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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
Karen DeCrow

Meaning of "chamber music" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHAMBER MUSIC

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHAMBER MUSIC

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Chamber music is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CHAMBER MUSIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part. However, by definition it usually does not include solo instrument performances. Because of its intimate nature, chamber music has been described as "the music of friends." For more than 200 years, chamber music was played primarily by amateur musicians in their homes, and even today, when most chamber music performance has migrated from the home to the concert hall, many musicians, amateur and professional, still play chamber music for their own pleasure. Playing chamber music requires special skills, both musical and social, that differ from the skills required for playing solo or symphonic works. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described chamber music as "four rational people conversing." This conversational paradigm has been a thread woven through the history of chamber music composition from the end of the 18th century to the present.

Definition of chamber music in the English dictionary

The definition of chamber music in the dictionary is music for performance by a small group of instrumentalists.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHAMBER MUSIC

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CHAMBER MUSIC

absolute music
art music
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Synonyms and antonyms of chamber music in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «chamber music» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHAMBER MUSIC

Find out the translation of chamber music to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of chamber music from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «chamber music» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

室内乐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

música de cámara
570 millions of speakers

English

chamber music
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चैम्बर संगीत
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

موسيقى الحجرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

камерная музыка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

música de câmara
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চেম্বার সঙ্গীত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

musique de chambre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

ruang muzik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kammermusik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

室内楽
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

실내악
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Musik kamar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhạc thính phòng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அறை இசை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चेंबर संगीत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oda müziği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

musica da camera
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

muzyka kameralna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

камерна музика
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

muzică de cameră
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μουσικής δωματίου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kamermusiek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kammarmusik
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kammermusikk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of chamber music

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHAMBER MUSIC»

The term «chamber music» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.744 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHAMBER MUSIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about chamber music

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8 QUOTES WITH «CHAMBER MUSIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word chamber music.
1
Christo
If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.
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Karen DeCrow
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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Gustav Mahler
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
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Neville Marriner
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
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Cheryl Mendelson
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.
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Amos Oz
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
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Andre Previn
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHAMBER MUSIC»

Discover the use of chamber music in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to chamber music and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Chamber Music
However, Joyce also dabbled in other genres, and poetry, according to some accounts, was his first literary love. Chamber Music was Joyce's first full-length collection of verse; the compilation includes a number of his best early poems.
James Joyce, 2011
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Chamber Music: An Essential History
A thorough overview and history of chamber music
Mark A. Radice, 2012
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Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide
Now James Keller follows these greatly admired volumes with Chamber Music.
James M. Keller, 2011
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Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Stephen Hefling, 2003
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Bartók's Chamber Music
At first sight a work devoted to Bartók's chamber music looks as though it were simply concerned with a genre division attempting an exposition of no more than a single aspect of the whole oeuvre.
János Kárpáti, 1994
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Chamber Music
-- Music Educators Journal
Homer Ulrich, 1966
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Chamber Music: A Research and Information Guide
680. aesthetics and sociology of chamber music; Bohemian chamber music; definition of chamber music; European chamber music; and 20thcentury chamber music. Most of these fit into my definition but some do not. Essentially, chamber ...
John H Baron, 2010
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Chamber Music
The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general.
Thomas F. Dunhill, 2007
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Chamber Music
One convict sought freedom; the other sought only salvation.Douglas Quaide is serving thirty years at the Kerwin Correctional Facility, where despair constantly presses on his soul.
Peter A. Balaskas, 2010
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Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context
This comprehensive survey shows how the larger scale works relate to Beethoven's chamber music and how the composer evolved an increasing freedom of form.
Angus Watson, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHAMBER MUSIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term chamber music is used in the context of the following news items.
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Chamber-music fest off to sizzling start
The annual Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival opened July 6 with a program of striking contrasts — an early Beethoven trio and ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
2
Fine Music in Ireland's Far West Chamber Music, Charming Setting
Fortissimo or Pianissimo -- that's the dilemma of devoted concertgoers at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Should we holler out its ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Yale School of Music Norfolk Chamber Music Fest opens
NORFOLK >> A 75-minute drive to the hills of western Connecticut, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival begins its summer run of chamber ... «New Haven Register, Jul 15»
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Southeast Missouri State University Chamber Music Institute …
The Southeast Chamber Music Institute at Southeast Missouri State University announces its fourth annual chamber music recitals to be ... «SEMO Times, Jul 15»
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An evening of classical chamber music in Fryeburg
FRYEBURG — Seven musicians of the International Musical Arts Institute will return to Fryeburg Academy's the Leura Hill Eastman Performing ... «Lewiston Sun Journal, Jul 15»
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Music review: Austin Chamber Music Festival
Yep, it's festival season again — Austin's premiere classical music fest, from the Austin Chamber Music Center, is busy occupying recital halls ... «austin360, Jul 15»
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Chamber music group to perform at Sandzen Gallery
Chamber Music at the Barn from Wichita will present a special concert, “Contrasting Rhapsodies and a Classic Quintet,” at 3 p.m. Sunday at the ... «McPherson Sentinel, Jul 15»
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Pianist Vadym Kholodenko returns to Greenville
On Monday, Kholodenko returns for the third time to perform with the Enso String Quartet in "Hungarian Flavors," a chamber music program of ... «Greenville News, Jul 15»
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More superb performances at Mimir Chamber Music Festival
Stephen Rose, Frank Huang, Brant Taylor and Joan DerHovsepian performed at the Kimbell Art Museum on Sunday as part of the Mimir ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
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Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival
CTV Morning Live wants to send you to see the California Guitar Trio and Montreal Guitar Trio at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. «CTV News, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Chamber music [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/chamber-music>. May 2024 ».
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