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music paper

music paper

1 3.0
Paper with lines for writing music notes
  • noun
translation icon : papel de música
  • She organized her music paper into folders, separating different pieces by composer.

Examples

  • I would show them the music paper, the staff, the measure lines.

    Academic text (1994)
  • There were days I knew he went without food to buy music paper.

  • He used to buy music paper in large and small amounts, according to his finances.

  • A young girl who used to work at Sardou's, a stationary shop where I bought music paper.

  • The next layer is a sheet of music paper that has been sprayed with ink through an A4 stencil.

    Blog text (31)
  • He would cut up music paper, write phrases and impulses, scatter them, let me choose which pieces to play, and then create the piece we'd put together on paper.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • He carefully wrote the notes on the music paper to compose his new song.

  • The teacher handed out music paper for the students to practice their compositions.

Synonyms

score paper
vsmusic paper
  • Specialized
5.6

Paper that has printed lines for writing music notes

has identical meaning but uses an alternative name for the same sheets
scorepad
vsmusic paper
  • Specialized
4.2

A notebook with blank music lines for writing notes

is the same concept but refers to loose printed pages rather than a notebook

How Precise

graph paper
3 2.0
music paper
1 3.0
manifold paper
  • Archaic
8.1
waste paper
1 1.1

Surface Forms

music paper singular
music papers plural

Morphology

music + paper

This is a straightforward noun–noun compound where 'music' modifies 'paper' to indicate paper used for music notation; a B1 learner who knows 'music' and 'paper' can infer this meaning. The compositional pattern (thing-for-purpose) is common cross-linguistically and follows typical English compound formation, so the sense is immediately comprehensible.

Etymology

Music paper is paper printed with lines for writing music notes. The name comes from the simple picture of paper already made for music, so it is ready when you want to 'write' a melody.