Collocations for music - noun

beautiful, good, great, wonderful | loud | quiet, soft, sweet
The soft background music made her feel sleepy.

heavy
Heavy music thundered from the basement.

light | serious | tonal | atonal, twelve-note | contrapuntal, polyphonic | original | live | recorded, taped | background | piped | band, choral, instrumental, orchestral, symphonic | guitar, keyboard, organ, piano, vocal, etc. | chamber | church, liturgical, religious, sacred | secular | ballet, film, incidental, theme
the incidental music for a radio play

computer, electronic | Western | traditional | period
Appropriate period music can be played on visits to a historic building.

experimental | avant-garde, Baroque, classical, contemporary, early, medieval, modern | black, calypso, country, dance, disco, ethnic, folk, gospel, indie, jazz, pop/popular, rap, rave, reggae, rock, soul, underground, world

piece | bar, line

listen to
Listening to music is a great way to relax.

hear
She could hear music coming from the upstairs flat.

make, perform, play
We love to make music as a family.

play, put on
Put some music on, would you? (= play a CD/cassette)

turn down/up
Could you turn that music down?

compose, write | arrange | put/set sth to
Schubert set several poems by Goethe to music.

create, produce
With the guidance of the conductor, an orchestra creates music and harmonies. | The city has produced a lot of good music.

provide
a beach party with music provided by a local band

broadcast | record | be into, enjoy, like, love
She''s really into rock music.

get into
He got into music (= became involved in the music business) by chance.

play
Calypso music played faintly in the distance.

blare, thunder
disco music blaring out of the open windows of a car

come, drift
The music was coming from next door.

business, industry | scene
Birmingham''s live music scene

world
She is a rising star in the music world.

press
The album has been praised in the music press.

charts
The band are number one in the music charts.

festival | appreciation | fan, lover | critic, director, teacher
the choir''s music director

group | centre
We bought a new television and music centre at the weekend.

video | room

to (the) ~
to dance to themusic

in time to (the) music
They did their exercises in time to the music.

music and song
an evening of Scottish music and song

the sound of music
The sound of pop music drifted through the open window.

a style of music, taste in music
Her taste in music was wide.

words and music
He made up the words and music for the song.

printed, sheet

bar, line, sheet

read
Can you read music?

score | stand
Put your music on the music stand.

publisher, publishing

~ for
music for piano, cello and voice

play/sing, etc. with/without (the) music