mentioned classical music or music for the heroic era you knew very little to nothing about the subject. The only thing you knew was that it was music from a long time ago and that Beethoven was the only artist you could name. So, let me enlighten you on what classical music is and the era it comes from. The term classical is something that has a wide and long-lasting appeal. In music, when a piece was written from between about 1750 to 1825 it was considered classical or from the Baroque era. The two most
IN1 7/15/15 After the Romantic era of music came the era of modernism. While modernism itself has the connotation of being “now” or “current” the phrase actually refers to the rise of particular musical styles during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One of these styles of music was Jazz music, a style of playing that involves a great amount of emotion and connection with the music. Jazz music itself splintered into many different genres of music. One of these genres that inherited
Empire, in 450 the Medieval Era of music began. Early medieval music was influenced by the Roman Catholic Church with most compositions being sacred and not secular. Gregorian Chant was a melody set to sacred texts and is sung without accompaniments. There was also no meter, monotone texture, narrow pitch range and varied melody movements. Hildegard of Bingen was a female composer who wrote many Gregorian Chants, one being Kyrie the first part of the Mass. As far as secular music, the troubadours and trouveres
Music throughout the eras have differed and changed since the beginning of time. Each era has something special about it that is different from the last era, which makes each era something unique from the last. Just as in fashion you see trends change sometimes over night, but in the eyes of a decade, these changes are eras of fashion, just as the eras of music. Composers took the knowledge from previous composers and put their own ideas to use and sometimes created ground breaking movements. The
periods, a new, very distinctive style of music emerged. The Romantic Era Lasted from the year 1820 up until the year 1900. The Romantic Era consisted of composers taking a more unique and expressive style of music. Hector Berlioz, Fryderyck Chopin, and Robert Schumann are considered to be the most influential composers of the Romantic Era. Nationalism and Exoticism played a very big part of music expression during this period. Both, Art song and German Lieder music styles were invented and told stories
in the Classical Era. I do not believe that this is a piece from the 20/21st Century because doesn't fall into the many subcategories of the music of that period. This piece could not be from the “atonal phase” where the music avoids what is considered a tonal center. It could not be considered to a be a piece from modernism, populism, serialism, experimentalism, minimalism, or post modernism as it is structured and follows many of the characteristics of the Classical Period and Era. Listening to the
Elizabethan Era Music Music is present in every culture’s past, present, and future. It has been around since 500 B.C. and was especially important in the Elizabethan Era. There were reinventions of music as it was widespread and popular. Without this essential time in history, modern music may have been completely different from what we have today. This era brought new uses for music, styles of compositions, new instruments, and the uprising of popular composers. Many new music styles were
The Classical era was a very important time period where, new ideas and forms of music were created. The Classical era expanded from 1770 to 1820, and during that time many great composers rose including Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig Van Beethoven. A very important composer whose music is still heard today is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His fame and great works in music changed throughout his childhood, middle age, and his final years. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in
Introduction: The 1970s were an interesting era for rock music. It offered the genre a harder sound that was not prominent in the 1960s. This was due to the rise in hard rock, glam rock, and arena rock bands such as AC/DC, The Who, Van Halen, and Aerosmith. To go along with this transition in sound, the 1970s continued the experimental music scene that the 1960s created. Groups like Deep Purple, Electric Light Orchestra, and Pink Floyd (of course) helped progress rock music with their experimentation with song
The Romantic era of music was all about the music showing more emotion along with composers being more expressive with their work. During this era, the late 19th century, was when the sizes of orchestras became dramatically bigger along with the expansion of instruments used. In years past, concerts were generally for aristocrats. They paid for them and were the main audience. A lot of things changed thus for creating the Romantic era. Public concerts became a new thing during this era. The romantic