Sentence examples for European classical music from inspiring English sources

European classical music changed greatly in the 20th century.

European classical music was brought to the United States during the colonial era.

European classical music is rooted in the traditions of European art, ecclesiastical and concert music.

But that repertory, expansive and diverse as it is, still reflects a single musical lineage: that of European classical music as it has been handed down since Haydn.

This was a perfect complement for Mr. Rubalcaba's studies at Cuba's musical conservatory, where he learned European classical music.

But he was never to be a jazzing-the-classics squarehead; he once called the influence of European classical music "only one of the means to an end".

In the excerpt below, they discuss the ways in which Indian and European classical musics bear upon ideas of personal freedom.

So I find it refreshing that Bernard Haitink has taken a poke at Mahler and his aficionados in the European classical-music magazine Das Orchester.

The two composers could evoke ancient civilizations partly because their musical means were extensive but also because, fired by Stravinsky's "Sacre du Printemps," they had broken decisively with the European classical-music culture from which they had come.

No longer a European patrimony, classical music is a polyglot business with a global audience.

They argue instead for the pre-eminence of the "universal" mainstream, by which they mean European-derived classical music, and contend that efforts like Dr. Floyd's, to advance the music of a particular group, are more social and racial than esthetic.