SHEET MUSIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheet music mean? 

• SHEET MUSIC (noun)
  The noun SHEET MUSIC has 1 sense:

1. a musical composition in printed or written form

  Familiarity information: SHEET MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEET MUSIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A musical composition in printed or written form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

she turned the pages of the music as he played

Hypernyms ("sheet music" is a kind of...):

composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sheet music"):

lead sheet (a sheet containing the words and melody for a song (and some indication of harmony) written in simple form)

piano music (sheet music to be played on a piano)

musical score; score (a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages)