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Of or pertaining to music having the qualities of music or the power of producing music devoted to music melodious harmonious as musical proportion a musical voice musical instruments a musical sentence musical persons...
Music
Music. For the purposes of the Copyright Act, 1911, 'copyright' includes in the case of a musical work the right to make any record, perforated roll or other contrivance by means of which the workmay be mechanically performed [s. 1(2)(d)], see Performing Right Society Ltd. v. Hammond's Bradford Brewery Co. Ltd., 1934 Ch 121 (reproduction by radio receiving set and loud-speaker); and see also s. 19 of the Act, and as to posthumous works, s. 17. Copyright is now confined to such rights as are given by statute, the common law rights being abrogated (s. 31).The (English) Musical Summary Proceedings (Copyright) Act, 1902, and the (English) Musical Copyright Act,1906, amended by the (English) Copyright Act, 1911, give additional protection to the owners of musical copyright against unauthorized sales, a defect in the Act of 1902 having been discovered in Ex parte Francis, (1903) 1 KB 275; the Act of 1906 empowers constables to arrest, without warrant, sellers of music notified to the chief o...
Music and dancing licences
Music and dancing licences.--The grant of these in London and Westminster and within twenty miles thereof, including the administrative county of (English) Middlesex (Music and Dancing Licences (Middlesex) Act, 1894), is regulated by the (Eng-lish) Public Entertainment Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), which enacted that any house kept for public dancing, music, or other public entertainment of the like kind, without a licence from justices, is to be deemed a disorderly house; see (English) Home Counties (Music and Dancing) Licensing Act, 1926 (16 & 17Geo. 5, c. 31); and by s. 3 of the Local Government Act, 1888, which transferred the licensing powers from justices to the London County Council. For Sunday entertainments, see (English) Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51).Various local Act in large towns (see Geary on the Law of Public Entertainments) regulate music-halls, etc., somewhat similarly; and the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, substitutes the county counc...
Music drama
An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias duets etc the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness musical drama of this character in general It involves the use of a kind of melodious declamation the development of leitmotif great orchestral elaboration and a fusion of poetry music action and scene into an organic whole The term is applied esp to the later works of Wagner ldquoTristan und Isolderdquo ldquoDie Meistersingerrdquo ldquoRheingoldrdquo ldquoWalkuumlrerdquo ldquoSiegfriedrdquo ldquoGoumltterdaumlmmerungrdquo and ldquoParsifalrdquo...
Musical work
Musical work, means a work consisting of music and includes any graphical notation of such work but does not include any words or any action intended to be sung, spoken or performed with the music. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (p)]...
Music
The science and the art of tones or musical sounds i e sounds of higher or lower pitch begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations as of a string at various degrees of tension the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony or the properties dependences and relations of tones to each other the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear...
Musically
In a musical manner...
Musicalness
The quality of being musical...
Music hall
A place for public musical entertainments specif Eng esp a public hall for vaudeville performances in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium...
Copyright
Copyright, an incorporeal right, being the exclusive privilege of printing, reprinting, selling, and publishing is own original work which the statute law first gave to an author in 1709, by 8 Anne, c. 19, for the term of fourteen years. Whether the right exited at Common Law is a long-vexed and still undetermined question. See Jeffries v. Boosey, (1854) 4 HLC 815. There is no copyright in an illegal or immoral publication, Southey v. Sherwood, (1817) 2 Mer 435; Stockdale v. Onwhyn, (1826) 5 B&C 173.The law of copyright now depends mainly on the (English) Copyright Act,1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46) (July 1, 1912), and 'no person shall be entitled to copyright or any similar right in any literary dramatic, musical, or artistic work, whether published or unpublished, otherwise than under and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or of any other statutory enactment for the time being in force' (s. 31).By sub-s. 2 of s. 1 of this Act 'copyright' is thus defined:--For the purposes of ...
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