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chamber music
noun
: music and especially instrumental ensemble music intended for performance in a private room or small auditorium and usually having one performer for each part
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The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble returns this weekend with an intimate chamber music setting of 20th and 21st century works — with an emphasis on drama and poetry.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
The Andrew Alden Ensemble will accompany the film with live music that includes elements of classical chamber music and rock, featuring a string trio, synthesizers, percussion, piano, and vibraphone.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
He's music director of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra in Massachusetts, leads a chamber music season at Villa Terrace Decorative Art Museum, and guest conducts.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2024
No wonder this piece came out sounding lucid as chamber music, as though each line had been teased apart and individually combed.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2024
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First Known Use
1615, in the meaning defined above
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“Chamber music.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chamber%20music. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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chamber music
noun
: instrumental music to be performed by a few musicians in a room or small hall
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