semiclassical
Americanadjective
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of or relating to music by classical composers that is familiar or appealing to the general public.
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of or relating to music intermediate in style between classical and popular music.
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Instead, physicists often turn to what's known as semiclassical physics -- a middle-ground approach that keeps just enough quantum behavior to stay accurate, while discarding details that have little effect on the outcome.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
These are systems that can't be solved with a semiclassical approach.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
And then there was “People Like You,” by Mr. Anderson: a ballad with a rock backbeat and a semiclassical chord progression.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2010
Bach to Klezmer, including the premiers of Yankelev’s arrangement of “My Yiddishe Mama” and baritone Shouvik Mondle’s rendition of traditional Hindu semiclassical music.
From Washington Post
In the scientific and classical divisions, natural history and drawing were also given, and Latin and Greek were presented in the classical and semiclassical gymnasiums.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut
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