Definition of Serious music

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Serious Music

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serious music (current term)
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Literary usage of Serious music

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

1. London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto: (later Known as by Bernard Shaw (1917)
"My good sirs: do you think that di Bassetto regards this sort of thing as serious music? 20 April 1889 I REGARD with immense approval the formation of a ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"First brilliantly successful as a composer in the light genre (jazz, lyrics, musical comedies, films), he later tried to apply his talents to serious music. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"And quite suddenly, within the space of less than a generation, the rhythmic impulse of this choral dance music passed into serious music, and transformed ..."

4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"It is fiddle-music par excellence, and if introduced into serious music with such judgment and discretion as in Joachim's Hungarian Concerto and ..."

5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1867)
"Rossini is less successful in his more serious music. ... or forget the libretto, onr enjoyment will be unalloyed Even his serious music is far from being ..."

6. Dwight's Journal of Music by John Sullivan Dwight (1867)
"... and if we can hut ignore or forget the libretto, onr enjoyment will bu unalloyed Even his serious music is far from being wholly inappropriate. ..."

7. Half a Century of Music in England, 1837-1887: Essays Towards a History by Francis Hueffer (1889)
"... serious music and like the stage, but they do not care for serious music on the stage. This is a confession which the ..."

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