classical music

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

Example Sentences

For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.

From The Daily Beast

Since filming the show, however, her relationship with classical music has obviously changed.

From The Daily Beast

So she was an aficionado of classical music, for soundtracks or otherwise?

From The Daily Beast

And it goes beyond getting my teeth drilled at the dentist office—my dentist really likes classical music.

From The Daily Beast

But contemporary classical music has changed, and the field is now spawning many appealing and genre-bending works.

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In our mess-room, likewise, we enlivened the time with classical music, without which life on a U-Boat would not bear thinking of.

From Project Gutenberg

A deaf old gentleman approvingly remarks that this is really classical music.

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In those days Ireland was truly one with England, in appreciation of high classical music.

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Ashton Howard says the same people who like classical music buy old china and wear false hair.

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So we thought we would rest ourselves by playing something slow and really classical—for all classical music is slow, you know.

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Related Words

• chamber music