In historical and musicological terms, contemporary music can refer to the modern forms of art music where the artist uses emotion and expressions in making music with sometime employing the use of alternative style and various kinds of musical and percussion instruments. ... The standard orchestral instruments were established during the Classical era that became the most common instruments which included; violins, flutes and trumpets, but during the first part of the classical period a harpsichords was a popular instrument. The invention of a piano however replaced it and the woodwind secti...

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