chamber music

Noun

Meaning

serious music performed by a small group of musicians

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sonata nocturne music aleatory sonatina classical music program music sonata form

Hypernyms

classical classical music serious music

Examples

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. Neville Marriner

Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand. George Steiner

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music. Amos Oz

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner. Colm Tóibín

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. Christo

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece. Peter Maxwell Davies

Close letter words and terms

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