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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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| Andsnes, midway through a two-week, nine-concert residency with the Philharmonic, lately has reclaimed this war horse as serious music, its popularity and easy appeal having compromised it in the minds of some. This happy democratic period ended, Preston tells us, with the arrival of a musical elite which epitomized the serious music of the German Romantics. Surprisingly, the ensuing brouhaha is given relatively little play in the film, a directorial decision Jones chalks up to his desire to "make a good film that's entertaining, not some serious music industry diatribe. |
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