The usual name of art music, academic, scholarly, and others.
Classical music in music history and musicology of classical music is by choice.
Music tradition is cultured, his first light in Europe are at about 1450. There is an expression that covers almost all periods to define its heyday: the common practice period.
By 1950 the composition educated (some complexity in notation and instrumentation) begins to be located mostly outside of the earlier tradition, by radically atonal and dissonant composition and other opposing tendencies.
It also reside various subgenres:
* Music Renaissance: Between 1450 and 1600, found an increased use of instruments, many melodic lines and use of early low or bass instruments.
* Baroque Music: Between 1600 and 1750. Comes the use of more complex tones, rather than the form and counterpoint. Become popular keyboard instruments (harpsichord and organ).
* Classical music: Between 1730 and 1820, was an important era which established many of the rules of composition and structure. The classical period is also marked by the disappearance of the harpsichord and clavichord for the new piano, which thereafter became the predominant instrument for keyboard interpretation and composition.
* Romantic Music: Between 1815 and 1910. Period which codified practice, expanded the role of music in cultural life and created institutions for teaching, implementation and maintenance of musical works.
* Modern Music: Between 1905 and 1985. Represented a crisis in values of classical music and its role within intellectual life, and the extension of the theory and technique. Some theorists, such as Arnold Schoenberg in his essay "Brahms the Progressive, insist that Modernism represents a logical progression of trends in nineteenth-century composition. Others argue the opposite point of view, indicating that Modernism represents the rejection or denial of the method of classical composition.
* Twentieth Century Music: Normally used to describe the wide variety of subgenres post-Romanticism to 2000 employees, including post-romantic, modern and post-modern.
* Contemporary classical music: The term is sometimes used to describe music composed in recent years of the twentieth century to the present.
* The prefix neo is often used to describe a composition of the twentieth century and contemporary writing in a genre belonging to an earlier period, as the classic, romantic or modern, but with a modern language. For example, the Classical Symphony of Prokofiev - that goes to the models of the classicism of Haydn symphony - is considered a neo-classical composition.
BIography:
Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn, Germany, December 16, 1770 - Vienna, Austria, March 26, 1827) was a composer, conductor and pianist German. His musical legacy was extended chronologically from the classical period until the beginning of musical Romanticism.
Considered the last great representative of Viennese classicism (after Christoph Willibald Gluck, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Beethoven managed to transcend the music of Romanticism, motivating influence it in a variety of musical works over nineteenth century. His art is expressed in many genres and even symphonies were the main source of his international popularity, its impact turned out to be more important in his works for piano and chamber music.
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