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Middle Ages (also referred to as medieval music): 800-1400. periods and falls between Classical Antiquity and the Renaissance. Early medieval music to 1000: mainly plainsongs (chants) written in Latin for the church. notation: neumes --groups of notes in symbols, showing the direction of the melodic patterns.
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History of Music but a brief survey of Western classical music since 1000 AD. It is an attempt to put the composers and composi-tions into a historical context, for, like its companion art forms, music reflects the era and events in which it was written. Music can speak to us with even greater power and resonance if we hear it as part of a continu-
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Though we can assume that music began far before 1150, the Medieval period is the first in which we can be sure as to how music sounded during this time. Most notated manuscripts from the Medieval period came from the church or places connected to the church, and so most pieces have a religious subject. Instruments used during this time included th...
The Renaissance brought significantly increased amounts of harmony and polyphony into music, as most composers were focused on choral music. Religious music continued to flourish throughout the entire Renaissance period, including new forms such as masses, anthems, psalms, and motets. Some composers of sacred music began to adopt secular forms (suc...
Expanding upon the end of the Renaissance period, the Baroque period saw the creation of writing music in a particular key. However, the Baroque period is commonly known for complex pieces and intricate harmonies. Still, this period laid the groundwork for the next 300 yearsof music. The idea of the modern orchestra was born, along with opera, the ...
The term “Classical Music” has two meanings 1. The broader meaning includes all Western art music from the Medieval era to the 2000s. 2. The specific meaning refers to the music from the 1750s to the early 1820s. We are discussing the specificmeaning in this section. The Classical period expanded upon the Baroque period, adding a majorly influentia...
Beethoven and Schubert bridged the gap between the Classical and Romantic periods of music. Just as one might assume from the word “romantic,” this period took Classical music and added overwhelming amounts of intensity and expression. As the period developed, composers gradually let go of heavily structured pieces and gravitated towards drama and ...
20th Century and 21st Century can be broken down into even smaller periods. 1. Impressionist:1890 – 1925 2. Expressionist:1908 – 1950 3. Modern:1890 – 1975 4. Postmodern:1930 – present 5. Contemporary:1945 – present However, these sub-genres are normally lumped into one large category since there are so many diverse and opposing styles. Each period...
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The book's main chapters provide a overview and history of music in the western world; starting with an introductory chapter about the 'fundamental' of music and proceeding chronologically from the music of the middle ages through popular music in the US in the 20th century.
The story of how humanity arrived at its current relationship with music is the subject of the Big Think interview with Spitzer above, in which he covers 40,000 years in 8 minutes: “from bone flutes to Beyoncé.”. We begin with his thesis that “we in the West” think of music history as the history of ...
Timeline. 2000 BCE. The first examples of the lyre in the Bronze Age Aegean occur in the Cyclades and on Minoan Crete . c. 1700 BCE. The earliest written hint to a hand-drum: the Jewish tof played by Moses ’s sister, Miriam, in Exodus. 1420 BCE - 1300 BCE. Clay dancing figures including a rare female lyre player are made in Minoan Palaikastro.
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