Classical music

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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.

The following genres of music may all be referred to as 'classical' in the sense of having a consensus core canon:

Andalusian classical music
Arab classical music
Bengali classical music
Burmese classical music
Carnatic music
Central Asian classical music
Chinese classical music
Charya or Nepalese classical music
Classical Jazz
Classical music era
Classical rock
European classical music, classical music of Western cultures
Experimental music, a movement within 20th century classical music
Gagaku or Japanese classical music
Gamelan or Indonesian classical music
Greek classical music
Hindustani classical music
Indian classical music
Klasik or Afghan classical music
Korean court music
Laotian classical music
Mugam or Azerbaijani classical music
Music of Orissa
musiqi-e assil or Iranian classical music
Nangma or Tibetan classical music
Orthodox Byzantine music
Ottoman classical music
Philippine classical music
Pinpeat or Cambodian classical music
Sufiana Kalam or Kashmiri classical music
Thai court music
Vietnamese classical music

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