Western Music History Timeline

Western Music History Timeline

By Ji Hoon Kim

Types of Western Ancient Music

Classical

Renaissance

Modern

Ancient

1750 ~ 1820

BC 1200 ~ AD 500

1400 ~ 1600

1900 ~ 1960

- Ancient Greece

- Ancient Rome

- Early Christian

Background

Musical Elements

Instruments

Famous Composers

Two Types of Ancient Music

Background

Important Events

- Haydn

- Mozart

- Beethoven

Dionysians

Appollonians

The Renaissance is the period of great artistic resurgance for all of Europe. During this time, art starts to break out of traditional church methods and styles and artists of all kinds started to compose and paint things that had never been imagined before.

- Ancient music is music that is developed in literature culture after a prehistoric music. Ancient western music is refers to music system that is developed from Greece and Rome. Ancienct music has a characteristic of using basic notes and scales. People predict that it is transmitted through oral or written systems.

A new rhythm figure is introduced for each new section, either an imitation point, a new line of text, or a new variation.

- Most of the bowed strings

- Most of the woodwinds

- Most of the brass instruments

- Most of the keyboard instruments

- Most of the guitar family

- Most of the percussion instruments

Rome defeated Greece and adopter their culture, especially musical culture.

BC 1000

Greek absorbed other musical elements from earlier cultures (made them more classical and romantic)

subjectivity, emotional abandoned, sensuality

Modern music is type of musics that we can see these days. Some musician historian consider the Modern Era to have ended in approximately 1930. It is the final developed music as time passed from Ancient Western music.

objectivity of expression, simplicity, clarity (liked Kithara, type of lyre)

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music. It encompasses a broad period from roughly the 11th century to the present day. The term "classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to distinctly "canonize", which is a metaphorical extension of religious concept and use it to develop the music.

Western Renaissance Music

Western Classical Music

Modern Western Music

Music of Ancient Rome

Music of Ancient Greece

Two Types of Renaissance Music

Musical Elements

Famous Composers

Musical Elements

Ancient Greek Composers

Instruments

- Athenaeus

- Limenius

- Mesomedes

- Rhythmic Complexity

- Fludity

- Hypnotic Repetition (sleepy repetition)

Secular Music

Sacred Music

Many rhythms at single movement. Different types of rhythm for each movement. Strong feeling of pulse.

- John Coolidge Adams

- Claude Bolling

- Elliot Cook Cartner Jr.

- Gordon Shi-wen Chin

Non religious music. This was some of the first music ever made that was not created purely to praise the gods.

Music controlled, performed by and written for the church. The songs were performed in cathedrals and praised gods or told stories of their great feats.

- Instruments that are used in band music

- Woodwinds (flutes, horns)

- Percussion Instruments

- Stringed instruments (piano, hapsichord)

1600

1820

500

1900

BC1200

Citations

Romantic

Baroque

Medieval

1820 ~ 1900

500 ~ 1400

1600 ~ 1750

Instruments

Two Types of Medieval Music

Background

Music Elements

Genres

Cantus Firmus

Organo

Unity of rhythm over a whole movement. Strong feeling of pulse. Movement was defined by certain rhythmic pattern in particular metres.

- Invented Bass Tuba

- Oboe is modified by Charles Triebert

- More keys were added to woodwinds by Theobald Boehm

Pre-existing melody before the harmony. Basic melody in polyphonic genre of the music.

Medieval music starts right after the Roman empire collapsed. It is very hard to seperate the medieval era and Renaisaunce era. At the beginning of medieval era, the genre of the music was monophonic, but later at the end of medieval, it changed to polyphonic genre.

- Opera

- Cantata

- Oratorio

- Concerto

- Sonata

Romantic music is a term denoting an era of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century. It was related to Romanticism, the European artistic and literary movement that arose in the second half of the 18th century, and Romantic music in particular dominated the Romantic movement in Germany.

Plainchant melody with one or more voices added. The plainchant melody being the bases, the added voice forms a harmony. Both of the melody are having same texts and are in parallel motion.

The Baroque Era was a new movement in art which introduced a whole new style to art and music all over the world. The general style was one of bold, clear and easily interpreted detail.

Western Baroque Music

Influences of Medieval Music

Western Romantic Music

Famous Composers

Medieval Music Exmaple

Musical Elements Used

Musical Elements

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Two Types of Baroque Music

Famous Composers

Free, fluid rhythms for sacred music; dance rhyth, used for secular music

- Vivaldi

- Handel

- Bach

Use of speed fluctuations and cross rhythm tend to weaken the barline, resulting in softer pulse.

Foreign Influence

- The crusades and Arab love songs

- Middle Ages culture change

- The ideals of courtly love

- The music and songs of troubadours and minstrels

- The patronage of Medieval nobles and women including Eleanor of Aquitaine

Traditional Enlgish influence

- The growth of Christianity in the Dark Ages leading to the introduction of secular music

- The stories and legends of the English, Welsh and Scottish bards

- The ideals of courtly love

- The poets and authors of the era including Geoffrey Chaucer

- The music developed by the Medieval waits

- Franz Schuber

- Richard Wagner

Fugue

Concerto Grosso

A polyphonic composition that based on a main theme that is called a subject

An orchestra arrangement in which a few soloist players are backed up by a large group of other players called tutti