In European art music, the common practice period was the period of about 250 years during which the tonal system was regarded as the only basis for composition...

Music" (either a dominant ninth or dominant thirteenth). During the common practice period of Western classical music, composers orchestrating chords that...

to write in the style of the common practice period, or tonal music. Theory, even of music of the common practice period, may take other forms. Musical...

includes many but not all tonal characteristics of the European common practice period, usually known as "classical music". "All harmonic idioms in popular...

dominant/subdominant character of this voicing. In the common practice period, the root, 7th, 9th, and 11th are the most common factors present in the V11 chord, with...

brief English Madrigal School. The Baroque period (1580–1750) saw the relative standardization of common-practice tonality, as well as the increasing importance...

species counterpoint instruction (1725–present), and during the common practice period, consecutive fifths were strongly discouraged. This was primarily...

8′ and 16′ stops and wider pipe scales. These practices created a warmer, richer sound than was common in the 18th century. Organs began to be built in...

K397: Cadences in jazz are usually simply called cadences, as in common practice harmony. However, a certain category of cadence is referred to as a...

the piece is C major. Popular songs and classical music from the common practice period are usually in one key. Longer pieces in the classical repertoire...

a central importance in Western music, particularly that of the common practice period and in popular music. In Carnatic music, it is known as Sankarabharanam...

Non-chord tones are most often discussed in the context of the common practice period of classical music, but they can be used in the analysis of other...

chord can be represented by the integer notation {0, 3, 6}. In the common practice period, the diminished triad is considered dissonant because of the diminished...

Fétis tuned the chord 4:5:6:7:9. In the common practice period, "the root, 3rd, 7th, and 9th are the most common factors present in the V9 chord," with...

interact with each other. Often, especially in the context of the common practice period, most or all of the melody and harmony of a musical work is built...

John's "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word", which makes, "a nod to the common practice... by the use of F♯ [the leading tone in G minor] as the penultimate...

The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820. The classical period falls between the Baroque and Romantic periods....

boundaries of the 19th-century styles that were part of the earlier common practice period. Neoclassicism and expressionism came mostly after 1900. Minimalism...

prevalent in the tonal idiom of Western music beginning in the common practice period: the use of diatonic functions for tonicization. Secondary chords...

one of the basic building blocks of tonal music in the Western common practice period and Western pop, folk and rock music. It is considered consonant...

triad is one of the basic building blocks of tonal music and the common practice period. In Western music, a minor chord, in comparison, "sounds darker...

reproduction period instruments as part of the performance of Early music, such as the revival of the harpsichord or the viol. The practice of "historically...

developing during the Renaissance and in much of the common practice period, especially in the Baroque period. In Western pedagogy, counterpoint is taught through...

producing the all-important dominant seventh chord. During the Common Practice Period the minor seventh was defined as a dissonance requiring resolution...

after the unison, octave, perfect fifth, and perfect fourth. In the common practice period, thirds were considered interesting and dynamic consonances along...

the thirteenth, an interval of a major seventh. In the common practice period the "most common" pitches present in V13 chord are the root, 3rd, 7th, and...

Western common practice period. This includes folk music, non-Western music, and Western music from before or after the common practice period. Klezmer...

sometimes distinguished from harmony. Typically, in the classical common practice period, a dissonant chord (chord with tension) "resolves" to a consonant...

place. While in both most popular music and classical music of the common practice period pitch and duration are of primary importance in melodies, the contemporary...

what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period. Following the traditional division of the Middle Ages, medieval...