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Chamber music   /tʃˈeɪmbər mjˈuzɪk/   Listen
Chamber music

noun
1.
Serious music performed by a small group of musicians.






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"Chamber music" Quotes from Famous Books



... temptations of the music drama only to succumb to the symphonic poem—a new and vicious version of that old pitfall, the symphony; saw Cesar Franck, the Belgian mystic, narrowly graze the truth in some of his chamber music, and then fall victim to the fascinations of the word; as if the word, spoken or sung, were other than a clog to the free wings of imaginative music! Illowski noted the struggles of these dreamers, noted Verdi swallowed by the maelstrom of the theatre; noted Richard Strauss and his ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker

... Flute Overture for Orchestra and the little known but most characteristic Adagio in B minor for Pianoforte. Here again, as in the case of Haydn, we must regret that it is impracticable to give examples from the chamber music: the String Quartets, the Quintet in G minor or from the entrancing Clarinet Quintet. Any familiarity with Mozart's genius is very incomplete which does not comprise the C major Quartet, especially its heavenly Andante ...
— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding



Words linked to "Chamber music" :   classical music, serious music, classical



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