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the above transcription of music is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.
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An example use of music in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… yeah let's put some music on there you …”
Music is the art of combining sounds in time, typically to create beauty of form, emotion, or ideas.
the word music occurs in english on average 283.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that music can be often used in the following areas:
1) leisure and entertainment;