classical music

Cultural  

1. A loose expression for European and American music of the more serious kind, as opposed to popular or folk music.

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Example Sentences

These giant, caricatured figures danced and moved through the ceremony alongside dancers and performers, offering a surreal, almost carnival-like nod to classical music’s place in Italian culture.

From Salon

She was known for her versatility, blending jazz, opera, classical music and soul.

From BBC

Jenkins is the UK's best-selling classical music star, and a frequent performer for the Royal Family.

From BBC

Glass, 88, is seen as the greatest living US composer and perhaps the most influential in the post-World War II era, shattering long-held linear conceptions of classical music and enthusiastically incorporating non-Western forms.

From Barron's

“The German authorities at Auschwitz I”—the main camp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex—“had a good knowledge of classical music and incurred considerable costs to acquire musical instruments, scores and sheet music.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• chamber music