what does the word "classical" mean, as applied to music/art/archit..from 1750-1800 ?

any good books on this?

just a side note
Might want to try Age of Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

same timeframe, Piano and Violin were perfected
Classicism resulted in architectural designs drawing on the greek and roman types of structures.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=classical

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=classical

:rolleyes:.. yes thank you :p... books !... novels, stories.. not definitions...

Well in futurama, classical music is stuff like Sir-Mix-Alot's I like big butts

any good books on this?
In terms of music, the "classical" era was just prior to the Industrial Rev. After that, they were able to build all these instruments, so it was a new era (Romantic). It's not so much dates as it is style - many classical musicians wrote romantic music and vis versa.

"classical" in terms of physics is the idea that the universe is ideal and can therefore have finite solutions.

classical is just another term meaning stuff created by old, dead, white guys.