* Trio Sonata da Camera
* Trio Sonata da Chiesa
* Baroque dance suite
* * Allemande
* * Courante
* * * French Courante
* * * Italian Corrente
* * Sarabande
* * Gigue
* Passacaglia / Chaconne
* Baroque toccata
* Oratorio
* Mass
* Aria
* Recitative
* Opera overture
* Arietta
* Concerto
* * Keyboard concerto
* * * Piano concerto
* * Violin concerto
* * Multiple concerto (i.e. multiple soloists)
* Sonata
* Classical symphony
* Chamber sonata
* Sturm und Drang
* Theme and variations
* Lied (German art song)
* Waltz
* Minuet
* Classical scherzo
* Romantic scherzo
* Mazurka
* Polonaise
* Polka
* Miscellaneous instrumental short form
* Virtuoso
* Étude
* Programmatic music
* Tone poem
* Romantic symphony
* Bulgarian dance
* Modern toccata
* Atonality
* * Free atonality
* * Serialism
* Non-functional tonality / Non-common-practice tonality
* Film score
* Aleatoric music
* Electronic music
and much more
(incidentally this is why i think some of the finer genre subdivisions i see these days are kinda bunk)
Comments
how is it 'bunk'?
nu aria
sludge sonata
East Coast math mazurka
serious answer: consider that "uplifting trance" has basically the same specificity as "a stereotypical major-key Mozart piano sonata, complete with cadential trills and rondo finale". "trance" itself is roughly at the same specificity as "classical period piano sonata".
so it really doesn't make good sense to use the genre term "classical" side by side with a genre term like "trance". "classical" these days basically serves as a catch-all for "all that music that was written by people who are currently dead, and doesn't involve electric guitars or drum sets".
(the piece is written entirely in fourths)
though it has the possible downside of making classical music seem more inaccessible
the same way i feel when people talk around me about stuff like "unblack post-metal"
In the context of Western music it usually specifies art music rather than traditional folk music of unknown authorship, or music produced in the styles associated with the contemporary entertainment industry. It's a tradition, one which has historically been very much tied to the concept of the score, to which innumerable contemporary pieces of music may also be considered to belong.
(Somewhat confusingly, 'Classical' also denotes a specific historical period and cultural movement within that tradition, as opposed to 'Romantic' or 'Baroque'.)
Although 'unblack post-metal' is extremely niche so it's not really surprising it's not the most accessible term (i wasn't aware it existed before today, though i know what 'unblack' and 'post-metal' would imply and a quick google suggests it's real).
I just think unblack metal is fucjing hilarious
INVERT THE INVERTED CROSS
The one I can think of off the top of my head is "demonic pop" (something I use to describe the Symphogear first season ED "Meteor Light" and the Madoka Magica ED "Magia").
This is basically the entire point of my OP.
According to Aquarius Records, this track is unblack post-metal.
then again, there is "Sturm und Drang"...
Because that doesn't apply to what we popularly call "classical music" today.
Your statement is somewhat more true if we're talking about the approach to composition that some composers of (western art music's) Classical Period (~1750-1800) took, but even then, there are other composers who quickly and easily broke that mold.
Well yes, because there is no singular principle which determines what constitutes a genre of music, it can be on the basis of instrumentation, timbre, compositional structure, mood, lyrical subject matter, tempo, rhythm, key signature . . . you get the idea. Or any combination of the above.
This is fairly typical for cultural categories, like genres. They're not academic categories, they're cultural ones.