Intro to musical Eras - 1st class

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Eras of Music

2. Eras of Music
Medieval 600-1450 religion
a cappella
Renaissance 1450-1600
Baroque 1600-1750
harpsichord Bach died
Rococo 1725-1775
charm + delight
Classical 1759-1825
Symphony
Romantic 1825-1900
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20 th Century 1900-2000
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5. Medieval
600-1450
Voice
A Cappella
Religious
Monophonic one line of music
The rise of Polyphony more than one line
Plainchant intonation of prayers
Motet 2-3 part music with plain chant as structure
Troubadours and Trouvères
went from town to town entertaining nobles

6. Renaissance1450-1600
Voice
Polyphony
Rise of Secular Music
Humanism
End of Feudal system
Rise of named composers!
Jasquin Desprez
Claudio Monteverdi
Guillaume Du Fay

8. Baroque 1600-1750
Fancy
Busy
Harpsichord
The rise of Harmony
Johann Sebastian Bach
Antonio Vivaldi
George Frideric Handel

9. Rococo
1725-1775
Reaction to Baroque
Charm and Delight
Homophonic texture
Francious Couperin
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Carl Phillip Emanual Bach

10. Classical
1759-1825
Refined, Elegant
Strings
Simple, Singable
Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig Beethoven

12. Romantic 1825-1900
Chromatic
More instruments
Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion
Piano
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Frédéric Chopin
Franz Liszt
Modest Mussorgsky
Johannes Brahms

13. th
20 Century
1900-2000
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Academic
Atonal
US and France
John Cage
Claude Debussy
Igor Stravinsky
Arnold Schoenberg
Steve Reich

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