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- noun Archaic spelling of
music .
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Examples
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I. ii.149 (241,6) [is there any else longs to see this broken musick in his sides?] [W: set] If any change were necessary, I should write, _feel this broken musick_, for _see_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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The emptiness of the house took away our pleasure a great deal, though I liked it the better; for that I plainly discern the musick is the better, by how much the house the emptier.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Feb/Mar 1668/69 Pepys, Samuel 1669
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The emptiness of the house took away our pleasure a great deal, though I liked it the better; for that I plainly discern the musick is the better, by how much the house the emptier.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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The emptiness of the house took away our pleasure a great deal, though I liked it the better; for that I plainly discern the musick is the better, by how much the house the emptier.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1669 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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The emptiness of the house took away our pleasure a great deal, though I liked it the better; for that I plainly discern the musick is the better, by how much the house the emptier.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 72: February/March 1668-69 Samuel Pepys 1668
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The manner of setting of words and repeating them out of order, and that with a number of voices, makes me sick, the whole design of vocall musick being lost by it.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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The manner of setting of words and repeating them out of order, and that with a number of voices, makes me sick, the whole design of vocall musick being lost by it.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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The manner of setting of words and repeating them out of order, and that with a number of voices, makes me sick, the whole design of vocall musick being lost by it.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1667 Pepys, Samuel 1667
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In the June 20, 1757 edition of The New York Weekly Post Boy, John Beals, a teacher of "violin, oboe, German and common flute, and the dulcimer," advertised that, not only would he play "'musick' for balls and other entertainments," but would also work as "a maker of nets 'to keep the flys off horses.'" (p. 72)
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a number of voices, makes me sick, the whole design of vocall musick being lost by it.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 58: October 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668
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