New Age music

British  

noun

1. a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments

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Example Sentences

For those used to the dreamy New Age music that populates so many Cirque shows, the addition of Bates may come as a surprise.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2019

The arrangement, influenced by New Age music, came out of early Turtle Island recordings on the independent, instrumental acoustic label Windham Hill.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2018

I had zero interest in the clinical setting, picturing a windowless room with incense and New Age music setting the “mood,” while being observed, presumably, through a two-way mirror.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2017

Still, the renewal of interest in New Age music is surprising.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017

Good music only deepens my connection to the practice in a way that unending cycles of Kirtan chants, predictable New Age music and conventional Indian tunes do not.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2011