Classical music

Classical music is the musical current that mainly deals with music produced or based on the traditions of the liturgical and secular music of the West, mainly Western Europe. It covers a period of time that goes approximately from the 11th century to the present, although this definition is not applicable to the music presented in our century despite the same characteristics, 1 if the main characteristics of the genre were codified mainly between 1550 and 1900, which can be read as the characteristic period of production of classical music. In a historiographical sense, classical music is divided into several periods: ancient or medieval music, which covers the period covered by the Late Middle Ages in Europe (1000-1400); Renaissance music (1400-1600); Baroque music, which coincides with the development of Baroque art (1600-1750); classicism (1750-1800), which in the history of music and musicology, is sometimes called "classical music"; 2 Romanticism (1800-1910); and contemporary music, which includes the different currents of classical music of the 20th century, which adopts the atonal and dissonant option and other tendencies opposed to previous currents.