Instrumental music having an intellectual and affective content, which depends solely on its rhythmic, melodic, and contrapuntal structure.

Music created with a focus on structure as opposed to title, text, or program; absolute music.

Muscle tissue that appears striped under the microscope as a result of the myofibrils being organized into regular units (sarcomeres).

A mussel of the genus Lithophaga, medium-sized marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.

A group of musicians who regularly perform together.

plural of music group

(often in the plural) Any of a group of four muscles that form the abdominal wall.

(anatomy) the cremaster muscle.

(anatomy) Rectus lateralis muscle of the eye; muscle that moves the eye away from the center of the face.

(music) Background music originally played by live performers.