Classical music can be organized in a variety of ways

Medieval Renaissance BaroqueClassicalRomantic and the Contemporary

Classical music can be organized in a variety of ways

Gregorian monophonicMelodyPolyphony

Medieval

Sacred

music

Secular

music

Instrume

ntal

music

RENAISSANCE

Baroque Sonata form

Classical

Romantic

Structuralclarity

Elements of folk music were incorporated into symphonies, tone-poems and other "Classical "forms.

Why do musical styles change? the influence one composer has on another. Classical Baroque. The late Romantic period featured its own

extremes

Contemporary