Definition of Classical Music in English :

Define Classical Music in English

Classical Music meaning in English

Meaning of Classical Music in English

Pronunciation of Classical Music in English

Classical Music pronunciation in English

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Classical Music

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Noun

1. classical, classical music, serious music

traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste

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Classical Music

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noun music
1. 
a style of music composed, esp at Vienna, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This period is marked by the establishment, esp by Haydn and Mozart, of sonata form
A hospital in Montreal used classical music successfully as a painkiller.
2. 
any style of music based on long-established principles of composition and polyphony and marked by stability of form, intellectualism, and restraint
her favourite piece of classical music: Prokofiev's Cinderella Suite

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