Western music
 

Western music
Western music is music, popular or scholarly, practiced in European and American countries, or European influence, and / or North American and / or South American, from Charlemagne to the present day. Its main features are:
its age (about a thousand years)
dimension of polyphonic
the rating system and the importance attached to it as opposed to the music of oral tradition,
Finally, the prominence that Western music has come to occupy across the world, often at the expense of other genres.
The various branches of Western music will be addressed by the timing of their appearance.