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Definition of Classical music

1. Noun. Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste.

Definition of Classical music

1. Noun. (music) Music of the classical period; the music of Mozart, Haydn, etc; the musical period before the romantic. ¹

2. Noun. (informal) The more serious forms of European and American music, as opposed to folk music, jazz or the many forms of popular music. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Literary usage of Classical music

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1859)
"classical music AND BRITISH MUSICAL TASTE. NOT many years ago an orchestral symphony or a stringed quartett were luxuries hardly to be indulged in by those ..."

2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1859)
"What is "Classical" Music? A friend asks us to define the term "Classical" in music. The term is variously and vaguely used. Doubtless it first grew into ..."

3. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... Nature and Effect of Music^Audiences of To-day—Sense of Rhythm—Appreciation of Tune—Contrast in Melody— Taste for classical music—Concert Reform—Music ..."

4. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1867)
"Bazzini is certainly no obscurantist [a term which Boccherini in another article applies to those who decry classical music]; his Quartet bears it written ..."

5. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1900)
"... only used in classical music, but now it is not so and a (liff'erent kind of music has been made for it, which is mostly used by the people. ..."

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