classical music

Word Origin & History

classical music
1836, defined originally against romantic music; later contrasted to jazz (in this sense more often with ref. to the orchestras than to the music itself). Later in contrast to popular music generally.
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classical music definition


A loose expression for European and American music of the more serious kind, as opposed to popular or folk music.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Classical music is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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