Music history

By dd227
  • Harp
    15,000 BCE

    Harp

    Originating in Ancient Egypt, this is a stringed instrument in which the resonator or belly is perpendicular or nearly so to the plane of the strings
  • Drums
    5500 BCE

    Drums

    Originating in the Americas, this instrument is played with wooden sticks and hollow cylinders
  • Cymbals
    2000 BCE

    Cymbals

    Originating in Asia, this is a percussion instrument consisting of a circular flat or concave metal plate that is struck with a drumstick
  • Tambourine
    1700 BCE

    Tambourine

    Originating in Ancient Egypt, this is a shallow handheld drum, played by stroking or shaking the jingles to striking it sharply with the hand or stick
  • Trumpet
    1500 BCE

    Trumpet

    Originating in Ancient Egypt, this instrument is a long slender metal tube with three valves
  • Maracas
    500 BCE

    Maracas

    Originating in West Africa, this is a hand percussion instrument usually played in pairs and common in Caribbean, Latin American and South American music
  • Xylophone
    800

    Xylophone

    Originating in Southeast Asia in the 9th century, this is a percussion instrument made of wooden bars with resonators underneath
  • Recorder
    1388

    Recorder

    Originating in Germany, this is a wooden or plastic musical instrument in the shape of a pipe
  • Violin
    1500

    Violin

    Originating in Italy, This instrument has a hollow wooden body and four strings
  • Viola
    1550

    Viola

    Originating in Northern Italy, this is a stringed musical instrument, the tenor of the violin family
  • Baroque period

    Baroque is a western style of music, architecture, dance, painting, poetry and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century up until the 1750s. It used contrast, movement, exuberant detail, deep color, grandeur, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe.
  • Bassoon

    Bassoon

    Originating in France, this is a woodwind instrument that produces sound in a low range using a double reed
  • Oboe

    Oboe

    Originating in France, this is an instrument in the shape of a long slender tube, widening out into a bell shape at the end. It originated in the mid 17th century.
  • Cello

    Cello

    Originating in Northern Italy, this is a four string instrument, similar to a violin
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach was the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elisabeth Lammerhirt. Ambrosius was a string player employed by the town council and the ducal court of Eisenach. Bach started education in 1692 and did well, despite all of his absences. Nothing of his musical education is definitively known, though he may have picked up the rudiments of string playing from his father and also no doubt attended the Georgenkirche, where Johann Christoph Bach was organist. He died on July 28th, 1750.
  • Clarinet

    Clarinet

    Originating in Germany, this instrument is a cylinder tube ending in a flared bell stage
  • The Four Seasons

    This composition is a part of the Baroque period and was composed by Antonio Vivaldi. It's one of his best known works and was composed from 1718-1720 and only published in 1725.
  • Classical period

    This was an era of classical music that lasted from roughly 1750 to the 1820s. It has more lighter, clearer, than Baroque music but has more varying use of musical form. It makes use of style galant which emphasizes light elegance in place of Baroque's dignified seriousness and impressive grandeur.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    He was born to a family of good standing which included architects and bookbinders. His mother was born from a middle class family active in local administration. He had musical talent at a very young age, at 4 he was composing short pieces. Before he was 6, they took him to Munich to play at the bararian court and a few months later to Vienna to play. He died on December 5th, 1791.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    He was born into a family of musicians in Germany and by 11, he left school to take care of the family and by 18 he was the breadwinner. He later became deaf but this did not stop his ability to compose music. He's best known for many of his most famous pieces—including the Eroica Symphony (1805), Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (1808), Symphony No. 6 in F Major (1808), and Symphony No. 7 in A Major (1813). He died on March 26th, 1827.
  • Romanticism

    This was an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It's purpose was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity, imagination, and appreciation of nature in society and culture during the age of enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Frédéric Chopin

    Born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, he was born near Warsaw, Duchy of Warsaw on March 1st, 1810. His father was a Frenchman from Lorraine who emigrated to Poland at the age of 16. 6 months after his birth, his family moved to Warsaw, where his father acquired a post teaching French at the Warsaw Lyceum.
  • Für Elise

    This composition is a part of the Classical period and was composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven. It is one of his most popular compositions. It was not published until 1867 when it was discovered 40 years after he had died.
  • Frenchhorn

    Frenchhorn

    Originating in Germany, this instrument has 12 feet of narrow tubing wound into a circle
  • Accordion

    Accordion

    Originating in Berlin, this is a portable wind instrument having a large bellows for forcing air through
  • Nocturnes, Op. 9

    These are romantic era compositions composed by Frédéric Chopin between 1831 and 1832. These were his first published set of nocturnes, the second one being one of his most famous works.
  • Saxophone

    Saxophone

    Originating in Paris, this instrument is a single reed woodwind and has a conical body
  • Acoustic Guitar

    Acoustic Guitar

    Originating in Spain, this is an instrument played with strings and has a hollow body and long neck.
  • Bass guitar

    Bass guitar

    Originating in Washington, this is a musical instrument that produces tones in the low pitched range C2-C4
  • Bagpipe

    Bagpipe

    Originating in Egypt, this is a wind instrument consisting of 2 or more single or double reed pipes the reeds being set in motion by wind fed by arm pressure or an animal skin