History of Classical Music For Beginners by R. Ryan Endris

Author:R. Ryan Endris
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781939994271
Publisher: For Beginners

Chapter 16

CLASSICAL MUSIC AND CLASSICAL STYLE

In the late eighteenth century, we see the development of a new idiom known as the classical style, among many other names. Ambiguously, the term “classical” can refer broadly to all art music of all periods composed in the vein that we have studied thus far (and will continue to examine in the remaining chapters). More narrowly it can be used to describe specifically the style of the late eighteenth century. This ambiguity is not without reason: in the nineteenth century, the music of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were considered the classics of music, much like the classics of literature and art, and their music formed the core of classical repertoire. Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that term grew to encompass all art music composed. The term “Baroque” then became the term used to describe the music of Bach and Handel, with “classical” left to describe that of the late eighteenth century. This is how one can say that not all classical music is classical!

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