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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Gebrauchsmusik (literally “utility music”).
Noun
Gebrauchsmusik (uncountable)
- (musicology) Music composed for a specific, identifiable purpose, not just for its own sake.
2009, Elizabeth B. Crist, Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 76:Copland's own criticism of Gebrauchsmusik as a “contaminated” musical style can also be read as a rebuke of its ties to musical styles associated with the culture industry.
Further reading
German
Etymology
From Gebrauch + -s- + Musik, 1920s.
Pronunciation
Noun
Gebrauchsmusik f (genitive Gebrauchsmusik, plural Gebrauchsmusiken)
- Gebrauchsmusik (music composed for a specific, identifiable purpose, not just for its own sake)
- Coordinate term: Gebrauchsliteratur
Declension
Declension of Gebrauchsmusik
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