2. Noun. (music) A semiclassical work ¹
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Definition of Semiclassic
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semiclassic
Literary usage of Semiclassic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Gothic still remained a dominant influence ; the windows were no longer pointed,
but they were divided with mullions and transom, and, if semiclassic in the ..."
2. American Painting and Its Tradition: As Represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin by John Charles Van Dyke (1919)
"... in Rome lie produced some semiclassic landscapes, but he gave them up, too.
Not so with the Fontainebleau-Barbizon landscape. Rousseau and his band had ..."
3. Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country by William Holden Hutton (1914)
"... being of the early period in this country of the introduction of the renaissance
school, and intermixture of Gothic with semiclassic design, ..."
4. Architectural Composition: An Attempt to Order and Phrase Ideas which by John Beverley Robinson (1908)
"Of the former error the west front of Westminster Abbey is a notable instance,
in which the classic proclivities of Wren induced him to build semiclassic ..."
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