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Encyclopedia > Music of Europe

The music of Europe includes the music of Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe. Categories: Eastern European music | Music stubs ... Nordic music is a generic term for the multiple genres of the Nordic nations. ...


See also: European classical music Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, particularly between 1000 and 1900. ...


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music: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (10177 words)
The technical aspects of music, such as theory, notation, and tone, are treated in such general articles as theory and musical notation, and in more specific entries, including counterpoint; harmonic; harmony; key; measure; mode; musicology; note; pitch; polyphony; rhythm; scale; syncopation; tablature; temperament; tonality; tone; transposing instrument; and tuning systems.
Music theory, within this realm, is studied with the presupposition that music is orderly and often pleasant to hear.
Music history itself is the distinct subfield of musicology and history, which studies the chronological development of music, primarily in the Western world.
Music of Europe (1282 words)
It is true that in the 19th century, it was thought that popular music maintained in the countryside was nothing other than a pale reflection of what was happening in the towns.
It is certainly the birth of national schools and in the rise of industrial Europe that the foundations of a science of folklore, born in Germany, were set up.
Another instrument that could symbolize the renewal in the field of musical instruments and call to mind this set of observations about exchanges between traditional music and written music in urban areas is the accordion.
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