Disputatio:Musica classica

Classical music vs. classical period

The text here currently refers to the Classical period of music, not the classical genre of music. I am moving the text to Aetas Classica (musica) and writing a new article. --SECUNDUS ZEPHYRUS 04:42, 10 Septembris 2010 (UTC)

Curious terms indeed. A naive reader might think that classical music must be the music of the classical period—but noooooooooo! The classical period was the time from roughly 1760 to roughly 1828, which later listeners looked back to as a standard of excellence; this attribution by a later age is a historical fact, so just reporting that news isn't problematic. Classical music, however, is such a vague concept, with so many cultural ramifications, that making a reliably comprehensive definition is exceedingly difficult. It has been regarded as "art music" (thus Wikipedia), but that attribution ignores that almost all of it was made for practical purposes, and hardly any of it was made according to an ideal of "art for art's sake." It has been regarded by some as "music of the upper classes," but that definition rests on another problematic idea, that of social classes. It has been held to be more "complex" than other kinds of music, but that notion too has been challenged. IacobusAmor 12:39, 10 Septembris 2010 (UTC)

Timeline

I've added a timeline of composers, taken from the Dutch page. I want to record here a curious fact: the <timeline> tool does not handle redlinks. It makes a link to the page even if the page doesn't exist -- see for example Gulielmus Machaut, on whom we don't at the moment have a page. A. Mahoney (disputatio) 12:11, 20 Aprilis 2012 (UTC)

He was hiding at Gulielmus de Mascandio. Lesgles (disputatio) 21:44, 23 Septembris 2014 (UTC)