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light music

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noun

  1. music for popular entertainment

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Vivid Sydney started in 2009 and bills itself as the "Southern Hemisphere's largest festival of light, music, ideas and food" and features a free 6.5km walk with 43 light installations.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

The curator has even chosen to pipe in light music, as if ghosts from the last days of the Romanovs were still among us.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence we Americans just celebrated with spectacular displays of exploding color and light, music, shared food and fellowship, called this truth self-evident, that all men are created equal.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2019

Scott called the film “a disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at American reality and a poem written in light, music and vivid human faces.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2016

She spoke with her hands, entertaining her two youngest children with fluid movements of such consummate grace that it seemed as though light music should be filtering from somewhere in the dizzying late afternoon heat.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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