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classical music

noun as in serious music

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For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.

Since filming the show, however, her relationship with classical music has obviously changed.

So she was an aficionado of classical music, for soundtracks or otherwise?

And it goes beyond getting my teeth drilled at the dentist office—my dentist really likes classical music.

But contemporary classical music has changed, and the field is now spawning many appealing and genre-bending works.

In our mess-room, likewise, we enlivened the time with classical music, without which life on a U-Boat would not bear thinking of.

A deaf old gentleman approvingly remarks that this is really classical music.

In those days Ireland was truly one with England, in appreciation of high classical music.

Ashton Howard says the same people who like classical music buy old china and wear false hair.

So we thought we would rest ourselves by playing something slow and really classical—for all classical music is slow, you know.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to classical music, such as: chamber music, art music, classic, concert music, longhair music, and operatic music.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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