Let

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Music of the Times

• Lets sit back and take a ride back in time. See
  and hear where the music we love came from.
  Enjoy!!

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Renaissance1420-1600

• Music
• -polyphonic
• -dance music
• -instrumental music
• -English Madrigal
• -Sacred music motes and Mass
• Musicians
• Josquin des Prez
• Giovannie Da Palestrina
• William Byrd
• Thomas Morley
• Michael Praetorius

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Renaissance

• Historical Themes
• Invention of printing press, music more
  accessible
• Beginning of the change from the feudal system to
  the modern state
• Shakespearian plays
• Era of Michelangelos paintings and sculpture
• Music moving outside of the confines of the
  church
• Luther began Protestant Reformation
• Columbus and Magellan expand view of the world

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Baroque1600-1750

• Music
• Operas source of entertainment
• Ortorio
• Concerto
• Harpsichord
• Formalized dances
• Voices and instruments mixed
• Instrument forms of concerto, sonata
• Musicians
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Donenico Scarlatti
• George Fredric Handel

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Baroque

• Historical Themes
• Scientists, Galileo and Newton used observation
  and experiments to develop hypotheses about why
  things happen.
• Got its name from the ornate style of
  architecture of the time.
• Monarchs(kings) began to employ composers of
  their courts.
• Development of holdings in the New World by
  English , French and Spanish.

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Classical1750-1820

• Music
• Dances
• Symphonies
• Sonatas
• Minuets
• Gavotte
• String quartets
• Piano main instrument for composers
• Musicians
• Franz Joseph Haydn
• Wolfgang A. Mozart
• Franz Schubert

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Classical

• Historical Themes
• Industrial revolution led to increases in
  material goods and wealth.
• Art and architecture cleaner and uncluttered
  modeling that of the classical Greeks.
• Aristocracies began replacing monarchs and the
  church as music patrons.
• Writers such as Rousseau and Voltaire spread
  ideas of the philosophy of enlightenment.
• Time of the American Revolution.

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Romantic1820-1900

• Music
• Operas and program music
• Romances from Mid Evil times
• Poetry and stories of heroes
• Dynamics wider, tempos more extreme
• Musicians
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Robert Schumann
• Frederic Chopin
• Franz Liszt
• Johannes Brahms

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Romantic

• Historical Themes
• The revolutions of the 18th century brought about
  a new social order
• Italy and Central Europe freed from foreign
  control
• Charles Darwin introduces his theory about the
  origin of species
• Specialized music training institutions developed
• Invention of new instruments of the orchestra

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20th Century

• Music
• All sounds are possible
• Mixes elements from multiple cultures
• Many new insturments
• Complex rhythms
• Jazz, blues, folk, rock-n-roll, country
• Musicians
• Scott Joplin
• Arnold Schoenbery
• Igor Stravinsky
• Serge Prokofiev
• Duke Ellington

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20th Century
HISTORICAL THEMES Progression of travel from
earliest cars, jets, and space travel, with the
development of technology creating global
communication. Decline of totalitarian cultures,
Adolph Hitler and Germany, Russian and Chinese
revolutions, and movements for freedom and
democracy in Poland, and South Africa. World
Wars I and II, Korean and Vietnam conflict, and
Desert Storm.
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Listening time.
Do you recognize? What time period could it be
from?
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Credits Page. Information gathered from various
books and websites as follows www.ipl.org/exhibi
t/mushit/ www.essentials of music.com/main.html/
The Composers Specials by Betsy Henderson