Definition of Symphonic music

1. Noun. A long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra.

Exact synonyms: Symphony
Generic synonyms: Sonata
Derivative terms: Symphonic, Symphonize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Symphonic Music

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Literary usage of Symphonic music

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1917)
"symphonic music.—New symphonic music by American composers presented by the orchestras during the year includes: Charles Martin Loef- ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"The Symphony Concerts for Young People are training children and adults to appreciate symphonic music. The Musical Art Society emphasizes the old Flemish ..."

3. Recollections of an Old Musician by Thomas Ryan (1899)
"The friends of symphonic music, hungering for the best in quality, organized in 1865 the Harvard Musical Association. Mr. Carl Zerrahn was engaged as ..."

4. Music and Life: A Study of the Relations Between Ourselves and Music by Thomas Whitney Surette (1917)
"But I should not leave this part of my subject without setting forth the relation between these elements of symphonic music and the orchestral instruments ..."

5. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1917)
"symphonic music.—New symphonic music by American composers presented by the orchestras during the year includes: Charles Martin Loef- ..."

6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"The Symphony Concerts for Young People are training children and adults to appreciate symphonic music. The Musical Art Society emphasizes the old Flemish ..."

7. Recollections of an Old Musician by Thomas Ryan (1899)
"The friends of symphonic music, hungering for the best in quality, organized in 1865 the Harvard Musical Association. Mr. Carl Zerrahn was engaged as ..."

8. Music and Life: A Study of the Relations Between Ourselves and Music by Thomas Whitney Surette (1917)
"But I should not leave this part of my subject without setting forth the relation between these elements of symphonic music and the orchestral instruments ..."

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