salon music

noun

music of a simple, agreeable, frequently sentimental character, played usually by a small orchestra.

salon music

First recorded in 1910–15

It is as great a mistake to play only Beethoven's music as to play none of it, or to play either classical or salon music solely.

My daughters play the music of all the principal composers, and also the best salon music.

These waltzes are salon music of the most aristocratic kind.

From an adjoining salon music is heard and bursts of merriment.

The third is, like the preceding nocturne, exquisite salon music.

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