#classical_music__classicalmusic__serious_music__seriousmusic  traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
  supertype:  #music_genre__musicgenre__musical_genre__musicalgenre__genre__musical_style__musicalstyle  an expressive style of music
  subtype:  #chamber_music__chambermusic  serious music performed by a small group of musicians
  subtype:  #opera  a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
     subtype:  #comic_opera__opera_bouffe__operabouffe__opera_comique__operacomique  opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken
        subtype:  #operetta__light_opera__lightopera  a short amusing opera
     subtype:  #grand_opera__grandopera  opera in which all the text is sung
     subtype:  #musical_drama__musicaldrama  opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action
  subtype:  #cantata__oratorio  a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
  subtype:  #concerto  a composition for orchestra and a soloist
     subtype:  #concerto_grosso  a baroque composition for orchestra and a group of solo instruments
  subtype:  #fugue  a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
  subtype:  #rondo__rondeau  a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
  subtype:  #sonata  a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
     subtype:  #piano_sonata__pianosonata  a sonata for piano
     subtype:  #symphony__symphonic_music__symphonicmusic  a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra

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