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Face the Music	To confront the consequences of ones decisions and actions, or to accept the responsibility of one’s actions	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
make beautiful music together	To have a great romantic relationship with each other.	Rate it: (4.00 / 6 votes)
face the music	To accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one's actions.	Rate it: (3.25 / 4 votes)
chin music	Idle chatter	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
music hall	vaudeville	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
music to one's ear	Some unexpected good news; a favorable outcome after some initial confusion or delay.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
music to someone's ears	Some good news; a spoken expression or a sound which is pleasing; a welcome remark or information.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
what kind of music do you like	what kind of music do you like?	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pickin' and grinnin'	a country way of saying "playing music"	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
shuffle	A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
slave to the rhythm	Being compelled to enjoy music or dance.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
eyes closed all ears	to listen to high fidelity music in the fullest sense	Rate it: (4.33 / 3 votes)
tin ear	Insensitivity to and inability to appreciate the elements of performed music or the rhythm, elegance, or nuances of language.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
strike up	To start something, usually playing live music.	Rate it: (3.00 / 3 votes)
put on	To play recorded music.	Rate it: (2.00 / 3 votes)
modos facere	to compose, put to music.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
a mal tiempo buena cara	face the music	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
artem musicam discere, tractare	to learn, study music.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
blue note	Notes added to the major scale for expressive quality in jazz and blues music, particularly the flatted third, fifth and seventh.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cake walk	From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number that number wins a cake.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cakewalk	The style of music associated with such a contest.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
carry a tune	To produce music, especially to sing, with accurate pitch.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
chalkface	A musical concept or genre in which music is completely improvised and never played twice. Most often mixing elements of hip-hop, metal, punk and avant-garde jazz.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cry the blues	To sing in the style of blues music.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
d.c. al coda	A music notation roughly meaning "go back to the beginning, playing everything again up to the coda."	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
faire école	To found (or, to be a leader of) a school of art, literature, music, &c.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
jam session	An ad-hoc meeting where whoever shows up joins the group to play music.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
keep time	To control the beat or rhythm of a song played by a music group	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
liven things up	Appropriate actions, music, decorations, singing, props, verbal directing, recitations can assist to liven things up at a party or celebration.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
make someone's ears sad	To displease the ears of someone; to cause someone to hear music or sounds that are not to their liking.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
middle of the road	Of a type of melodic popular music that has wide appeal.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
música para os ouvidos de	music to ears	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
nervorum et tibiarum cantus	instrumental music.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
opera house	music venue	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
payer les pots cassés	To stand the racket; To pay the damage; To face the music.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pickin' and grinnin'	Vigorous playing of folk or country music on a stringed musical instrument, especially the guitar or banjo, while smiling broadly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
play out	To play music to accompany the end of, or as a final segment in.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
power chord	A chord or combination of notes used in rock music and typically selected to sound good at high volume and high levels of distortion. Power chords make extensive use of intervals such as open fourths and fifths.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rhythm and blues	Type of music	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rock on	To party to rock music.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rock out	To party to rock music.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
scream	A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough, distorted version of the voice; rather than the normal voice of the singer.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sing soprano	To perform vocal music in a higher pitch than alto.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vibe out	To lose oneself in music.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vocum et fidium (nervorum) cantus	vocal and instrumental music.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)