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Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.
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chamber music, music composed for small ensembles of instrumentalists. In its original sense, chamber music referred to music composed for the home, as opposed to that written for the theatre or church.
CMA defines chamber music as music composed for small ensembles, with one musician per part, generally performed without a conductor. “Chamber music” once referred only to Western classical music for small ensembles, such as string quartets.
Chamber jazz is a genre of jazz involving small, acoustic-based ensembles where group interplay is important. It is influenced aesthetically by the small ensembles of chamber music in musical neoclassicism and is often influenced by classical forms of Western music as well as non-Western music or culture.
This week, Catherine Bott asks the question: What exactly is Chamber Music? To illustrate the history of the genre, Catherine goes back to the father of the string quartet, Joseph Haydn, and traces the form's development through to its ultimate expression in Beethoven 's extraordinary late quartets.
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Chamber music can be any group of instruments from two up to nine. Each player will be playing something different from the others (“one to a part”) unlike an orchestra where there may be many violins all playing the same notes.
