chamber music

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   serious music performed by a small group of musicians

   Broaderclassical music

Questions about chamber music

What does chamber music mean?

chamber music means "serious music performed by a small group of musicians".

Is chamber music a common word?

chamber music is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.