History of music

Music has evolved too many different forms that we recognize today. We trace this development throughout time. Beginning in the middle ages, we have seen advancement from the Gregorian chant all the way to the Jazz of the 20th century. The current events, politics, religion, technology and composers can shape musical eras during time. Here I will look at the middle ages, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic and twentieth century periods. I hope that a better understanding can be reached

Music has evolved too many different forms that we recognize today. We trace this development throughout time. Beginning in the middle ages, we have seen advancement from the Gregorian chant all the way to the Jazz of the 20th century. The current events, politics, religion, technology and composers can shape musical eras during time. Here I will look at the middle ages, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic and twentieth century periods. I hope that a better understanding can be reached to why

The new music was built out of materials already in existence: blues, rock’n’roll, folk music. But although the forms remained, something wholly new and original was made out of these older elements - more original, perhaps, than even the new musicians themselves yet realize. The transformation took place in 1966-7. Up to that time, the blues had been an essentially black medium. Rock’n’roll, a blues derivative, was rhythmic, raunchy, teen-age dance music. Folk music, old and modern, was popular

Rebecca McKenney History and Sociology of Rock Music Mrs. Trimble 29 August 2016 Critical Thinking #1 (2) Between the early nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, sociological changes helped create and popularize rock music. A major example of a sociological change is the transition of the African American status from slave to citizen. As a slave, the Africans naturally felt oppressed which contributed to the creation of call-and-response and work songs which had signifying lyrics to help get through

last paper which talked about a portion of Barry Gordy's background, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations and their start at Motown. How Motown was the first American music label owned by an African-American, the first music label to successfully market black artists to white mainstream audiences. How Motown was responsible for discovering, mentoring, and perfecting a lot of American popular music's most influential and successful artists and

combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity is music.” In the course of this work, I will describe how music informs the development of Christian worship throughout history and the kind of impact it has caused in the life of the worshipping community. Biblical narrative, also found in the Old Testament, includes great examples of the involvement of music within worship that indicates how Christian worship has evolved over time. In his gospel, Matthew

Introduction Gamelan is a term for various types of orchestra played in Indonesia. As Indonesia entails 17000 islands, there are many different styles of gamelan, and no gamelan orchestra is considered to be the same as another (See Y-S, 2000). The music of Bali - a Hindu island afloat in a Muslim sea - was described by the American composer Colin McPhee as the “stirring mystery of a thousand bells” (Gordon, 1994). Varieties of gamelan are distinguished through tunings, style, cultural context and

Wagner’s is difficult given that the music lies on the edge of what was common practice in the 19th century. The music does not easily organise itself into the neat forms that we recognise from the classical and baroque time periods, but instead goes beyond the confines of form and tonality that today’s listeners are not familiar with. This gives the music some unique qualities such as being unpredictable, unending, and for some, brings less attention to the music and more attention to the drama that

BRDPAT004 History of Music 1 Assignment The development of the suite in French keyboard and lute music during the 17th century Looking at the suite from a German perspective, it seems as if the French suite is less cohesive and refined as compared to the fixed structure of dances found in the German suite. The French suite is described as a ‘loose form’ as it is sometimes seen as a sequence of contrasting dances and other times as a series of dances in the same key. In early French suites it can

Classical Music: Is it Relevant or Not? Beethoven. Mozart. Chopin. Liszt. Handel. Bach. When one hears these names, what comes to mind? Classical music. What is classical music? According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, classical music is defined as “serious or conventional music that follow long established principles, more specifically, music written in the European tradition, when forms such as the symphony, concerto, and sonata were standardized”; but most people would associate it to background