Major eras of
Western classical music
Early music
Medieval c. 500–1400
Transition to Renaissance
Renaissance c. 1400–1600
Transition to Baroque
Common practice period
Baroque c. 1600–1750
Transition to Classical
Classical c. 1730–1820
Transition to Romantic
Romantic c. 1800–1910
Transition to Modernism
Neue Musik
Modernism c. 1890–1975
Transition to Postmodernism
Postmodernism from c. 1960
Contemporary from c. 1945
 • 20th-century
 • 21st-century
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