Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Musical

Musical as brooks that run o’er yellow shallows in the sun.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Musical as rain drops on a roof.
—Anonymous

Musical as a stream in Bunyan’s delectable Mountains.
—Anonymous

Voices musical as birds or brooks.
—Aubrey De Vere

Musically as the pine cone to the breeze.
—George Gilfillan

Musical as the holes of a flute without the flute.
—O. Henry

Bells, as musical
As those that, on the golden-shafted trees
Of Eden, shake in the eternal breeze.
—Thomas Moore

Sweet and musical as bright Apollo’s lute strung with his hair.
—William Shakespeare