classicalの意味・使い方・発音

classical

英 ['klæsɪk(ə)l] 美 ['klæsɪkl]

クラシック

クラシックとは、意味や使われ方が狭義または一般的なものである。

classical (adj.): 1590s, "of the highest rank" (originally in literature), from classic + -al (1). Classical music (1836) was defined originally against romantic music.
[I]n general, as now used, the term classical includes the composers active in instrumental music from somewhere about 1700 to say 1830. Hence the list includes among the great names those of Bach, his sons, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi, Dussek, Pleyel, Cramer, etc. The next step beyond the term classical is "modern romantic," the composers of which school may be taken to include all the writers for pianoforte from about 1829 (when Mendelssohn published the first "Songs without Words") down to the present. The term romantic in this sense means strongly marked, extraordinary, intending to tell stories and the like. ["Music, Its Ideals and Methods," W.S.B. Mathews, 1897]
But already by 1880s it was acknowledged the term had a double sense: Music that had withstood the test of time, as well as music of a style contrasted to "romantic." Later (early 20c.) it was contrasted to jazz (in this sense more often with reference to the orchestras than to the music itself). Still later in contrast to popular music generally (mid-20c.).

1. The images were Gothic or Byzantine rather than classical .: これらのイメージは古典式ではなくゴシック式またはビザンチン式に属しています。

2.A performer in evening dress plays classical selections on the violin.: タキシード姿のパフォーマーがバイオリンでクラシックをいくつか演奏した。

3.The radio station has to include a substantial proportion of classical music.: このラジオ局は大量のクラシック音楽を放送しなければならない。

4.Gardiner has pursued relentlessly high standards in performing classical music.: ガードナーはクラシック演奏の高水準をたゆまず追求してきた。

5.Marsalis has a formidable reputation in both jazz and classical music.: マサリスはジャズとクラシックの分野で非常に高い人気がある。