CLASSICAL MUSIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does classical music mean? 

• CLASSICAL MUSIC (noun)
  The noun CLASSICAL MUSIC has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CLASSICAL MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASSICAL MUSIC (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

classical; classical music; serious music

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)