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How to pronounce neoclassicism in English?

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Type Words
Type of artistic style, arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, idiom, liberal arts
Derivation neoclassical, neoclassicist, neoclassicistic

Examples of neoclassicism

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After this first Russian phase, Stravinsky turned to neoclassicism in the 1920s.
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It declined when it seemed to European eyes the very antithesis of neoclassicism.
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Neoclassicism reached its peak in the work of Juan de Villanueva and his disciples.
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In neoclassicism, composers drew inspiration from music of the 18th century.
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In North America, the Federal style owes much to neoclassicism as practised by Adam.
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The arts of ancient Greece, the Renaissance and neoclassicism were arts of perfection.
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But the Enlightenment and neoclassicism brought tightly fitted clothing to the surface.
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The Sicilian Baroque was gradually and slowly being superseded by French neoclassicism.
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By the late 1920s and 1930s, the use by composers of neoclassicism had become widespread.
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  • Revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
  • (neoclassical) neoclassic: characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style
  • (neoclassicist) an advocate of neoclassicism
  • Neoclassicism is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture (usually that of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome). ...
  • Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the period between the two World Wars, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional ...
  • (Neoclassic (automobile)) A neoclassic, in automobile circles, is a car that is made somewhat in the image of the classic cars of the 1920s and 1930s (as defined by, for example, the Classic Car Club of America) without being necessarily intended as a full replica.
  • (Neoclassical (Metal)) Neo-classical metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that is heavily influenced by classical music. ...
  • (neoclassical) Of pertaining to a style of architecture based on classical models, especially such a style of the 18th century
  • (Neoclassical) A revival of ancient Greek and Roman styles in art and architecture in the 18th and 19th centuries, which was characterized by order, symmetry and simplicity.