What Is Classical Music

What Is Classical Music The word “Classical Music” means the age-old artwork of European. The period of European art music from 1750-1825 is called the classical music. We can also call classical music as the traditions of western liturgical and secular music. But now there are various misconceptions about “classical Music” in the present world among the people. Many people think that it’s the music of 1970’s or 1980’s.Some people even don’t know what classical music is and some think that it just old music. But one thing we can all agree that it’s old. But they don’t know from where, when and what the period of time classical music came from. Most people choose to inhabit the musical time with modern music. As “classical Music” is the art of the Western world, it falls under category of art just as painting, dance and literature .An artist has to master in their own category to make something beautiful. Just as a dancer must progress good control over his body and movement to make a wonder coordination of dance, a musician trains his hands to acquire mastery over his instrument to make beautiful music. A classical musician has to spend a lot of time practicing in order to learn to play their music. In the present world now we have lot of machines that can reproduce music but this kind music is not as joy able as playing the instruments with hand to so many people and musicians. There is history behind how classical music came out. Long time ago, the church was a very powerful institution because they needed music for services. So they used to hire composers, singers and instrumentalists. In a way, this type of music was sacred. So music was highly valued in the beginning of the civilization. There is an evidence of the importance of music in the beginnings of western civilization. In the Greek and Roman mythology Apollo, the sun god, represented light, truth and rationality also poetry and music. And also Apollo is the master of the lyre, which was