This article disambiguates several traditions of music called "classical music". For the most common uses in English, please see European classical music and Classical music era.

Classical music in its widest sense is held to refer to music deriving from learned traditions, taught through institutions either specifically devoted to music (e.g. modern Western) or through institutions or traditions (typically religious) dedicated to transmission of specific schools of music. Classical music is thus contrasted with popular or folk music.

In the English language, the term "classical music" is usually a homophoric reference to European classical music and its derivative styles, and is rarely used to refer to traditional musical styles of other regions. It can also carry the specific meaning of concert music dating from the period of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, and their immediate successors. This Classical music era is thus distinguished from, for example, the music of the preceding Baroque and the subsequent Romantic eras). It is with respect to this latter canon that the term 'classical music' was first used, in the 1820s and 1830s, denote a body of music that was compared to the classical traditions of art, sculpture and architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome.

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i lovw my job!! i really do. so nice day =) and our horses are listening classical music nowadays =DDD
emihia (Emilia Putkinen) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:47:30 -0000
i lovw my job!! i really do. so nice day =) and our horses are listening classical music nowadays =DDD
Audio: I’m a classical music geek. :3 http://tumblr.com/xjp3un778
peacelovelea (Lea Ligot) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:39:07 -0000
Audio: I’m a classical music geek. :3 http://tumblr.com/xjp3un778
@jamescousins my kind of music.Get your spotify going: they have lots of classical & the "songs" are long so the adverts not such a problem
iamamro (iamamro) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:38:39 -0000
@jamescousins my kind of music.Get your spotify going: they have lots of classical & the "songs" are long so the adverts not such a problem
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An evening of Indian Classical Dance & Music Recital with Jayashree Rajagopalan & Naviin Gandharv on Nov 6th at 6:30 PM http://bit.ly/1TFh5O
NCPAMumbai (NCPA Mumbai) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:16:08 -0000
An evening of Indian Classical Dance & Music Recital with Jayashree Rajagopalan & Naviin Gandharv on Nov 6th at 6:30 PM http://bit.ly/1TFh5O
Metal - AS A GENRE - much like classical music - AS A GENRE - favors pompous song writing over actual WHOOMF. Where's my fucking degree.
helluvatoxx (Antonucci Mariglini) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:10:24 -0000
Metal - AS A GENRE - much like classical music - AS A GENRE - favors pompous song writing over actual WHOOMF. Where's my fucking degree.

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