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Today, music is very important. Classical led to jazz, blues, rock, and then hip hop. Popular music became the dominant style of music and is very different than original music.
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This is the era where composers wanted their music to touch the listener. They wanting to create feeling and emotion. Musicians began to make a living on their own.
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This era was when composers really became important, creating a technique of musical notation similar to the one we use today. Piano was invented and became primary keyboard instrument.
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This era was where famous composers like Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi were born. Instruments began to be used in churches and with the invention of the printing press composers could share their music and write with a more similar music style.
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This period known as the "rebirth." Music began to be broken down into two groups, sacred and secular. Musicians and composers made a by having patronages.
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In this era music was very simple. The use of instruments was frowned on by the Catholic Church who ran things at this time. This was also the beginning of written music by hand.
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This time period refers to music of ancient civilization, Greece and Rome. No written forms of music but certain music was played.
