History of Music Have a seat Periods of

History of Music Have a seat

Periods of Music History • • Antiquity Medieval Renaissance Baroque Classical Romantic Modern Before 400 A. D. 400 -1450 -1600 -1750 -1825 -1900 -present

Antiquity • Very little is known about composers or their music. • The “Epitaph of Seikelos” is a rare example that was written on a tombstone.

Medieval 400 -1450 Music was very simple Gregorian Chant Monophony vs. Polyphony • Beginnings of Notationall written by hand. • •

Medieval Leonin • 1150 -1201? • The Father of polyphonic organum Francesco Landini • 1325 -1397 • Led the Italian Ars Nova

Renaissance 1450 -1600 Rebirth Polyphony Sacred- religious music, music of the church • Secular- music of the people, common music • •

Renaissance Giovanni di Palestrina • 1450 -1521 • First master of polyphonic music • 105 masses • 250 motets Josquin Desprez • • • 1525 -1594 Netherlands Masses Motets Chansons and frottole

Baroque • 1600 -1750 • Harpsichord • Rebel against Renaissance • Ornamentation • Servant Musicians • • • J. S. Bach Claudio Monteverdi Antonio Vivaldi Domenico Scarlatti George Frideric Handel

Classical 1750 -1825 Clean and Uncluttered Vienna center of Music Standardized forms Symphonies, sonatas, string quartets • Aristocracies replaced monarchs as patrons • • • Franz Joseph Haydn • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Ludwig van Beethoven • Franz Schubert

Romantic • 1825 -1900 • Added new emotional depth to classical forms • Piano music flourished • Nationalistic • Expanded orchestra • Longer pieces • Chromatics • • Frederic Chopin Giuseppe Verdi Richard Wagner Peter Tchaikovsky

Modern • 1900 to present • Unusual and unorthodox harmonies • Impressionism • • • Bela Bartok Gustav Mahler Igor Stravinsky Sergei Rachmaninoff John Cage