MUSICAL ORGANISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musical organisation mean? 

• MUSICAL ORGANISATION (noun)
  The noun MUSICAL ORGANISATION has 1 sense:

1. an organization of musicians who perform together

  Familiarity information: MUSICAL ORGANISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSICAL ORGANISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organization of musicians who perform together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

musical group; musical organisation; musical organization

Hypernyms ("musical organisation" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Meronyms (members of "musical organisation"):

instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical organisation"):

chorus (a group of people assembled to sing together)

ensemble (a group of musicians playing or singing together)

section (a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class)

duet; duette; duo (two performers or singers who perform together)

trio (three performers or singers who perform together)

quartet; quartette (four performers or singers who perform together)

quintet; quintette (five performers or singers who perform together)

sestet; sextet; sextette (six performers or singers who perform together)

septet; septette (seven performers or singers who perform together)

octet; octette (eight performers or singers who perform together)

orchestra (a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players)

band (instrumentalists not including string players)

band; dance band; dance orchestra (a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing)