classical music
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classical music
In technical musical usage this means music composed during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, characterized by the development of the sonata by such composers as Mozart. In popular use, however, the term is used to mean any serious art music as distinct from jazz, pop, or folk.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() chamber music - serious music performed by a small group of musicians opera - a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes concerto - a composition for orchestra and a soloist fugue - a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement sonata - a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms |
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