HISTORY OF MUSIC
HISTORY OF MUSIC
21 ST CENTURY
Contemporary
Important composers include Nico Muhly, Roxanna Panufnik and others.
The technology and the internet are important resources
The combination of classical music and multimedia.
Important influences include rock ,pop,jazz
Since the year 200
20 TH CENTURY
Postmodern
Postmodern music still does not primarily define itself in opposition to modernist.
1930 - present
Modern
A period of diverse reactions in challenge and interpreting older categories music
A key composer was Richard Strauss
1890 - 1975
Expressionist
Adorno says that "the truthfulness of subjestive feeling without illusions, disguises or euphemisms"
A key composer was Arnold Schoenberg
1908 - 1950
Impresionismo
A key composer was Enrique Granados
Music focuses on suggestion and atmosphere
1890 - 1925
ROMANTIC MUSIC ERA
Famous early Romantic composers include Beethoven , Chopin and others .
The music became more explicitly expressive and programmatic.
It is related to Romanticism.
1780 to 1910
CLASSICAL MUSIC ERA
key composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
style galant
Classical music has a lighter , clearer texture than Baroque music and is less complex
1730 to 1820
BAROQUE MUSIC
Key composer :Johann Sebastian Bach
The creation of common-practice tonality
Baroque music forms a major portion of the classical music canon
1600 to 1750
RENAISSANCE MUSIC
Vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe
1400 to 1600
MEDIEVAL MUSIC
The connection between man and God was established through music.
Performing songs in instrumental pieces and liturgical music(sacred).
It includes solely vocal music
500 A.D. to 1400
BIBLICAL PERIOD
it was an essential part of training in the schools of the prophets (1Sam,10:5).
Music was now for the first time systematically cultivated.
The Hebrews were much given to the cultivation of music
ANCIENT MUSIC
The oldest known song was written in cuneiform,3400 years ago from Ugarit in Syria.
All music produced in literate cultures
PREHISTORIC MUSIC
All music produced in preliterate cultures
Primitive music (prehistory)
