Home › Words › M › musicalizationmusicalizationmusicalization means the act of musicalizing.EtymologyFrom musical + -ization.nounThe act of musicalizing.e.g.“Scapin, Rusty Magee's musicalization of Moliere's 1670 Les Fourberies de Scapin, is an adaptation true to its source: this slight farce becomes an even slighter musical.” — 1991 December 20, Lawrence Bommer, “Scapin”, in Chicago Reader:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).