This web site provides almost everything you
need concerning classical music - its history,
biographical information about composers
including portraits, explanations of the
various musical
forms and a dictionary of
musical terminologies. It is designed to
be of use for everyone from "beginners"
to the music professional - decide for
yourself how deeply you follow the links.
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, encompassing
a broad period from
roughly 1000 to the present
day. The central norms of this tradition developed
throughout this
period but reached their heights of
complexity and development in the period between 1550
and 1820:
what is known as the common practice period.
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor
both together go to the making of genius.
Love, love, love,
that is the soul of genius." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
