absolute music

absolute music definition

absolute music

music that does not seek to suggest a story, scene, etc. but is concerned purely with tone, structure, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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