Music Periods

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Music Periods

• Middle Ages
• 500 1400 AD
• Renaissance Period
• 1400 1600 AD
• Baroque Period
• 1600 1750 AD

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Middle Ages

• Definition
• Gregorian Chant
• Minstrels
• Troubadours
• Organum
• Ars Nova
• Composers
• Instruments

3
Renaissance Period

• Definition
• Chanson
• Composers
• Instruments

4
Baroque Period

• Definition
• Orchestra
• Forms
• Composers
• Instruments

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Music Periods

• Classical
• 1750 1820
• Romantic
• 1820 1900
• Twentieth Century
• 1900 Present

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Classical Period

• Based on Greek Art
• Thematic Melodies
• Simpler Harmonies
• Homophonic Texture
• Forms
• Composers
• Instruments

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Romantic Period

• Orchestra became much larger
• Programmatic music
• Leitmotive
• Music used to spur nationalism
• Forms
• Composers
• Instruments

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Twentieth Century

• Music was more atonal (no set key)
• Music was more dissonant
• Music was more mathematical (12 tone row)
• Composers

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Next Music Period

• Since we are in the Twenty First Century, we do
  not know what the next Music Period will be
  called.