WebIndian classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent. It has two major traditions: the North Indian classical music known as Hindustani and the South Indian expression known as Carnatic. ... During the period of Mughal rule of the Indian subcontinent, the traditions separated and evolved into distinct forms. ...

WebBaroque music (UK: / b ə ˈ r ɒ k / or US: / b ə ˈ r oʊ k /) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition, the galant style.The Baroque period is divided into three major phases: …

WebThe literary tradition of Classical Chinese poetry begins with the Classic of Poetry, or Shijing, dated to early 1st millennium BC.According to tradition, Confucius (551 BCE – 479 BCE) was the final editor of the collection in its present form, although the individual poems were mostly older than this. Burton Watson dates the anthology's main compilation date …

WebHindustani classical music is the classical music of northern regions of the Indian subcontinent.It may also be called North Indian classical music or, in Hindustani, shastriya sangeet (śāstriya saṅgīt).It is played in instruments like the violin, sitar and sarod.Its origins from the 12th century CE, when it diverged from Carnatic music, the classical tradition in …

WebThe earliest American classical music consists of part-songs used in religious services during Colonial times. The first music of this type in America were the psalm books, such as the Ainsworth Psalter, brought over from Europe by the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The first music publication in English-speaking North America — indeed the first …

WebThe music of Dmitriy Shostakovich defined the dominant style of Soviet classical music for subsequent generations of Soviet composers. Though Shostakovich had fallen out of favor with the Party following his denunciation by Zhdanov in the late 1940s, his status as the premiere Soviet composer was gradually re-established through the Khrushchev Thaw …

WebThe Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music written, according to its oldest extant sources, by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). The piece opens with a toccata section, followed by a fugue that ends in a coda.Scholars differ as to when it was composed. It could have been as early as c. 1704.Alternatively, a date as late as the …

WebThe klapa music is a form of a cappella singing that first appeared in littoral Croatia during the middle of the 19th century. The word klapa is derived from a word in slang Italian spoken in Trieste at the time. It refers to "a group of people" and the singing style traces its roots to liturgical church singing. The motifs, in general, celebrate love, wine (grapes), country …

WebThe music of Finland can be roughly divided into categories of folk music, classical and contemporary art music, and contemporary popular music.. The folk music of Finland belongs to a broader musical tradition, that has been common amongst Balto-Finnic people, sung in the so-called Kalevala metre. Though folk songs of the old variety became …

WebHistory Art music Origins. Little is known of the music of Brazil before the area's first encounter with Portuguese explorers on 22 April 1500. During the colonial period, documents detail the musical activities of the major Roman Catholic cathedrals and the parlors of the upper classes, but data about musical life outside these domains are sparse.