Music can also be called "cultured", but in the modern concept, all music is the product of a culture, understanding this, the set of ideas, religious beliefs, science, arts and customs that shape and characterize the social state of a people or a race.
Anyway, what defines this musical style is exclusive. It is one that is not popular or folk. It is performed by few, with the idea that appeals to many, but these are usually not many in general. Its authors and implementers have studied a long career in special schools, conservatories, and listeners in general have been induced to taste it a family tradition, which then can be grown. Requires some personal initiative to get to it. Something that is final if it has been able to transcend the boundaries of time and space, is universal. The message of classical music has evolved in parallel to Western thought. Its most notable feature is: not static, is in continuous replacement of forms and modes, always seeking new languages, new forms of expression, which does not happen in the music of other cultures.
Despite the limitations of not being popular or folk, classical music is confined to a geographical area, the western culture, ie the European peoples and their cultural heirs, first the Americans and then some others. There is also a temporal limitation, referring to the term "classical music" to that created from the Renaissance and the cultural phenomenon that is brighter than it has been in the history of mankind, only comparable in scope, to science of post-Renaissance Europe.
Its origins lie in the medieval and Renaissance musics, being excluded from the classification of these "classic". Also excluded Eastern and African, while recognizing their values and contributions. Western classical music moods tells us very deeply rooted in Europeans and their spiritual heirs.
Normally means classical music, the brief period from 1770-1810. Classicism is an artistic period which tends to express the idea of formal perfection of reality, with the most absolute power, that is, it tends to express the world as being beautiful, perfect and giving through art sense of perfection, tranquility, ideal. This is why it tends to accentuate the shape of things and not ideology or content. In this way we obtain reflect perfection. Classicism gives a man such as harmonic and humanity is reflected as a perfect society without problems. This leads to a contradiction that arises during the French Revolution, a period of breaks, changes of all kinds and not reflected in its aesthetics. The classical man is thus the ideal of beauty. The only thing that tends to express.
