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2 days ago · Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to non-Western art musics.
5 days ago · Western classical or specifically European classical music is just one amongst varied traditions of classical music. Evolving through the years western classical music has evolved into two distinguishable strands.
3 days ago · Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.
4 days ago · European classical music changed greatly in the 20th century. New music abandoned much of the historical, nationally developed schools of harmony and melody in favor of experimental music, atonality, minimalism and electronic music, all of which employ features that have become common to European music in general and not Italy ...
3 days ago · 1) literate tradition of composition (western european), 2) oral tradition of improvisation (african american) - this balance of these two forces is unstable and shifted dramatically since inception of jazz to present.
3 days ago · Jazz is hybrid of musical traditions, reflects a blend of musical interpretations as well as blend of musical elements. Writing music down is useful as compositional devidce but its not important in spontaneous improvisation.
3 days ago · Eastern European folk music available to westerners accurately reflects the lives of common people.
