Noun
the artistic style of ancient Greek art with its emphasis on proportion and harmony
Source: WordNetThe buffoonery of Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart is only an exaggeration of an essential quality of the classical style. This style was, in its origins, basically a comic one. Charles Rosen
The creation of a classical style was not so much the achievement of an ideal as the reconciliation of conflicting ideals-the striking of an optimum balance between them. Charles Rosen
The musical language which made the classical style possible is that of tonality, which was not a massive, immobile system but a living, gradually changing language from its beginning. It had reached a new and important turning point just before the style of Haydn and Mozart took shape. Charles Rosen
Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan