| NOUN | communication | classical music, classical, serious music | traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste |
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| Meaning | Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste. | |
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| Synonyms | classical, serious music | |
| Narrower | cantata, oratorio | A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text |
| chamber music | serious music performed by a small group of musicians | |
| concerto | A composition for orchestra and a soloist | |
| fugue | A musical form consisting of a theme repeated / repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement | |
| opera | A drama set to music | |
| rondo, rondeau | A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata | |
| sonata | A musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms | |
| Broader | music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style | An expressive style of music |
| Spanish | clásico, música clásica | |
| Catalan | música clàssica | |
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