ocr: The Classical deal THE CLASSICAL IDEAL THE NEW MUSICAL LANGUAGE In every known field of thought, around the year 1750, some kind ofrevolution was taking] splace. Certainly the times were conducive to change. The spread of colonialism and the rising economic importance of colonial - lands, the waning political power of the Catholic church, and the growing awareness of: mankind's: right to some degree of social and political independence:all these played an important role in the winds of change that blew strongly, midway through the eighteenth century, and brought the civilized world to al new w ...
