absolute music

Instrumental music that is free of any explicit verbal reference or program.

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absolute music

(Music, other) music that is not designed to depict or evoke any scene or event. Compare programme music

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absolute music

, abstract music, pure music - Absolute music (abstract music, pure music) is music for its own sake—concerned only with structure, melody, harmony, and rhythm.

absolute music

Music free of all reference to anything outside the essential nature of the music. The listener’s attention is not distracted by lyric or association, and can therefore focus entirely on the beauty of the music itself.

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