High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Music of the United Kingdom refers all forms of music associated with the United Kingdom and its people since its formation in 1707. It is informed by the History of the United Kingdom as a union of four countries, each with their own musical traditions including Church music, court and popular music that we now term folk music. Church music and religious music in general had been profoundly affected by the Reformation from the sixteenth century, which curtailed many of the events associated with such music and forced the development of a distinctive national music of worship and belief. In contrast court music, although having many unique elements remained much more integrated into wider European culture, often drawing on composers born in continental Europe as it developed into modern classical music. It began to obtain clear national identities in the components of the United Kingdom towards the end of the nineteenth century, producing many composers and musicians of note and drawing on the folk tradition.