Art music

Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music^[1]) is music considered to be of high phonoaesthetic value.^[2] It typically implies advanced structural and theoretical considerations^[3] or a written musical tradition.^[4] In this context, the terms "serious" or "cultivated" are frequently used to present a contrast with ordinary, everyday music (i.e. popular and folk music, also called "vernacular music").^[2] Many cultures have art music traditions; in the Western world, the term typically refers to Western classical music.

^ Bruno Nettl (1995). Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music. University of Illinois Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-252-06468-5.
^ ^a ^b Eisentraut, Jochen (2013). The Accessibility of Music: Participation, Reception, and Contact. Cambridge University Press. pp. 8, 196. ISBN 978-1-107-02483-0.
^ Jacques Siron, "Musique Savante (Serious music)", Dictionnaire des mots de la musique (Paris: Outre Mesure): 242. ISBN 2-907891-22-7
^ Denis Arnold, "Art Music, Art Song", in The New Oxford Companion to Music, Volume 1: A–J (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983): 111. ISBN 0-19-311316-3

[Nettl1995-1] Bruno Nettl (1995). Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music. University of Illinois Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-252-06468-5.

[Eisentraut2013-2] Eisentraut, Jochen (2013). The Accessibility of Music: Participation, Reception, and Contact. Cambridge University Press. pp. 8, 196. ISBN 978-1-107-02483-0.

[Siron_p._242-3] Jacques Siron, "Musique Savante (Serious music)", Dictionnaire des mots de la musique (Paris: Outre Mesure): 242. ISBN 2-907891-22-7

[Arnold,_Denis_1983_p._111-4] Denis Arnold, "Art Music, Art Song", in The New Oxford Companion to Music, Volume 1: A–J (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983): 111. ISBN 0-19-311316-3

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