Musicality

Musicality (music-al-ity) is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousness and harmoniousness. These definitions are somewhat hampered by the difficulty of defining music, but, colloquially, "music" is often contrasted with noise and randomness. A person considered musical has the ability to perceive and reproduce differences in aspects of music including pitch, rhythm and harmony (see: ear training). Two types of musicality may be differentiated: to be able to perceive music (musical receptivity) and to be able to reproduce music as well as creating music (musical creativity).

Dance

In dance, musicality is the matching of movement and form to the rhythm, melody, and mood of the music being played.

Dancers may demonstrate musicality in a variety of ways. For example, dancers may synchronize (or syncopate, as in tap dance) movements with music beats, vary the magnitude or speed of movements with music volume, employ expressive movements that are influenced by melody, variations of rhythm, and mood, or combinations of these.

Musicality (album)

Musicality is the third solo album from English actress-singer Martine McCutcheon. The album features covers of songs from McCutcheon's favourite musicals, including Mamma Mia! and Les Misérables. Released in December 2002, Musicality was a commercial failure. The album debuted and peaked at #55 on the UK Albums Chart, spending just two weeks in the Top 100. It is McCutcheon's lowest-charting and lowest-selling album to date.

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