Sentence examples for mere music from inspiring English sources

But this was, despite the stream of jokes, more than mere music hall.

Crosley's designers targeted vinyl as a retro trend and made its turntables objects, rather than mere music players.

But the real order of business transcended mere music making, although that, of course, is the ultimate purpose of Young Concert Artists.

His hope is that Rock Band could evolve from a mere music game into a broader online platform for music distribution.

By age 17, Wyclef wore multiple musical hats — in church bands, the school jazz and choir bands, and a rap group — but hip-hop was more than mere music.

Time was when Salzburg was a kind of soft-option Athens to which "mere" music and drama lovers (or simply fat mainly German cats seeking a spot of Kultur) would flee south with relief after the rigours of Spartan Bayreuth.

I say this as a complete amateur, a mere music-lover.

It's a shame the Nighthawks' brand of hot, 1920's jazz can be labeled mere "novelty" music or criticized as lightweight dance music.

However, two M-nus artists playing London this week should show that it's more than mere 6am music.

It's never so showy that it distracts from Tempest's voice – it doesn't really do choruses – but equally, it's never mere background music.

Though Britten was rather sniffy about it being mere "stage" music, its influence hovers over his own first stage attempt, with WH Auden, in the operetta Paul Bunyan (1941).