We found 2 definitions of serious music from 2 different sources.
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serious music - traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste | ||
classical music, classical | ||
music genre, musical genre, musical style, genre an expressive style of music | ||
chamber music serious music performed by a small group of musicians | ||
opera a building where musical dramas are performed | ||
cantata, oratorio a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text | ||
concerto a composition for orchestra and a soloist | ||
fugue a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement | ||
rondo, rondeau a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata |