Tune vs Music - What's the difference?
tune | music |
A melody.
A song, or short musical composition.
(informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
(UK, slang) A very good song.
(obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
* John Locke
To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
* Dryden
To adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device (such as a radio or a car engine) so that it functions optimally.
To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
* Milton
To sing with melody or harmony.
* Milton
(South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.
A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time.
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An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using and sometimes singing
A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
To seduce or entice with music.
As nouns the difference between tune and music
is that tune is a melody while music is musician.As a verb tune
is to modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.tune
English
(wikipedia tune)Noun
(en noun)- Your engine needs a good tune .
- Your engine is now in tune .
- This piano is not in tune .
- You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? —Mate, that is a tune !
- the tune of your voices
- A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune , as when he is dragged unwillingly to [his task].
Derived terms
* change one's tune * in tune * out of tune * to the tune of * carry a tuneVerb
(tun)- to tune a piano or a violin
- Tune your harps.
- (Shakespeare)
- For now to sorrow must I tune my song.
- Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, / Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
- Are you tuning me?
Derived terms
* fine-tune * stay tuned * tune in * * tuner * tune out * tune upExternal links
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Alternative forms
* musick (archaic) * musicke (obsolete) * musique (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)Ian Sample
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Synonyms
* melody * vibeDerived terms
* background music * chamber music * chin music * concrete music * country music * elevator music * face the music * fill music * hillbilly music * incidental music * musical * musicality * musically * music box * music drama * music hall * musician, muso * musicing * musicless * music of the spheres * music to someone's ears * musicologist * musicology * pop music * program music * set to music * sheet music * soul music * world musicSee also
* *MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia*