Classical music can be organized in a variety of ways

Medieval

Renaissance

Baroque

Classical

Romantic

and the Contemporary

Gregorian monophonic

Melody

Polyphony

Sacred

music

Secular

music

Instrumen

tal music

RENAISSANCE

Baroque

Sonata form

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