This document provides an overview of classical music, including its history, major periods, and instruments typically used. It discusses the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods of Western art music from 500-1910 AD. Some of the most prominent classical composers mentioned include Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Gershwin. The document also shares some interesting facts, such as Mendelssohn rewriting a score from memory and John Cage's 4'33" composition of silence.

1. Classical Music

2. Violin Flute
Oboe

3. French horn
Double bass Harp

4. 1. Bowed String(violin, double bass)
2. Woodwind(flute, oboe, saxophone)
3. Keyboard(piano, harpsichord)
3. Brass(trumpet, trombone)
4. Percussion(xylophone, bass drum)
5. Plucked String(harp, guitar)
6. Tongue wind(harmonica)

5. History of classical music
Periods of Western art music
Early
Medieval (500–1400)
 DEVELOPING, CHURCH MUSIC ETC.
Renaissance (1400–1600)  JOAHANN S. BACH (1685-1750)
Baroque (1600–1760)  GEORGE F. HANDEL (1685-1759)
Common practice
Classical (1750–1790)  WOLFGANG A. MOZART(1756-1791)
Romantic (1815–1910)  LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN(1770-1827)
Modern and contemporary
20th century (1900–2000)  CLAUDE DEBUSSY, IGOR STRAVINSKY,
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Contemporary (1975–present)

6. J.STRAUSS W.MOZART G.VERDI P.TCHAIKOVSKY
R.WAGNER L.BEETHOVE J.BACH

7. Some Interesting Facts
• Mendelssohn left the score for his A Midsummer Night's Dream overture
in a cab, and was able to rewrite every note from memory.
• American composer John Cage (1912–1992) composed a work in 1952
entitled 4' 33", which consists of four minutes and thirty-three seconds of
silence. Today you can buy it in ITunes store for $0,99
• The term classical music was not used until the early 19th century in order
to canonize the period from Bach to Beethoven as an
impressive, "golden" era of music.
• Beethoven was attracted to the ideals of the Enlightenment. In
1804, when Napoleon's imperial ambitions became clear, Beethoven took
hold of the title-page of his Third Symphony and scratched the name
Bonaparte out so violently that he made a hole in the paper. He later
changed the work's title to "Heroic Symphony, composed to celebrate the
memory of a great man”.