serious music

Noun
  1. Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste (synset 107039369)
    is a type of: genre, music genre, musical genre, musical style - an expressive style of music
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: classical, classical music

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