced by the masters who had gone before him, he has here given us the first-fruits of his 'assistantship' in a work which expresses his own musicianly feelings, and in which we get our first glimpse of his true genius.

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

  • It is a work instinct with musicianly feeling, and its strength is borne out by the soundness and skill displayed in its construction.

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

  • But their manifestations of delight were far more pronounced when Felix, taking one of the airs which he had just played as a theme for extemporisation, exhibited in a most charming fashion, and with true musicianly feeling, the capacities of the subject for varied treatment.

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

  • From that moment all went well, and the opera was completed to the author's satisfaction, albeit Haydn, glad as he was to receive his reward, felt that he had little cause for self-congratulation at the results from a musicianly point of view.

    Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

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