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music performed in a chamber setting like a room in a house, the great hall of a palace, or the sanctuary of a church. Naturally, because of concerns regarding space, the music would often feature ...

As the name suggests, they play “chamber music”—older tunes written for private halls, aristocratic parlors, and glitzy palace chambers. Of course, contemporary composers still crank out ...

Just as St. Mark's Basilica, the most famous church in Venice, Italy, was built to impress, the music designed for it ... adjacent to the Venetian rulers' palace, was used for official ceremonies.

No wonder it draws visitors from all over the world. Chamber music was designed to be played in intimate surroundings, originally a palace chamber where a king and his closest confidants could ...

that could be accommodated in a palace chamber. The word "chamber" is an apt description of music performed in a small room. Its intimate nature has given it the term, "the music of friends".

The intimate genre known as chamber music, however -- instrumental classical ... that were often performed in a large room, such as a palace chamber, for a relatively small audience.