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 music, classical |
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Narrower | cantata, oratorio | A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text |
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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 |
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Spanish | clásico, música clásica |
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Catalan | música clàssica |
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