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Instrumental music
The Catholic church only allowed the organ liturgy and no other instruments.
Most instruments were only used in secular music.
Nobody wrote these compositions down, so we don´t have a faithfull record of what they were like -
Jan 9, 600
Gregorian chant
Between 7th and 9th, the roman Catholic church compiled its litusgical songs.We call this musical repertory: GREGORIAN CHANT -
Jul 24, 849
Secular vocal music
Secualr monophony appeared in around teh 9th century, but it was generally passed on orally, there are hardly records of it.
Who played secular music was called minstrels.
The songs of the minstrels were written in songbooks -
Oct 8, 864
Liturgical poliphony
A second voice was aded to plainsong and polyphony was born.
This new form of musical expression become more and more complex and reache it maximum level of sophistication and perfection in the 16th century -
Dec 4, 1023
Guido d´Arezzo
(992-1050)
Was a teacher in the cathedral school of Arezzo.
He created the four-line stave and gave the notes the names that we still use today -
Feb 8, 1483
Martin Luther
Was a german monge, that started the protestant reformation o his country. He was alsoa composer and a flautist. He created a repertoire of simple melodies in vernacular. -
Oct 4, 1491
Renaisse music
Was an influetian cultural movement. Belife humans were the cnter of interest. The reinasse also favoured the use of reasoning and not faith.
Was created during de 15th-17th centuries
Musician couldn´t use compositions from antiquity, because there wern´t any records of them. -
Feb 24, 1548
Dance teachers
Apperar during the renaisse.
Thet taught members of the court to dance , and they wrote manualsabout fashionable dances. -
Aug 12, 1548
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Was a spanish composer. 1587 Victoria became a master to the empress Maria de Austria De Madrid. He later worked as an organist at the convent of las descalzas reales. -
Aug 9, 1563
John Downland
Was an english composer and lutenist. YHe was one of the first composer to usemelody-dominated homophony and he´s famous forhis expresive songs for voice and lute -
Francesca Caccini
Was born in Florence,wrote 5 operas. It`s known because she was the first woman who wrote a opera -
Barroque music period
Started with the appererance od opera, it´s one of the most importants music periods for orchestra -
Antonio Vivaldi
Was a composer and priest from Venice. His most known and important composition is "the four seasons" -
Alberti Bass
A type of accompaniment created by Domenico Alberi start to be used. -
Important instruments created in the classical period
Piano-1700: Invented by Bartolomeo cristofori in Italy
French Horn
Clarinet-18th century -
Start of the classical period
The classical period of European music startedin 1730 between the early/late modern period -
Opera buffa
Originated in Naples at the start of the 18th century -
End of the Baroque period
Ende with the death of Johan Sebastian Bach -
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart
An important composer of the clasical period -
Beethoven
An important composer in the classical period -
Franz Joseph
An important composer of the classical period -
French revolution
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Frédéric Chopin
Was a polish composer and pianist. He started his professional career as a pianist in 1892. Most of his works c onsist in short pieces for piano -
Clara Schumann
Was a hugley talented German pianist, teacher and composer. His greatest achieve was to help his husband Robert Schumann -
End of the classical period
Thre classical period of WEuropean music ended in 1820 -
Symphonie Fantantastique
Hector Berlioz created. This is an important point in the Romantic period music because this Symphonia was the prototype of the Programme symphony -
Romantic ballet
The romantic balley was marked by the first Paris prformance of La Sylphide -
Ballet
The start of Romantic ballet was amrked by the first Paris performance of "La Sylphide" -
New musical instruments
Durind this century, a lot of new musical instruments were created some of them are:
-The bass clarinet
- The contrabassoon
-The english horn
-The saxophone
-The trombone
-The tuba
-And a lot more -
Zarzuela
Even thought it was created in the 17th century, some of it best works were composed in the 19th century -
Important musicians of the 20th century
Erik Saire: Was a frech composerr and pianist. He learnt to play the organ
Sofia Gubaidulina: Was born in the republic of Tartastan in Russia. She studied piano for composition in Kazan -
Verismo
Gianno Puccini created a new musical movement called Verismo -
New musical instruments of the 20th century
During the 20yh century a lot of new musical instruments were introduced:
-Theremin
-Ondes Martenot
-Synthesister
-Sampler
-Vibraphone -
musique concréte
Composer used sounds of their surrondings and modifieds them with the latest technology -
Electronic and electroacoustic music
Was produced entirely in a recording studio, using only sounds generated electronically -
Neoclassicism
Appeared afte rthe second world war.
Aimed to the retourn of classical aesthetics -
Aleatoric music
Appeared as a reaction to the rigid rules of the twelve-tone technique -
Minimal music
Aimed to create simpkle, dirct music with minimal resources -
Impressionism
Apeared at the end of the 19th century.
Focussed on evoking atmospheres -
Expressionism
Created at the end of the 19th century
Aimed for express inner conflicts, fears and irrational impulses
