Classical Music

Oboe

Violin Flute

Double bass

French horn

Harp

1. Bowed String(violin, double bass)2. Woodwind(flute, oboe, saxophone) 3. Keyboard(piano, harpsichord)3. Brass(trumpet, trombone)4. Percussion(xylophone, bass drum)5. Plucked String(harp, guitar)6. Tongue wind(harmonica)

History of classical music

DEVELOPING, CHURCH MUSIC ETC. JOAHANN S. BACH (1685-1750) GEORGE F. HANDEL (1685-1759)

Periods of Western art music

Early

Medieval   (500–1400)

Renaissance (1400–1600)

Baroque (1600–1760)

Common practice

Classical (1750–1790)

Romantic (1815–1910)

Modern and contemporary

20th century (1900–2000)

Contemporary (1975–present)

WOLFGANG A. MOZART(1756-1791) LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN(1770-1827)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY, IGOR STRAVINSKY, GEORGE GERSHWIN

J.STRAUSS

R.WAGNER J.BACH

W.MOZART G.VERDI P.TCHAIKOVSKY

L.BEETHOVEN

Some Interesting Facts• Mendelssohn left the score for his A Midsummer Night's Dream

overture in a cab, and was able to rewrite every note from memory.

• American composer John Cage (1912–1992) composed a work in 1952 entitled 4' 33", which consists of four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence. Today you can buy it in ITunes store for $0,99

• The term classical music was not used until the early 19th century in order to canonize the period from Bach to Beethoven as an impressive, "golden" era of music. 

• Beethoven was attracted to the ideals of the Enlightenment. In 1804, when Napoleon's imperial ambitions became clear, Beethoven took hold of the title-page of his Third Symphony  and scratched the name Bonaparte out so violently that he made a hole in the paper. He later changed the work's title to "Heroic Symphony, composed to celebrate the memory of a great man”.