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
TWA is one such semiclassical approach that dates back to the 1970s, but is limited to isolated, idealized quantum systems where no energy is gained or lost.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
Her accompanist Mark Markham supplied lush, rippling, semiclassical pianism that forsook strong rhythmic underpinnings to let her determine the tempos, which were almost invariably slow.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2015
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 Baluyut, Violeta D.
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