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Noun

1. 1
   Instrumental music having an intellectual and affective content, which depends solely on its rhythmic, melodic, and contrapuntal structure. uncountable
2. 2
   instrumental music, as a concerto or string quartet, that draws no inspiration from or makes no reference to a text, program, visual image, or title and that exists solely in terms of its musical form, structure, and elements. wordnet

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