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absolute music
noun
- instrumental music, as a concerto or string quartet, that draws no inspiration from or makes no reference to a text, program, visual image, or title and that exists solely in terms of its musical form, structure, and elements.
absolute music
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Word History and Origins
Origin of absolute music1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
The good wife breathed deeply, and went on with her work, sending out absolute music from her needles.
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Therefore, discarding critical crutches, it is best to hear the composition primarily as absolute music.
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In other words—not Wagner's—dance approaches speech from one side just as absolute music does from the other.
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For that they praised him, as if it were a sine qua non of absolute music that it should be in the sonata form.
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The tendency of composers of absolute music at present is to make less and less use of the strict classic forms.
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