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名詞

ambient music (uncountable)

1. (music) A genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.
   • 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 306:

     There’s this old French composer I love named Erik Satie who wanted to compose what he called furniture music, by which he meant background music, music not meant to be noticed but to kind of just fill the room, which would now be called ambient music, but this was in the late 1800s, so pretty far ahead of his time, I’d say.