Drive-thru music
Recordings and YouTube are convenient, but they’re missing this blanket of surround-sound that’s better than a movie theater. Plus you can’t focus (meditate) on the music at home or on the web. Concerts take patience, time, money, as well as determination. This is why CutTime is making it easy for you to discover the music. We’ll see you at the club, and hand you keys to unlock the secrets of classical music. Classical is an amazing alternative that can hang around all the other music you love. It’s just like trying new foods– so let’s get you started with an appetizer.
Q. What makes classical music classical?
A. The word classical is not so hard to unravel: its usage in music refers to ancient history. Not to be confused with classic (eg. classic rock), or classically-trained (but doesn’t play classical any more), but most classical musicians aren’t prepared to answer this most basic question above. CutTime is sharing two answers, because once you get it, we can all relax about it.
- Here is the short version: Classical antiquity most generally refers to the peaks of ancient Greek and Roman cultures; two centers of advanced science, politics and thought– 25 hundred years ago. Studied today for its philosophers and warriors, democracy and architecture, debates and ideas about form, nature and beauty, classical first died with the Roman Empire. Classical revivals in Western Europe around 1200AD and 1800 produced the Age of Enlightenment.
In music the word classical has two usages: the overall category and musicians, versus the composing standards specific to the era of Haydn, Mozart and early Beethoven and as a consequence of the Age of Enlightenment. This follows the ornamental Baroque era, but before anti-reason Romantic era.
At this website we often substitute fine art music to describe the overall category.