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Classical music   /klˈæsɪkəl mjˈuzɪk/   Listen
Classical music

noun
1.
Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste.  Synonyms: classical, serious music.






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"Classical music" Quotes from Famous Books



... opposite the house of the Marchese Fabio Pallavicini, formerly Sardinian minister at Munich. We spent most of our evenings very pleasantly at their house. We attended the concerts at the Odeon of classical music: the execution was perfect, but the music was so refined and profound that it passed my comprehension, and I thought it tedious. The hours at Munich were so early that the opera ended almost at the time it ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville

... musicians were never still a moment. They played mostly syncopated airs of the United States, popular at the time. All primitive people, or those less advanced in civilization or education, prefer the rag-time variants of the American negro or his imitators, to so-called good or classical music. It is like simple language, easily understood, and makes a direct appeal to their ears and their passions. It is the slang or argot of music, hot off the griddle for the average man's taste, without complexities or ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... in my throat, which I had to swallow before I could tell Hilary that I loved old ballads and such things better than what they call classical music, much of which seems to me like running up and down without any aim or tune to it—and she was giving me a tap with ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt



Words linked to "Classical music" :   rondo, genre, chamber music, fugue, sonata, concerto, musical style, musical genre, rondeau, cantata, music genre, oratorio, opera



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