serious music

Questions about serious music

What does serious music mean?

serious music means "traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste".

What is another word for serious music?

Close synonyms include classical music, classical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is serious music a common word?

serious 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.