Musiikillisia

Musiikillisia is a Finnish-language term used in musicology and literary criticism to refer to the musical aspects of a work. Grammatically, it is the partitive plural form of the adjective musiikillinen and typically functions as a modifier for nouns such as vivahteita (nuances), piirteitä (features), or elementtejä (elements).

In scholarly writing, musiikillisia describes attributes like melody, rhythm, timbre, harmony, texture, and performance style, allowing analysts to discuss music's function in a piece without passing value judgments.

Etymology and usage: The word derives from musiikki (music) and the suffix -llinen, which forms adjectives; the additional inflection to -isia indicates plural partitive used with certain nouns. It appears widely in Finnish-language musicology, criticism, and ethnomusicology.

See also: musiikki; musiikillisuus; musiikillinen.