MUSICAL PERCEPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musical perception mean? 

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

1. the auditory perception of musical sounds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSICAL PERCEPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The auditory perception of musical sounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

auditory perception; sound perception (the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon)

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

melody; tonal pattern (the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes)