musical vs soothing

musical

adj
  • Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious. 

  • Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music. 

  • Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation. 

  • Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions. 

noun
  • A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale. 

  • A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting. 

soothing

adj
  • Tending to soothe. 

  • Giving relief. 

  • Freeing from fear or anxiety. 

noun
  • The act by which somebody is soothed. 

How often have the words musical and soothing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )