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Music with essentially Renaissance characteristics continued to be composed, particularly in England, but also in Spain, Portugal, and France, for the first few decades of the 17th century (see English Madrigal School, air de cour).
Secular music included songs for one or many voices, forms such as the frottola, chanson and madrigal, consort music for recorder or viol and other instruments, and dances for various ensembles; and towards the end of the period, the early dramatic precursors of opera such as monody, the madrigal comedy, and the intermedio.
Classcial music is a style of art music of any culture, as distinguished from folk or popular music or jazz; European music of the classical period, composed from about 1750 to 1825.
Practically, the term is restricted to 18th and early 19th centure music, roughly from Bach through Beethoven.
Classicalmusic is connsidered a traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste.