musical style


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Noun1.musical style - an expressive style of musicmusical style - an expressive style of music  
music genre, musical genre, genre
music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
African-American music, black music - music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
classical, classical music, serious music - traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
crossover - the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience; "a jazz-classical crossover album"
church music, religious music - genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies
marching music, march - genre of music written for marching; "Sousa wrote the best marches"
popular music, popular music genre - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
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This volume examines Czech musical style during the Baroque period in Bohemia and Moravia, challenging the myths that it was a odark periodo for Czech language literature and arts, that the language died and was replaced with German, and that the notion of a Czech identity was invented in the 19th century.
Bohemian Baroque: Czech Musical Culture and Style, 1600-1750

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