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SERIOUS 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 taste
Synonyms:
classical; classical music; serious music
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("serious 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 "serious 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)
