serious music
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Meaning
traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
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That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.
Dunhill 1928, p. 13 Sir Henry Wood continued to perform Sullivan's serious music.
Ruth-Esther Hillila, and Barbara Blanchard, Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland (1997) In 1790 music lovers founded the Åbo Musical Society; it gave the first major stimulus to serious music by Finnish composers.
The work of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, founded in 1977, books about Sullivan by musicians such as Young (1971) and Jacobs (1986), and a growing number of recordings have contributed to the re-evaluation of Sullivan's serious music.