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Music
Haggin, B. H. | July 27, 1946 issue

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This article focuses on the chamber music. Chamber music, in the nineteenth century, was reduced to the private affair of a musical minority, a musical elite which was "able to derive enjoyment from absolute music"; while the public musical scene was dominated by the "Bengal light" orchestral sonorities of program music, the music with extra-musical meaning that was "dictated" by the new concert-hall public "composed of the large mass of the middle classes" who possessed the necessary general culture but whose musical capabilities could not rise to pure music.

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CHAMBER music; MUSIC; ORCHESTRAL music; MIDDLE class; CULTURE; ELITE (Social sciences)
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