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    CLASSICAL MUSIC

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical tasteplay

    Synonyms:

    classical; classical music; serious music

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("classical music" is a kind of...):

    genre; music genre; musical genre; musical style (an expressive style of music)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "classical music"):

    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)

    cantata; oratorio (a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text)

    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)

    rondeau; rondo (a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata)

    sonata (a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms)

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