HyperDic: serious_music

English > 1 sense of the expression serious music:
NOUNcommunicationserious music, classical music, classicaltraditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
English > serious music: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningTraditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste.
Synonymsclassical music, classical
Narrowercantata, oratorioA musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
chamber musicserious music performed by a small group of musicians
concertoA composition for orchestra and a soloist
fugueA musical form consisting of a theme repeated / repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
operaA drama set to music
rondo, rondeauA musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
sonataA musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
Broadermusic genre, musical genre, genre, musical styleAn expressive style of music
Spanishclásico, música clásica
Catalanmúsica clàssica

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