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14 hours ago · The violin has long had an honored place in the tradition of Western music. Like Western culture itself, it has traveled all around the world: for popularity and wide distribution its only serious rival is the piano. The violin and the piano are complementary, but very different, animals.
4 days ago · Classical music. A youth orchestra performing. 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 · Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, [1] from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period. Following the traditional ...
- c. 1730-1820
- c. 1400-1600
- c. 500-1400
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3 days ago · Jan Wouter Oostenrijk, Feat. Nasser Salameh - Traveling East - The Acoustic Album (Mountain Records, 2023) On Traveling East - The Acoustic Album, Dutch musician Jan Wouter Oostenrijk orchestrates a captivating convergence of Middle Eastern and North African musical traditions with his Western heritage.
1 day ago · The historical unfolding of western art music and the ways in which culture and society have played a central role in that development. Music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque will be studied from the perspective of the way in which it has been influenced and in turn influenced religion, politics, economics, and other social issues.
2 days ago · Western culture. Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
3 days ago · African music, the musical sounds and practices of all indigenous peoples of Africa, including the Berber in the Sahara and the San and Khoikhoin in Southern Africa. The music of European settler communities and that of Arab North Africa are not included in the present discussion. For the music of Islamic Africa, see Islamic arts: Music.
