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light music

British  

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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More recently, the Opera House has been the centrepiece of Vivid Sydney - an annual festival of light, music ideas and artistic expression.

From BBC Oct. 19, 2023

With the BBC Philharmonic, he has recorded a third volume of orchestral works by Eric Coates, a prolific composer of light music.

From New York Times Aug. 3, 2023

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

He is shown with Kofi Annan – a reference to Bolton’s work as the US ambassador to the United Nations – along with upbeat, light, music.

From The Guardian Mar. 23, 2018

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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