musicalization
- noun
- /ˌmjuːzɪkəˈlaɪʒən/
- Specialized
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musicalización
- The theater company's latest production is a musicalization of the classic film, adding vibrant songs and dances.
Examples
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The musicalization of Shakespeare's plays has brought new life to his timeless stories.
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So to have iPod culture and the musicalization of public space, and technologies like Dolby, 10.1 surround sound, light digital cameras, and Avid editing systems.
Academic text (2017) -
As has been shown, the musicalization of Goldberg: Variations allows an aesthetically contained departure from traditional forms of storytelling, a departure that is motivated by a skeptical worldview and by nonrealist aesthetics.
Academic text (2003) -
Students created a musicalization of their favorite novel, transforming the plot into a captivating performance.
How Musical
Surface Forms
Morphology
musicalization = musicalize (transparent) = music + al + ize + ation
The noun is transparently formed from the verb 'musicalize' with the process suffix '-ation'.
Etymology
Musicalization starts with music, the word for sound arranged like a song, and it is built like familiar words such as musical and musician. It adds parts -ize and -ation, where -ize means 'make' and -ation means 'the act of', so musicalization is the process of 'making' something into music or adding music to it.