Similarities and differences between classical music and traditional music and pop music

First, classical music has two meanings. 1. Broadly speaking, all the elegant and beautiful music that existed in the past can be called classical music. 2. In a narrow sense, it is/kloc-music composed of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in the 8th century, which is called classical music.

Second, traditional music. From the perspective of ethnomusicology, traditional music refers to music with national characteristics and reflecting national cultural information, which is called traditional music. China traditional music can be divided into the following four categories: 1, court music 2, folk music, literati music and religious music.

Third, pop music. The so-called pop music, the accurate concept should be commercial music, that is, music created for profit. Its commerciality is primary and its artistry is secondary.

Similarities and differences: they all have the same basic natural attributes of music, and they are all musical sequences with thoughts and regular arrangements. However, their social attributes and functions are far from each other.