chamber music

noun

: music and especially instrumental ensemble music intended for performance in a private room or small auditorium and usually having one performer for each part

Examples of chamber music in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web All Westgate’s Whistledown Tea bookings, with live chamber music and a glass of champagne or apple cider, are sold out. Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2024 Small pleasures: The San Francisco Symphony’s chamber music concerts never fail to please; this Sunday, a group of eight musicians come together in Davies Hall to play a program of works by Tchaikovsky, Penderecki, Durwynne Hsieh, and Edgar Meyer. Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024 Now serving as its co-directors, Espinoza runs his own studio and teaches jazz piano as an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute and Franklin is a composer who plays clarinet in a chamber music ensemble. Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2024 Set one will consist of a chamber music ensemble and set two will consist of cabaret artists and an accompanying trio. Jem Aswad, Variety, 22 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for chamber music 

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Word History

First Known Use

1615, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of chamber music was in 1615

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“Chamber music.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chamber%20music. Accessed 8 Jun. 2024.

Kids Definition

chamber music

noun
: instrumental music to be performed by a few musicians in a room or small hall

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