Type of music

A standard of music describes musical practices associated with same a cultural context, according to three dimensions, historical, geographical and social. Consequently, when one speaks about the music of such social group, such area of the sphere, and such time, one defines a particular type of music.

Some examples of the types of music:

- traditional Music - of such or such culture;

- erudite Music - of such or such culture;

- Western music;

- nonWestern music - cultural origin to specify;

- Classical music - in the broad sense, i.e., erudite Music Western;

- music promoted by the media popular culture;

- etc

the various types of music can be organized in an arborescent way. For example, the type Western music includes the type Classical music, which includes the type Baroque music, which includes the type “ Baroque music during second half of the 17th century ”, which includes the type “ French music at the time of Louis XIV ”, etc

It is appropriate carefully to distinguish the type of music of the Musical genre. Indeed, a type of music can be associated with several musical genres. For example, the Western classical music is a type of music using various musical genres such as: opera, Sonata, Symphony, Cantata, etc Conversely, a musical genre can belong to different standard from music . For example, a Berceuse is a musical genre as one as well finds in the classical music as in the popular music, thus besides that in many types of traditional music.

Each type of music is determined by one or more “musical systems” - together of rules and theorized uses being able to be possibly . For example, the Classical music will know successively, a modal system homophonous, a modal system polyphonic, a tonal Système and harmonic, a serial atonal system, a random atonal system, etc

For all that touches with the theories and the musical systems, to consult the category Théorie of the music.

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