Similarities and differences between classical music and modern music

Generally speaking, the difference between classical music and modern music lies in the difference of musical language and artistic means. The former follows the traditional creative techniques such as mode, tonality and harmony function system, while the latter is to break this technique and seek new means of expression.

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1. Classical music originally refers to classical music works handed down from ancient times, and later refers to all model music works that combine profound ideological content with perfect art forms. In this sense, this concept is not limited by time and region, and highly artistic folk or professional music of different historical times, different countries and nationalities can become classical music.

2. Modern music refers to all western music creations from the end of 19 to the beginning of the 20th century. Modern music is characterized by the pursuit of exploration, development and innovation, especially the free structure, strange rhythm, discordant harmony language, complex tonality and atonality, and strange sound effects, which are often very annoying; The above originality is not pursued by all composers. Some composers advocate the perfect combination of classical music with national style and modern composition techniques to create better music works.