List of classical and art music traditions

Template:Short description "Classical music" and "art music" are terms that have been used to refer to music of different cultural origins and traditions. Such traditions often date to a period regarded as the "golden age" of music for a particular culture.

The following tables list music styles from throughout the world and the period in history when that tradition was developed:

Southeast Asian

Style	Earliest historical period	Notes
Gamelan	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source needed
Pinpeat	At least 6th century AD.Template:Citation needed
Mahori	At least 14th century AD.Template:Citation needed
Piphat
Pinphat

Indic

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}}

Style	Earliest historical period	Notes
Carnatic music	At least 6th century AD (as Indian classical music), split from Hindustani classical music in the 16th and 17th centuries.<ref name="Subramaniam1999">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Rp
Hindustani classical music	At least 6th century AD (as Indian classical music), split from Carnatic music in the 16th and 17th centuries.<ref name="Subramaniam1999" />Template:Sfn
Klasik	At least 6th century AD (as Indian and Hindustani classical music), split from Hindustani classical music Template:Circa.Template:Sfn<ref name="Hindustani" />	The classical tradition of Afghanistan, ultimately a descendant of Hindustani classical music.<ref name="Hindustani">Doubleday, pg. 3</ref> Developed in the 19th century by Indian musicians in Afghan courts.<ref name="Hindustani" /> Along with Hindustani music theory and instruments, Afghan classical music also uses local Pashtun elements, especially in its performance practices.<ref name="Hindustani" />
Odissi music	At least 6th century AD.Template:Citation needed

East Asian

Style	Earliest historical period	Notes
Nanguan music	At least 14th century CE.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Gagaku	6th century CE.Template:Citation needed
Jeongak	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Nhã nhạc	13th century CE.Template:Citation needed
Yayue	At least 2nd century BCE.Template:Citation needed

European

Style	Earliest historical period	Notes
Byzantine music	4th century AD.Template:Citation needed
Pibroch	At least the 17th century AD.<ref>Haddow, Alexander John (1982, 2003). The History and Structure of Ceol Mor – A Guide to Piobaireachd The Classical Music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. Glasgow: The Piobaireachd Society.</ref>
Western classical music	6th century AD.Template:Citation needed

Middle Eastern

Style	Earliest historical period	Notes
Persian classical music	At least 3rd century AD, with drastic changes in the 16th century.<ref name="EI-mhphi">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref name=":32">Template:Cite book</ref>
Arabic classical music
Andalusi classical music	9th century AD.Template:Citation needed	Likely practiced since the early 9th century, the musical tradition of Al-Andalus is notable for spreading Middle Eastern and North African musical instruments to Western Europe, where they would become staple instruments of Western tradition.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Now practiced in North Africa in the form of the Andalusi nubah,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> this tradition has also had considerable effect on Ottoman classical music, especially in the Sephardic romance and Maftirim repertoire.<ref name=":10">Template:Cite book</ref>
Ottoman classical music	At least 3rd century AD (as Persian traditional music), emerged as a unique tradition in the 17th century.<ref name="EI-mhphi" /><ref name=":32" />	Now known as Turkish Art Music or Turkish Classical Music
Shashmaqam

Sub-Saharan African

Style	Earliest historical period	Notes
Griot		The tradition of the djeli

Syncretic

Style	Earliest historical period	Notes
American gamelan	Template:CircaTemplate:Citation needed
Mahāgīta	16th or 17th century AD.<ref name=":4" />	The classical tradition of Burma seems to have begun around the late Toungoo period,<ref name=":4">Template:Cite journal</ref> with an expansion of Western-influenced repertoire during the colonial period.Template:Citation needed Organized into various forms based on tuning systems, melodic structure, rhythmic patterns and performance conventions, commonly played genres include the kyo, bwe, and Template:Transliteration.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite journal</ref>

See also

• List of opera genres

Further reading

• Template:Cite book
• Template:Cite journal