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Meanings of serious music in English

Portuguese
música erudita
Catalan
música clàssica

A traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste.

música erudita
Usage of serious music in English
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But when it comes to serious music, give us a bloke every time.
The Irish Times
2
Would there still be serious music, could younger people be persuaded to listen?
BBC
3
But in serious music such attempts are merely warnings against any imitation of nature.
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
4
How would Leipsic behave towards this new and serious music?
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
5
Where was the next generation of serious music listeners?
BBC
6
Soft, serious music (Buddha's "Hymn of Victory") is heard.
The Buddha: A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes
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Moore said of the list: This seems to be a vanguard time for serious music journalism as printed word.
The Guardian
8
Bill Yates 8' 50 YC stations allow much more flexible programming of serious music.
Radio NZ
9
The fourth act is known as the Cathedral act, and established Gounod's reputation as a writer of serious music.
The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Compose...
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Clearly, in a family of serious music fans -or one that wants to be -that would never fly.
Wired
11
For serious music fans?
The Guardian
12
By 1971 these questions had largely been answered and much to older listeners delight, live serious music and speech were retained.
BBC
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Walter Nash 5' 35 Genesis of YC serious music stations in 1931 as alternatives to YAs.
Radio NZ
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But otherwise, there was little or no serious music to be heard emanating from any Irish radio station, writes Kevin Myers.
The Irish Times
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A further glance at the promo might suggest -even to serious music buffs -that the protagonist is based on Dylan himself.
The Irish Times
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Victor Borge, who died on December aged 91, was not the first comedian to have contrived his act from sending up or mutilating serious music.
The Irish Times
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