acoustic music
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- noun
- /əˈkuːstɪk ˈmjuːzɪk/
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música acústica
- She enjoys listening to acoustic music because it highlights the natural sound of the instruments.
- live acoustic music
Examples
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According to her bio, Lynch has been long recognized and praised as a creative force in acoustic music.
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"It's really just going back and reclaiming something I feel like I do have some ownership of, which is the acoustic music scene in Nashville."
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And then there are the players, recruited from the top echelons of bluegrass and acoustic music.
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We are a group of musicians interested in playing some acoustic music in the shelters in the evenings to help keep people entertained.
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The production team decamped at one point for Brooklyn, New York, where Dierks spent a magical three days recording with the Punch Brothers, arguably the most innovative and technically complete pickers in acoustic music.
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The concert featured various artists performing acoustic music without electronic instruments.
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Many people prefer acoustic music for its simplicity and authenticity in sound.
How Amplified
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'music performed without electronic amplification' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'acoustic' (relating to natural sound or sound properties) combined with 'music'. The adjective-to-noun combination is transparent and has clear equivalents/cognates in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the intended sense.
Etymology
Acoustic music came to mean music played without electric equipment. The word acoustic points to natural sound—imagine a guitar and a singer filling a small room with their own sound instead of using speakers. That's why it now means 'music made with natural sound, not using speakers or microphones'.