#classical_music__classicalmusic__serious_music__seriousmusic traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
supertype: music_genre__musicgenre__musical_genre__musicalgenre__genre__musical_style__musicalstyle an expressive style of music
subtype: chamber_music__chambermusic serious music performed by a small group of musicians
subtype: opera a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
subtype: comic_opera__opera_bouffe__operabouffe__opera_comique__operacomique opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken
subtype: operetta__light_opera__lightopera a short amusing opera
subtype: grand_opera__grandopera opera in which all the text is sung
subtype: musical_drama__musicaldrama opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action
subtype: cantata__oratorio a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
subtype: concerto a composition for orchestra and a soloist
subtype: concerto_grosso a baroque composition for orchestra and a group of solo instruments
subtype: fugue a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
subtype: rondo__rondeau a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
subtype: sonata a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
subtype: piano_sonata__pianosonata a sonata for piano
subtype: symphony__symphonic_music__symphonicmusic a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra
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