•Violin family of stringed instruments took the form generally seen today
•Opera as a staged musical drama began to differentiate itself from earlier musical and dramatic forms
Classical music
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Styles from the whole world and the period in history
• European classical music • Chinese traditional music • Indian classical music • Persian classical music • Japanese court music
• Increasing interest in music by the
• Musical forms began to break from the Classical era forms, with free-form pieces like nocturnes（夜曲）, fantasias（幻想 曲）
• Musical institutions emerged from the control of wealthy patrons, as composers and musicians could construct lives independent of the nobility.
early music period源自Baroque period
Medieval (500–1400)
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