Classical Music refers to music written and produced (mainly) in the western world beginning with the Gregorian chanting of monks in medieval Europe through to the modern day. Classical music can also more specifically refer to a smaller period between 1750 and 1830 when composers such as Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn produced extraordinarily wonderful music.

We are currently adding these pages as a new section to the website and there will no doubt be one or two errors (which will hopefully be politely pointed out by our readers). It will no doubt become much larger as we find time to add more information. We will endeavour to add more quizzes as the section expands. The illustration of the musical time-line should give you an immediate visual idea of the chronology of the individual periods we will be dealing with.

These secondary periods are also commonly referred to.

Rococo
1690-1765

Early Classical
1720-1765

Impressionist
1890-1910

Expressionist
1910-1920

It can be helpful to have a good understanding of history in general (although our little guide stays very much within the musical world) as this will inevitably give much more insight into composers lives in terms of where their inspiration came from (their contemporaries, musical and otherwise), and of course the problems they had to deal with locally and globally, because of war and politics etc.

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