Classical music

Classical music is a serious or conventional music following long-established principles rather than a folk, jazz, or popular tradition. More specifically, it is music written in the European tradition during a period lasting approximately from 1750 to 1830, when forms such as the symphony, concerto, and sonata were standardized. In the most general meaning of the word, classical music may designate fine music or serious music. More technically the word may refer to a period in the history of music, the later 18th century, the age of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The classical may be differentiated from the so-called romantic, the relatively experimental and less formally restricted kinds of music that became current in the 19th century.

History

This music is produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both religious music (from which it originated) and secular music. The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common-practice period. The term may also more narrowly refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 (the Classical period).

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music (both liturgical and secular). It encompasses a broad span of time from roughly the 11th century to the present day. The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common practice period. [...] The major time divisions of classical music are as follows: the early music period, which includes the Medieval (500–1400) and the Renaissance (1400–1600) eras; the Common practice period, which includes the Baroque (1600–1750), Classical (1750–1830), and Romantic eras (1804–1910); and the 20th century (1901–2000) which includes the modern (1890–1930) that overlaps from the late 19th-century, the high modern (mid 20th-century), and contemporary or postmodern (1975–2000) eras, the last of which overlaps into the 21st-century. [...] The most outstanding characteristic of classical music is that the repertoire tends to be written down in musical notation, creating a musical part or score. This score typically determines details of rhythm, pitch, and, where two or more musicians (whether singers or instrumentalists) are involved, how the various parts are coordinated. [...] The written quality of the music has, in addition to preserving the works, enabled a high level of complexity within them: Bach’s fugues, for instance, achieve a remarkable marriage of boldly distinctive melodic lines weaving in counterpoint yet creating a coherent harmonic logic that would be impossible in the heat of live improvisation.

See also

• Portal:Classical music
• Second Viennese School
• Other race differences: Musical abilities and music genres

External links

• Triggered by Bach: Classical Music as Implicit White Supremacy
• Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles over Race and Free Speech - Allegedly part of "the much larger context of Black-on-Jew attacks in the United States".