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 Encyclopedia: Western classical music
Classical and popular music are distinguished to some extent by their choice of instruments.
The relationship (particularly, the relative value) of classical music and popular music is a controversial question.
Musical works are best understood in the context of their place in musical history, for many this is essential to fully enjoying these works.
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 Western music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word Western may be misleading; although much of this music came from Europe and North America, important contributions have come from places like Russia, Japan, and Australia.
Western music is a broad category of music that includes all musical genres that use a 12-note chromatic scale, including Western classical music, rock and roll, and many other forms of popular music.
Western music developed out of the creatively fertile framework of Western philosophy that had its birthplace in ancient Greece.
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 Classical Music: Western australia ()
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 Western music -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
(Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged) Rap
(Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste) Classical music
(additional info and facts about Romantic music) Romantic music
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 History of western music
The history of Western music is closely tied to the history of Western classical music :
Baroque music (17th and first half of the 18th centuries)
Classical music era (1750s to beginning of the 19th century)
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 Oxford University Press: Music History, Western
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