1. Classical Music Pop Music Folk Music
It´s written in scores. It´s usually recorded and listened to on It´s transmitted orally, from
the radio or at home. generation to generation. Because of
this, it doesn´t need a score until its
songs begin to be forgotten.
It´s usually listened to in
concerts.
It´s mainly for a younger audience and Everyone can participate.
during the concert the focus is on the
It´s made for a select public visual aspects of the performance. ( To maintain its appeal it has been
and this public has to be in transformed into more of a spectacle
silence in the concerts. The image of the pop stars is very for the audience).
important.
It´s said that it´s related to
an elite group of people.
What do you think about it?
Sometimes, the public becomes involved The audience often becomes
in the performance as part of the show. involved in the performance as part
of the spectacle.
When it´s played by an Usually, the singer is the leader. Everybody knows the compositions,
orchestra, the conductor is so everybody can participate by
the guide. playing, singing or dancing.
There is a lot of Vocal music predominates. The songs Vocal music predominates. It´s
instrumental music. It is deal with social and young peoples´ related to the events found in the
elegant and looks for beauty problems. It keeps to a formal structure calendar or to the important
in simplicity, proportion “verse-chorus-verse” presented in a moments in someone´s life. It´s
and balance. Pieces are simple way. Voice is predominant in the usually simple melodies with a short
very elaborate. first place and has a lineal and repeated sentence structure, in verses and with
a chorus.
percussion.
2. It needs musicians with Self-taught musicians play or sing it and Traditional instruments are used.
experience. electric instruments are used.
Classical instruments are
used.
The composers are famous
and professional musicians
in the History of Music. The Pieces are anonymous. The
performers are not usually composers are unknown.
the composers of the pieces The songs aren´t usually composed by one
that they play. person. The composer aren´t usually
classically trained. The performers are not
usually the composers of the songs that
they play.
It can change depending on It exists all over the world and it
culture. (European and varies according to place.
Western Classical Music, It isn´t identified with specific countries.
Indian Classical Music,
Chinese and Japanese
Classical Music) .
It doesn´t lose its appeal
over time although it has
undergone many changes It varies frequently according to fashion. It withstand the passing of time.
throughout history.
Por Pablo López González- 1ºE
