Timeline of Western Classical Music
Medieval
(Middle
Ages)
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Modern
Before
1450
1450-1600
1600-1750
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Timeline of Western Classical Music
Medieval
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Modern
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1600-1750
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Middle
Ages
Before
1450
Medieval Period: Before 1450
Medieval Period  Before
1450
Hildegard von
Bingen
Medieval Period  Before 1450
Gregorian
Chant
Timeline of Western Classical Music
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Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Modern
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1450-1600
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The Renaissance….
Renaissance
1450-1600
Michael Pretorius:
Organ music and choral music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLpWgAgRFuQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3p6nAaOmyU&feature=related
http://www.empire.k12.ca.us/capistrano/Mike/capmusic/renaissance/MadarigalMadrigals Byrd.mid
Greensleeves http://www.empire.k12.ca.us/capistrano/Mike/capmusic/renaissance/Greenslee
ves[1].mid
Timeline of Western Classical Music
Medieval
(Middle
Ages)
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Modern
Before
1450
1450-1600
1600-1750
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The Baroque Period….
The Baroque
Period 16001750
Opera was established
during the
Baroque Period.
Music became more
complex and
ornamental.
Johannes Sebastian Bach
The Baroque
Period 16001750
Johannes
Sebastian
Bach
Recursion in Escher:
Recursion in Bach: The Fugue
Recursion in Gödel: the function, the App
Read:
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Brandenberg Concertos
Brandenberg Concerto : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9qWpa2rIg
The Well-tempered Clavier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI_xx82oTO8
The Baroque
Period 16001750
Antonio
The Four Seasons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdFHJXciAQ
Vivaldi
The Baroque
Period 16001750
George
The Messiah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_RHnQ-jgU
Frider
Timeline of Western Classical Music
Medieval
(Middle
Ages)
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Modern
Before
1450
1450-1600
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The Classical Period….
The Classical
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Lighter and
clearer sound;
Fewer
abrupt
changes.
Move from polyphony
focus on melody;
to
Musicians and artists
attempted to Emulate the
 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
ideals of Classical
 LUDWIG particularly
VAN BEETHOVEN
Antiquity,
Greece.
The Classical
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS
MOZART
Austrian
1756-1791
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUAzZNeuj34
The Classical
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LUDWIG VAN
BEETHOVEN
German
1770-1827
Beethoven, Symphony 7, Allegretto, movement 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBfKXHoSvDM&feature=related
Timeline of Western Classical Music
Medieval
(Middle
Ages)
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Modern
Before
1450
1450-1600
1600-1750
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The Romantic Period….
•Literary inspiration … Liszt's Faust Symphony
•Longer pieces
•Increased focus on melody and theme
•Sometimes more surprising than classical
music
•Easier to tell the individuality of composers
•Nationalism increased; musical forms (folk
music) borrowed from nation and lent to
nations.
•Industrial revolution – louder, stronger,
more instruments.
The Romantic Period….
Chopin (Poland)
Bizet, Debussy, Ravel , Saint-Saens, (France)
Grieg (Norway)
Dvorak (Chech)
Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schumann (Germany)
Rossini, Verdi (Italy)
Mahler, Schubert, Strauss (Austria)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci3RPAOFok4
Sebelius (Finland)
Borodin, Mussgorsky , Rimsky-Korsakov ,
Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov (Russia)
Wagner (Germany)
Timeline of Western Classical Music
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Igor Stravinsky
Schoenberg
John Cage & Marcel Duchamps (artist)
Paul Hindemith
Jaco Pastorious – referencing Stravinsky
& Sam & Dave