piece of music

1. 1.

   a musical work that has been created

   “the composition is written in four movements”

   Synonymsmusical compositionopuscompositionpiece

   Broadermusic

   Narrowermorceausheet musicmusical arrangementrealizationintermezzoallegroallegrettoandanteintroitsolo

   Partsfinale

Questions about piece of music

What does piece of music mean?

piece of music means "a musical work that has been created".

What is another word for piece of music?

Close synonyms include musical composition, opus, composition, piece. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is piece of music a common word?

piece of music is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.