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Interesting anecdote that I am not entirely sure is true, is that “classical music” genre got its name because music was the only art that we didn’t know how it
by soneca 2y ago
Interesting anecdote that I am not entirely sure is true, is that “classical music” genre got its name because music was the only art that we didn’t know how it was in Ancient Greece and Rome, where the term “classic” is usually applied to.
So, by the time people were rediscovering the music of Bach and that type of music was growing in popularity, people decided to use “classical” for that sort of music.
- tgv 2y agoIt's somewhat "not even wrong." It's true the term classical refers back to the classical period, but it was explicitly adopted following Baroque. The style of the late 18th, early 19th century was named Classical. The rediscovery of Bach is unrelated. Western music history roughly goes like: early polyphony, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern (where e.g. Romantic has subdivisions, and you could argue Modern is over or has many subdivisions, etc.). The current use of the term "classical music" refers to all serious, composed music.