Classical music

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This article disambiguates several traditions of music called "classical music". For the most common uses in English, please see European classical music and Classical music era.

Classical music in its widest sense is held to refer to music deriving from learned traditions, taught through institutions either specifically devoted to music (e.g. modern Western or through institutions or traditions (typically religious) dedicated to transmission of specific schools of music. Classical music is thus contrasted with popular or folk music.

In the English language, the term "classical music" is a homophoric reference to European classical music and its derivative styles, and is rarely used to refer to traditional musical styles of other regions. It can thus carry the meaning of concert music in general.of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, and their immediate successors (as distinct from, for example, the music of the preceding baroque and the subsequent romantic eras). It is with respect to this latter canon that the term 'classical music' was first used, in the 1820s and 1830s, denote a body of music that was compared to the classical traditions of art, sculpture and architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome

The following genres of music may all be referred to as 'classical' in the sense of having a consensus core canon:

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