art music
Sign in to saveAlso known as cultivated music, serious music, legitimate music, classical music, formal music, canonic music
serious music, as opposed to popular or folk music; meta-genre covering global classical music developments
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- Category:Art music
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- Art music
- different from
- classical music
- partially coincident with
- classical music
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Beethoven's autographic sketch for his Piano Sonata No. 28, Movement IV, Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossenheit (Allegro). He completed the piece in 1816.
Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music) is music considered to be of high phonoaesthetic value. It typically implies advanced structural and theoretical considerations or a written musical tradition. In this context, the terms "serious" or "cultivated" are frequently used to present a contrast with ordinary, everyday music (i.e. popular and folk music, also called "vernacular music"). Many cultures have art music traditions; in the Western world, the term typically refers to Western classical music.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “art music” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.