Western Music

Western music may refer to:

  • Classical music, a genre of art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music from the 10th century onward. The canonical common practice period was from 1550 to 1900, although the style continues to be performed and developed to this day.
  • Music of Western culture (see Music).
  • Western music (North America), a style of music that celebrates the life of the cowboy. Originally a form of folk music with English, Irish, Scottish, and Mexican influences that developed in the western areas of the United States and Canada.

Famous quotes containing the words western and/or music:

    “But go, and if you listen she will call,
    Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal—
    Luke Havergal.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “As for the terms good and bad, they indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking, or notions which we form from the comparison of things with one another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him who mourns; for him who is deaf, it is neither good nor bad.”
    —Baruch (Benedict)