Music Eras

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Music Eras

• By Nicole Miller

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Middle Ages (450-1450)

• Start of musical notation.
• Church music was on rise.
• Monophonic and polyphonic style used.
• Composer Guillaume De Machaut (Messe de Nostre
  Dame)

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Renaissance (1450-1600)

• Views of earth changing
• Shared similar styles
• Popular composer Claudio
• Monteverdi, Josquin Desprez
• (Miserere Mei)

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Baroque (1600-1750)

• Beginning of the new world.
• Roles of music were expanding
• Melodies were ornate.
• Voice and Instrument were becoming more popular
  used together.
• Popular Composer Handel (The Messiah)

Click on pic. For more info on Handel
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Classical (1750-1825)

• Was during the Industrial Revolution.
• Was simpler when it came to textures and
  melodies.
• Piano was very popular.
• Composers Ludwig Van Beethoven, Mozart

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Romantic (1825-1900)

• European Nationalism
• Large range of sound.
• Harmonies very dissonant
• Emotional melodies.
• Popular composer Franz Shubert (The Lovely Mill)

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20th Century

• Global Communications
• World music becomes a genre
• Melodies are long and abstract or short
• New types of sounds are available.
• Popular composer Charles Ives

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Great music links
Essentials of Music - This site contains
useful information on the actual history of
music.
www.teoria.com - This site offers a lot of
info with reading and understanding music
notation.