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1. Vague descriptions are plentiful, such as describing classical music as anything that "lasts a long time," a statement made rather moot when one considers contemporary composers who are described as classical; or music that has certain instruments like violins, which are also found in other genres.

2. Given the extremely broad variety of forms, styles, genres, and historical periods generally perceived as being described by the term "classical music," it is difficult to list characteristics that can be attributed to all works of that type.

3. The term "classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to "canonize" the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven as a golden age.

4. Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times.

5. The instruments used in most classical music were largely invented before the mid-19th century (often much earlier), and codified in the 18th and 19th centuries.

6. However, there are characteristics that classical music contains that few or no other genres of music contain.

7. European music is largely distinguished from many other non-European and popular musical forms by its system of staff notation, in use since about the 16th century.

8. Featuring FREE music, news, photos, videos, and more from 14 of history's greatest Classical composers.

9. The earliest reference to "classical music" recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from about 1836.

10. The symphony orchestra is the most widely known medium for classical music.

11. Western staff notation is used by composers to prescribe to the performer the pitch, speed, meter, individual rhythms and exact execution of a piece of music.