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The Classical era in music is compositionally defined by the balanced eclecticism of the late 18th- and early 19th-century Viennese “school” of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, who completely absorbed and individually fused or transformed the vast array of 18th-century textures and formal…. Read More. concerto.
Apr 4, 2018 · From Darkness to Light: The Renaissance Begins. During the Middle Ages, a period that took place between the fall of ancient Rome in 476 A.D. and the beginning of the 14th century, Europeans made ...
C.P.E. Bach. C.P.E. Bach, engraving by A. Stöttrup. The German counterpart of the essentially French Rococo was the empfindsamer Stil, or “sentimental style,” which flourished in the 1750s and 1760s. Its leading exponent was one of J.S. Bach’s sons, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, who served for a time at the court of Frederick the Great in ...
May 10, 2013 · The period known as “archaic” Greece begins around 800 years before the birth of Christ. This is the era of the epic poets Homer and Hesiod, and of the lyric poets Archilochus, Ibycus, Alcaeus and Sappho. What we call the _Classical_ period emerges around 500 B.C., the period of the great dramatists Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, the ...
Feb 4, 2010 · The Hellenistic period lasted from 323 B.C. until 31 B.C. Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to India, and his campaign changed the world: It spread Greek ...
e. In world history, post-classical history refers to the period from about 500 CE to 1500 CE, roughly corresponding to the European Middle Ages. The period is characterized by the expansion of civilizations geographically and the development of trade networks between civilizations. [1] [2] [3] [A] This period is also called the medieval era ...
The Parthenon, in Athens, a temple to Athena. Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece, marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars; the ...
