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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
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classical. Term which, applied to mus., has vague rather than specific meaning:
1. mus. comp. roughly between 1750 and 1830 (i.e. post-Baroque and pre-Romantic) which covers the development of the classical sym. and conc.
2. mus. of an orderly nature, with qualities of clarity and balance, and emphasising formal beauty rather than emotional expression (which is not to say that emotion is lacking).
3. mus. generally regarded as having permanent rather than ephemeral value.
4. ‘classical music’ is used as a generic term meaning the opposite of light or popular mus
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Modern Classicism.
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Hodgepodge Exhibition Is Classicism--Not.(Arts&Entertainment)
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Albion's Classicism: The Visual Arts in Britain, 1550-1660.
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CLASSICISM: SERIOUS AND SASSY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/2/1990; ; 700+ words
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The Literature of Weimar Classicism.(Book review)
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IN THE SOUTH, CLASSICISM RISES AGAIN.(Rodney M. Cook brings classicism to Atlanta)
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Refined, subtle classicism the big idea at Ideabiella Show.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 3/31/1987; ; 700+ words
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism
Magazine article from: Goethe Yearbook; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
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Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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New Classicism
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classicism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
classicism a term that, when applied generally...architecture. Because the principles of classicism were derived from the rules and practices...Thereafter The first major revival of classicism occurred during the Renaissance (c...
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stripped Classicism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
stripped Classicism. Classical architecture from which mouldings...among many others, experimented with stripped Classicism . It is a feature of late-C18 and early C19 Neo-Classicism , as well as of the Rational architecture of...
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