serious music

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serious music - traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical tasteclassical, classical musicchamber music - serious music performed by a small group of musiciansopera - a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludescantata, oratorio - a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious textconcerto - a composition for orchestra and a soloistfugue - a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statementrondeau, rondo - a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonatasonata - a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting formsmusic genre, musical genre, musical style, genre - an expressive style of music