流派是在一定的历史时期由人们的审美观念、思想意识、欣赏爱好、文化水平等诸多主观因素决定的一种艺术风格或潮流。自中世纪后期发展而出的巴洛克音乐开始直到现在,西方音乐发展经历了很多不同的阶段:即巴洛克音乐时期、古典音乐时期、浪漫主义音乐时期、民族音乐时期、印象主义音乐时期、新音乐时期以及现代音乐时期。而每个时期都有着其鲜明的风格特点,也可以认为每个时期即是一种音乐流派。 Genre is an art style or trend determined by many subjective factors such as people’s aesthetic conception, ideological consciousness, appreciation of hobby, and cultural level in a certain historical period. Baroque music developed from the late Middle Ages up to now, the development of western music has gone through many different stages: the Baroque period, the classical period, the romantic period, the national period, the impressionist period, the new period and the Modern music period. Each period has its distinctive style characteristics, but also that each period is a music genre.