The word "vivify" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean "give life to; invigorate" or "to make something more lively or interesting". For example: "The talented chef was able to vivify the dull dish with fresh herbs and zesty spices."
To vivify music in words is not easy.
Photographs, letters, manuscripts, and two comic films (by the late Rudy Burckhardt) vivify the charmed circle, for which Freilicher set a tone of ineffable wit, a sugar-free sweetness that made high sophistication seem a snap.
Thin washes of color are laid on like glazes, accreting into blocks, bands, and stripes; dry pigments vivify what might otherwise be unremarkable patterns.
Portraits by itinerant artists vivify a genre that was scuttled by the invention of photography.
His delicate pen-and-ink drawings vivify nightmares — a rocking-horse guillotine slices up little men, a tiger-faced snake slithers through a wasteland, maidens are molested by an ape and a giant squid.
Critical quotations, pro and con, pepper the show's superb installation by the curator David Davies; they vivify the warring opinions provoked by El Greco in his lifetime and ever since, except for a spell of near-oblivion that ended in the nineteenth century, when, like Vermeer, he was rescued by French aesthetes.
Yet, in the meantime, the author is looking for the identity of modern Germany, and vivifying his generation's continuing difficulty in arriving at the truth about the second world war whatever truth is, as Prince Charles once asked about love.Like Mr Schlink himself, the book's narrator, Peter Debauer, is half-German and half-Swiss, born during the war.
It unites divine love with the laws of one's country, prompts people to pray for their homeland, and vivifies the body politic.
At this time they were living together or, hard to say, dying, possibly from a mystery condition which fuelled and quite vivified their blunt if obsessively honed and devotedly mutual hatred and hissing contempt: classic case of the weapon lying down with the wound?
He was an originator of what came to be called the Danube school, a painting movement influenced by humanist intellectuals, which vivified religious motifs with realistic landscape settings and raking light.
Their story was vivified by Calvin Tomkins in his 1962 New Yorker Profile and later book, "Living Well Is the Best Revenge," and by Amanda Vaill in her 1998 biography, "Everybody Was So Young".
