classical music

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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classical music - traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical tasteclassical, serious musicchamber music - serious music performed by a small group of musiciansopera - a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludescantata, oratorio - a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious textconcerto - a composition for orchestra and a soloistfugue - a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statementrondeau, rondo - a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonatasonata - a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting formsmusic genre, musical genre, musical style, genre - an expressive style of music

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musica classicaклассическая музыка