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Composition and uses of classical music in Europe ...

It can also be called "serious" music, but in the modern concept, all music is the product of a culture, understanding this, the set of ideas, beliefs, sciences, arts and customs that shape and characterize the social state of a people or race.
Anyway, what defines this musical style is exclusive. This is one that is not popular or folk.It is performed by few, with the idea that would appeal to many, but these are usually not many in general. Authors and performers have studied a long career in special schools, conservatories, and listeners in general have been induced to taste it a family tradition, which then can be grown. Requires some personal initiative to get to it. Something that is final if it has been able to transcendthe boundaries of time and space, is universal. The message of classical music has evolved in parallel to Western thought. Is its most notable feature: not static, is in continual changes in forms and ways, always seeking new languages, new forms of expression, which does not happen in the music of other cultures.
Despite the limitations of not being popular or folk, classical music is confined toa geographical area, the western culture, ie the European peoples and their cultural heirs, first the Americans and then some others. There is also a temporal limitation, referring to the term "classical music" to that created in the Renaissance and represents the most brilliant cultural phenomenon that has occurred in history, rivaled only by its scope, science Europe after the Renaissance.
Itsorigins lie in medieval and Renaissance music, being excluded from the classification of these "classic". Also excluded Eastern and African, without ignoring their values ​​and contributions. Western classical music moods tells us very deeply rooted in Europeans and their spiritual heirs.
Normally means classical music, the brief period from 1770-1810.
Classicism is an artistic period whichtends to express the idea of ​​formal perfection of reality, with absolute power, that is, it tends to express the world as a beautiful, perfect and through art give the sense of perfection, of peace, of the ideal. That is why it tends to accentuate the shape of things and not ideology or content. Thus is achieved perfectly reflect. Classicism gives us a man as harmonious and humanity is reflected asa perfect society without problems. This leads to a contradiction that arises during the French Revolution, a period of breaks, all kinds of changes and not reflected in its aesthetics. The classical man is thus the ideal of beauty. All that tends to express.
Qualities that define classical music: music delicate, very bright, cheerful and plastic.
To accomplish this, the melody takes a hugeimportance and becomes the staple of this music. The melody is the soul of classical music. To reach these tunes are going to resort to popular and folk music. They are made so that fail to reflect the perfection, with eight-bar phrases (divided into two four-four), sixteen (eight plus eight) or six (three plus three). This will create a highly regular melodies.
Mechanical rhythm is lost and Baroquesquare in favor of more natural and varied rhythms often stemming precisely from the melody. It is easy to find and simple colors, preferably higher tones on minors, which are only used when the music wants to strong fields of expression, showing classical music as something cheerful, bright and clear.
The classicism expressed primarily achieved through a Sonata and Symphony and secondarily withother forms of popular as the Serenade, matching and Divertimento.
Classical music is ideal to create something purely beautiful music that does not serve any purpose outside itself, why not try to serve, represent or imitate. Try to be an art itself is sustained without specific purposes. The rule is to build a music Classicism as simple as possible, symbolizing man as a harmonious and...