Classical may refer to:

European antiquity

* Classical antiquity, a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea * Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity * Classical mythology, the body of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans *

Classical tradition The Western classical tradition is the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures, especially the post-classical West, involving texts, imagery, objects, ideas, institutions, monuments, architecture, cultural artifacts, ritua ...

, the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures *

Classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

, study of the language and culture of classical antiquity, particularly its literature * Classicism, a high regard for classical antiquity in the arts

Music and arts

* Classical ballet, the most formal of the ballet styles *

Classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...

, a variety of Western musical styles from the 9th century to the present *

Classical guitar The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor o ...

, a common type of acoustic guitar * Classical Hollywood cinema, a visual and sound style in the American film industry between 1927 and 1963 * Classical Indian dance, various codified art forms whose theory can be traced back to 400 BC *

Classical period (music) The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820. The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music, but a more sophistic ...

, a period of increased interest in classicism from 1750 to 1825 * Classical unities, rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's ''Poetics'' * ''Classical'' (album), a 1997 album by Wolf Hoffmann *''

A Classical ''A Classical'' (stylized as ''Classical'') is an orchestral compilation album by Ayumi Hamasaki, released January 8, 2013 by Avex Trax. The album consists of classical arrangements of her past works, rearranged by Kousuke Yamashita. It was r ...

'', a 2013 album by Ayumi Hamasaki

Language

* Classical language, any language with a literature that is considered classical **

Classical Arabic Classical Arabic ( ar, links=no, ٱلْعَرَبِيَّةُ ٱلْفُصْحَىٰ, al-ʿarabīyah al-fuṣḥā) or Quranic Arabic is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notab ...

, the Arabic language in which the Qur'an is written **

Classical Armenian Classical Armenian (, in Eastern Armenian pronunciation: Grabar, Western Armenian: Krapar; meaning "literary anguage; also Old Armenian or Liturgical Armenian) is the oldest attested form of the Armenian language. It was first written down at ...

, the oldest attested form of the Armenian language ** Classical Chinese, the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period ** Classical French, the French language as systematised in the 17th and 18th centuries ** Classical Latin, the Latin language used by the ancient Romans **

Classical Nahuatl Classical Nahuatl (also known simply as Aztec or Nahuatl) is any of the variants of Nahuatl spoken in the Valley of Mexico and central Mexico as a ''lingua franca'' at the time of the 16th-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. During the s ...

, the language spoken by Aztec nobles in the Valley of Mexico at the time of the 16th-century Spanish conquest

Science and mathematics

Classical economics Classical economics, classical political economy, or Smithian economics is a school of thought in political economy that flourished, primarily in Britain, in the late 18th and early-to-mid 19th century. Its main thinkers are held to be Adam Smith ...

, school of economics developed in the late 18th and early 19th century *

Classical logic Classical logic (or standard logic or Frege-Russell logic) is the intensively studied and most widely used class of deductive logic. Classical logic has had much influence on analytic philosophy. Characteristics Each logical system in this class ...

, a class of formal logics that have been most intensively studied and most widely used *

Classical mathematics In the foundations of mathematics, classical mathematics refers generally to the mainstream approach to mathematics, which is based on classical logic and ZFC set theory. It stands in contrast to other types of mathematics such as constructive m ...

, mathematics constructed and proved on the basis of classical logic and set theory * Classical mechanics, the set of physical laws describing the motion of bodies under the action of a system of forces *

Classical physics Classical physics is a group of physics theories that predate modern, more complete, or more widely applicable theories. If a currently accepted theory is considered to be modern, and its introduction represented a major paradigm shift, then the ...

, the study of physics before the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics

Other uses

* Classical liberalism, a political philosophy and ideology belonging to liberalism * Classical conditioning, a kind of learning that occurs when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus *Classical time control, a category of time control used in chess * The Classical, a defunct American sports website

European antiquity

Music and arts

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