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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...