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classical 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans or their civilization, esp in the period of their ascendancy 2. designating, following, or influenced by the art or culture of ancient Greece or Rome 3. Music a. of, relating to, or denoting any music or its period of composition marked by stability of form, intellectualism, and restraint b. denoting serious art music in general 4. Music of or relating to a style of music composed, esp at Vienna, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This period is marked by the establishment, esp by Haydn and Mozart, of sonata form 5. (of an education) based on the humanities and the study of Latin and Greek 6. Physics a. not involving the quantum theory or the theory of relativity b. obeying the laws of Newtonian mechanics or 19th-century physics 7. (of a logical or mathematical system) according with the law of excluded middle, so that every statement is known to be either true or false even if it is not known which www.wilhelm-aerospace.org/Architecture/classical www.le.ac.uk/ur/urarch5.html www.classicalmus.hispeed.com/classical.html How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The presence of Lady Wetherby acted as a temporary check on the development of the situation, but after they had been seated at their table a short time the lights of the restaurant were suddenly lowered, a coloured limelight became manifest near the roof, and classical music made itself heard from the fiddles in the orchestra. The Classical style has well been called sculpturesque, the Romantic picturesque. , the death that comes from no other hand than one's own, he was desirous of elevating it to the position it held in classical antiquity (see Aphorism |
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