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1150
Medieval (c.1150 - c.1400)
it is characterized by homophonic texture, or an obvious melody with accompaniment.
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1400
Renaissance (c.1400 - c.1600)
During the Renaissance period of music, roughly 1450-1600, polyphony was widely used. Early polyphony was based on a principal melody called cantus firmus, while in the 15th and 16th centuries, polyphony developed enormously and came to prevail in Western music. A wide variety of instruments proliferated, built in entire families and grouped together in minstrels’ chapters or bands, which reinforced or replaced the voices in the choir. -
Period: 1400 to
Reinassence music
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Baroque (c.1600 - c.1750)
Baroque music is a period or style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaCheA6Njc4 -
Classical (c.1750 - c.1830)
Classical music greatly emphasized homophonic melodies, meaning that there was a single melody that all the instruments played, instead of the layered melodies of the Baroque period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13m2fO7KTes -
Early Romantic (c.1830 - c.1860)
The Baroque era witnessed the creation of a number of musical genres which would maintain a hold on composition for years to come, yet it was the Classical period which saw the introduction of a form which has dominated instrumental composition to the present day: sonata form. -
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Classical
With it came the development of the modern concerto, symphony, sonata, trio and quartet to a new peak of structural and expressive refinement. If Baroque music is notable for its textural intricacy, then the Classical period is characterized by a near-obsession with structural clarity. -
Late Romantic (c.1860 - c.1920)
With the honourable exceptions of Brahms and Bruckner, composers of this period shared a general tendency towards allowing their natural inspiration free rein, often pacing their compositions more in terms of their emotional content and dramatic continuity rather than organic structural growth -
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Late Romantic
The eventual end of Romanticism came with the fragmentation of this basic style -
Post Great War Years, c.1920 - Present
The period since the Great War is undoubtedly the most bewildering of all, as composers have pulled in various apparently contradictory and opposing directions -
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Music from the war period
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Today`s music
So diverse are the styles adopted throughout the greater part of the present century that only by experimentation can listeners discover for themselves whether certain composers are to their particular taste or not.
