music rack
- noun
- /ˈmjuːzɪk ræk/
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atril
- During the performance, the musician placed her sheet music neatly on the music rack for easy access.
Examples
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The composer set his manuscript on the music rack before he began conducting the orchestra.
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Come on, get these music racks out of here.
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With her back to the audience, bending over to keep herself from spilling out, she stood up and hit her forehead against the music rack.
Fiction book (1995) -
Bachman Turner Overdrive? (looks through music rack)...
Fiction book (1991) -
A sonata had four separate parts called movements, the last of which recapitulated the first, and hers started with a chord in bass and treble. She could almost see the design on the page and gazed hard at the wooden filigree of the music rack.
Fiction book (1995) -
He adjusted the height of the music rack so that all the performers could see the notes clearly.
Synonyms
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1.2
A frame for holding or showing things
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1.6
A thing that holds sheet music so a musician can read it while playing
How Portable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'music rack' is directly interpretable as a rack (stand) for music: combining 'music' (sheet music/performance material) with 'rack' (a stand or frame) yields the described object. This follows a regular English noun–noun compounding pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Music rack is a simple name: a rack is a stand that holds the music sheets in front of a player. So, it means 'a stand that holds sheets of music'.