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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
Examples of chamber music in a Sentence
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All Westgate’s Whistledown Tea bookings, with live chamber music and a glass of champagne or apple cider, are sold out.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2024
Small pleasures: The San Francisco Symphony’s chamber music concerts never fail to please; this Sunday, a group of eight musicians come together in Davies Hall to play a program of works by Tchaikovsky, Penderecki, Durwynne Hsieh, and Edgar Meyer.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
Now serving as its co-directors, Espinoza runs his own studio and teaches jazz piano as an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute and Franklin is a composer who plays clarinet in a chamber music ensemble.
—Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2024
Set one will consist of a chamber music ensemble and set two will consist of cabaret artists and an accompanying trio.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 22 May 2024
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Word History
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 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
chamber music
noun
: instrumental music to be performed by a few musicians in a room or small hall
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Nglish: Translation of chamber music for Spanish Speakers
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