1 symphonism | Definition of symphonism

symphonism

noun
sym·​pho·​nism | \ ˈsim(p)-fə-ˌni-zəm How to pronounce symphonism (audio) \

Definition of symphonism

1 : musical composition in a symphonic style especially : musical composition of complexity and seriousness of purpose regarded as appropriate to the symphony … their suspicion of the abstract symphonic genre was deeply rooted enough to provoke calls for a new kind of proletarian symphonism based on mass song. — Pauline Fairclough, A Soviet Credo, 2006
2 the writing of symphonies So Debussy and Satie began to seek a way out of the hulking fortresses of Beethovenian symphonism and Wagnerian opera.— Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise, 2007
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